Idaho general fund spending
General Fund original appropriations back to FY2006, and two years of actual state spending by agency (General Fund and All Funds), from the Legislative Services Office's annual Legislative Fiscal Report.
Publisher
- Organization
- Idaho Legislative Services Office
- Publisher’s dataset
- Idaho Legislative Fiscal Report, General Fund History and Agency Spending
- File or API used
- https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/budget/publications/Legislative-Fiscal-Report/2026/Legislative%20Fiscal%20Report.pdf
- Retrieval script
scripts/fetch-lso-general-fund.py- Methodology
- https://legislature.idaho.gov/lso/bpa/
Coverage
- Geography
- Idaho (statewide)
- Time coverage
- FY2006-FY2027 (appropriations); FY2024-FY2025 (actual spending)
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- May 22, 2026
- Retrieved
- September 8, 2026
- License
- The compiled file on this page is CC BY 4.0. The underlying records: Public domain. State of Idaho government work.
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| General Fund original appropriations | Original General Fund appropriation enacted for the fiscal year, as printed in the Legislative Fiscal Report's Twenty-Two Year History table. Not actual spending. | usd millions |
| General Fund actual spending | Actual General Fund expenditure for the fiscal year, statewide total, on the Legislature's budgetary basis. Source: Legislative Fiscal Report, General Fund Three-Year Summary by Agency, Statewide Total Actual column. | usd |
| State spending by agency (All Funds, actual) | Actual expenditure by agency, all funds (General, dedicated, and federal), on the Legislature's budgetary basis. Source: Legislative Fiscal Report, All Funds Three-Year Summary by Agency, Actual column. | usd |
Caveats
- general_fund_appropriations is the 'Total Gen Fund' column of the 2026 Legislative Fiscal Report's Twenty-Two Year History table, in millions of dollars as the source prints it (unit usd_millions). It is the original appropriation enacted into law for each fiscal year, not actual spending; FY2026 and FY2027 are appropriations for years not yet fully executed as of retrieval.
- spending_by_agency and general_fund_spending are two years only (FY2024 from the 2025 Legislative Fiscal Report, FY2025 from the 2026 edition), because each report's own three-year summary tables carry only one year of actual data; pulling an additional year would require an additional prior-year report edition.
- spending_by_agency's 'Actual' figures are the state's budgetary-basis actual expenditure against appropriation across General, dedicated, and federal funds ('All Funds'), not the GAAP modified-accrual figure the ACFR reports; see the disagreement recorded against government.spending_total in data/registry/transparent-idaho-acfr.json.
- Agency names are the report's own labels, including its comma-inverted style (e.g. 'Correction, Department of').
- 'Total <function>' subtotal rows and the 'Statewide Total:' row from the three-year summary tables are excluded from spending_by_agency; the Statewide Total for All Funds Actual is reported in the puller's own printed output and in transparent-idaho-acfr's disagreements entry, not as an observation here, to avoid defining government.spending_total in two datasets.
Pages built on this dataset
Downloads
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Idaho Legislative Fiscal Report, General Fund History and Agency Spending”, compiled from Idaho Legislative Services Office, Idaho Legislative Fiscal Report, General Fund History and Agency Spending. Retrieved September 8, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/lso-general-fund/. CC BY 4.0.
Cite Idaho Legislative Services Office directly for the figures themselves.
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