Catalog of Budget Line Items — what each appropriation line was given
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Source. Ohio Legislative Service Commission, Catalog of Budget Line Items, education volume
(EDU — Department of Education and Workforce, formerly Department of Education).
Type. Primary source, published by the legislature’s own fiscal agency.
Location.
https://www.lsc.ohio.gov/assets/organizations/legislative-service-commission/files/{year}-catalog-of-budget-line-items-edu.pdf,
indexed at /budget/catalog-of-budget-line-items. 200 KB–750 KB per edition.
Editions held: eighteen. 2006, and 2008 through 2025, less 2012. There is no 2007 edition — a genuine 404. There is no 2012 edition either, which is less obvious: that URL resolves and returns a PDF, and it is the 2011 document byte for byte. See One document, two names below.
What one entry contains. Per appropriation line item: the fund, the six-digit line number, the name, six fiscal years of money with each year labeled, the authorizing act, and a prose statement of what the line pays for.
Why this is the source the appropriation series needed Contents
It carries the enacted appropriation and the actual expenditure in adjacent labeled columns. That is the defect that reverted the greenbook workbook attempt: there, the variant carrying actuals superseded the enacted column and stated the enacted figure nowhere, so a whole biennium produced zero appropriation rows without failing. Here the two claims sit side by side, each under its own heading.
It reaches both bienniums the greenbook route cannot. FY2006-07, whose greenbook has no line-item table at all, is in the 2006 edition. FY2012-13, whose two workbook variants LSC serves as one file, is in the 2011 edition.
It names the act. A Legal Basis line gives the sections and act authorizing the line this
biennium and the act that originally established it — Sections 265.10, 265.210 … of H.B. 166 of the 133rd G.A. (originally established by H.B. 66 of the 126th G.A.). All 2,008 extracted line
items carry one.
The two shapes, and why they are not interchangeable Contents
An edition published at the start of a biennium carries four Actual columns and two
Appropriation — the enacted amounts. An edition published a year later carries five Actual
and one Adj. Approp.: the biennium’s first year has closed into an actual, and the year
remaining is stated as adjusted.
| Editions | |
|---|---|
Enacted (Appropriation ×2) | 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2025 |
Adjusted (Adj. Approp. ×1) | 2010, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024 |
An adjusted appropriation is the enacted figure revised by whatever has happened since. Reading one as the other puts a mid-course number where the enacted one belongs — a plausible figure, in the right year, from the wrong claim. The extract keeps three kinds and never two.
So the enacted figure for any biennium is in exactly one edition, the one published when it was enacted. That is what makes a continuous series possible: GRF 200550 Foundation Funding has one enacted appropriation per fiscal year from FY2006 to FY2027, each from a single edition.
One document, two names Contents
The 2012 URL resolves, returns application/pdf, and is the 2011 edition byte for byte. The
decision record that scoped this work counted nineteen editions because it verified existence by
status code and content type; only a digest catches this. It is the same pathology
the-greenbook-series found in the workbooks — LSC serving one file under two names — and wiring
both would have double-counted every FY2012 and FY2013 enacted appropriation under two vintages
that are one document.
What it is not Contents
Not a record of what one act appropriated. It is a standing reference restated each edition, so
a figure in the 2019 edition is that line’s history as of 2019. It complements the greenbooks
rather than replacing them, and the extract keeps edition as a column for exactly that reason.
Not the pre-2002 record. The earliest edition reaches FY2002. The Foundation Program era, DeRolph I and the equal yield formula still need the session laws.
Not per-district. These are appropriation lines, statewide. Nothing here says what a district received.