NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
March 21, 2019
Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Carl Heastie Announce Agreement on Budget Conference Committee Table Targets
Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today announced they have reached a consensus on table targets for the individual budget conference committees.
These funds will be used as the basis for budget negotiations among the committees and represent real progress towards the enactment of an on-time budget. The table target amounts for individual budget conference committees include the following:
| $20 million | Mental Hygiene |
| $50 million | Education |
| $10 million | General Government |
| $10 million | Economic Development |
| $30 million | Health |
| $5 million | Transportation |
| $55 million | Higher Education |
| $50 million | Human Services |
| $15 million | Public Protection |
| $10 million | Environmental, Housing & Agriculture |
| $20 million | General Conference |
| $275 million | Total |