When to expect state budget bills and a floor vote this week

And a hearing in response to the death of Robert L. Brooks has now been scheduled.

Good afternoon — it’s Monday and Cinco de Mayo.

In today’s CapCon:

• We still don’t have any budget bills but that could change tonight or tomorrow.

• But we did learn more Monday on items within the budget, including the human services COLA, power for Hochul to cut spending and changes at prisons.

• The Legislature has scheduled a hearing in response to the death of Robert Brooks at Marcy Correctional Facility in December.

• A top priority for environmental advocates is set to move through a committee this week that tees it up for a floor vote.

• This Week in New York History: Carnegie Hall and the New York Herald.

Names in today’s CapCon: Kathy Hochul, Michael Gianaris, Carl E. Heastie, Andrea Stewart-Cousins, Ashley Ranslow, Health Mulligan, Mario Cilento, Robert Brooks, Messiah Nantwi,

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(Will Waldron/Times Union)

💰 Still no budget bills but unemployment insurance debt deal struck

I feel like if I tell you at this point when lawmakers and other folks at the Capitol are expecting budget bills, I might as well be throwing darts with a blindfold on.