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NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 25, 2019

Stewart-Cousins and Heastie Announce Joint Legislative Schedule For Adopting SFY 2019-20 Budget


Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, Senate Finance Committee Chair Liz Krueger and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair Helene E. Weinstein today announced an agreement on a joint legislative budget schedule that sets deadlines for the adoption of an on-time state budget.

The agreed-to legislative budget schedule for 2019 is as follows:

February 28 (on or before) Senate & Assembly Economic / Revenue Forecast Released
February 28 Joint Revenue Forecasting Conference
March 1 (on or before) Consensus Revenue Forecast Report
March 13 Senate & Assembly One House Budget Actions
March 13 Joint Senate & Assembly Budget Conference Committees Commence
March 25 Joint Conference Committees End
March 26-29 Joint Legislative Budget Bills Taken Up by Senate & Assembly