NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 27, 2012

Silver and Skelos Announce Joint
Legislative Budget Schedule


Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos today announced an agreement on a joint legislative budget schedule that, for the first time, sets deadlines that lead to an early adoption of a state budget.

The agreed-to legislative budget schedule for 2012 is as follows:

On or before
February 29 Joint Revenue Forecasting Conference
February 29 Senate/Assembly Fiscal Committee Economic & Revenue Reports Released
March 1 Revenue Consensus Report
March 12 Senate & Assembly budget actions
March 13 Joint Senate/Assembly budget conference committees commence
March 19-20 Final Report of Joint Conference Committee
March 19-22 Joint Legislative budget bills taken up by Senate & Assembly