What's next? End-of-session scramble begins next week

There's about a month left until lawmakers are scheduled to end this year's session.

Good afternoon — it’s Friday and the day after the budget passed.

In today’s CapCon:

• The state budget passed overnight Thursday. We are done!

• Lawmakers now have about a month left for the rest of their priorities. Here’s some of what to expect.

• The Legislature is back to its regular business next week, including a joint public hearing and a full slate of committee meetings.

Names in today’s CapCon: Julia Salazar, Gustavo Rivera, Robert L. Brooks, Messiah Nantwi, Zohran Mamdani, Christopher Ryan, James Skoufis

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Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Democrats after the budget passed Thursday night (NY Senate Media Services)

💰 We’re finally done with the state budget

Both chambers of the state Legislature wrapped up voting on the remaining state budget bills overnight Thursday and have since departed Albany for the most part.

Over the last few days, I’ve told you about what’s in the five policy-focused bills in the final budget. Here are links to those posts if you missed them:

• What’s in TED, PPGG and HMH

• What’s in ELFA

• What’s in the Revenue bill

The five spending-focused bills are more difficult to read through and, frankly, my eyes need a break. I’ll keep combing through them but here are links to each one in the meantime:

• State Operations

• Capital Projects

• Legislature and Judiciary

• Aid to Localities

• Debt Service (Passed in March)

It’s a state budget with a lot in it but one that may have a short shelf life, as I wrote over on the Times Union’s website today. (Free link)

It’s also one that benefits incumbent lawmakers and statewide elected officials, as the Times Union’s Raga Justin reports. Part of that includes changes to the state's public campaign finance laws that will allow more donations to qualify for matching funds.

Senate Corrections Chair Julia Salazar (Will Waldron/Times Union)

🕛 What to expect over the next month

The Legislature now has about a month left to plot out their own priorities before session ends in June.

The list of what they want to do is long. But the amount of time they have to do it is not. If the budget had been approved by the April 1 deadline, they would’ve had the last five weeks to figure that out as well.