The latest audits of the Legislature’s finances are available, revealing some basic financial information and little else amid heightened public interest in the inner workings of the House and Senate.
Fiscal year 2025 audits for the House, Senate and joint legislative accounts were posted to the Legislature’s website quietly in recent weeks, close on the heels of fiscal 2024 audits that were finalized in July.
The documents provide a basic accounting of money in and money out, reporting how much each branch had available, how much it spent and how much it carried forward into the new year (a power not available to most parts of state government). There’s no breakdown of what the money was spent on, nothing per member or per office, and the financial-statement audits differ from the type of performance audit that Auditor Diana DiZoglio and the Legislature have been at odds over for years…