Albany officials: State budget will be late

(AP) - Legislative officials say a $124 billionstate budget due at midnight won't be passed until later this week,creating the latest state budget in four years. The Assembly wasn't expected to vote

News 12 Staff

Mar 31, 2008, 7:02 PM

Updated 6,097 days ago

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(AP) - Legislative officials say a $124 billionstate budget due at midnight won't be passed until later this week,creating the latest state budget in four years.
The Assembly wasn't expected to vote on its first budget billsuntil late Monday night and all the bills won't likely be doneuntil Wednesday, said two officials in the Democrat-controlledAssembly. In the Republican-controlled Senate, budget bills aren'texpected to be passed until Thursday or Friday, according to aSenate official.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because theirleaders hadn't conceded that the 2008-09 budget will be late.