54-A - Scheduling of legislative consideration of budget bills. - New York Statutes

§ 54-a. Scheduling of legislative consideration of budget bills. The legislature shall by concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly prescribe by joint rule or rules a procedure for: 1. establishing a joint budget conference committee or joint budget conference committees within ten days following the submission of the budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, to consider and reconcile such budget resolution or budget bills as may be passed by each house; and 2. promulgating a schedule within ten days following the submission of the budget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution, for considering and acting upon such budget appropriation and related bills which shall include: (a) dates for those actions required to be taken by the legislature pursuant to section fifty-three of this chapter; (b) dates for public hearings on submissions by the governor as required by section thirty-two-a of this chapter; (c) a date for the establishment of joint budget conference committee or committees; and (d) a date by which such joint budget conference committee or committees shall issue their final reports.