The state uses the revenue it collects to provide various services to the state's citizens. Buying those services through vendors, paying state employees, or transferring money to local governments and schools results in expenditures. The state tracks these expenditures in the broad categories shown in the pie chart. The table below shows expenditures for state fiscal year 2007-08 by department in the budget format with a column removing transfers. Some items (such as depreciation and certain higher education activities) are not budgeted, and therefore, total expenditures shown in the pie chart are greater than the amount shown in the table.

The General Assembly and the Governor are responsible for appropriating state funds to various departments and programs.

For more information about state expenditures or appropriations, see:

• The State's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
• The Long Appropriations Bill 
• The Joint Budget Committee's Appropriations Report  
• The Joint Budget Committee's Budget in Brief