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NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
February 12, 2015

Skelos and Heastie Announce Joint
Legislative Budget Schedule


Senate Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos, Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie, Senate Finance Chair John A. DeFrancisco, and Assembly Ways and Means Committee Chair Herman D. Farrell, Jr. today announced an agreement on a joint legislative budget schedule that sets deadlines for the adoption of a fifth consecutive on-time state budget.

The agreed-to legislative budget schedule for 2015 is as follows:

February 26 (on or before)
Senate & Assembly Economic / Revenue Reports Released
February 26
Joint Revenue Forecasting Conference
March 1 (on or before)
Revenue Consensus Report
March 12
Senate & Assembly Budget Actions
March 12
Joint Senate & Assembly Budget Conference Committees Commence
March 19
Final Report of the Joint Conference Committee
March 23-26
Joint Legislative Budget Bills Taken Up by Senate & Assembly