Both houses of the state’s legislature have come up with competing budgets to the governor’s, and one of them, or more likely a combination of them all, has to be passed by the looming deadline. District 99 Assemblyman, Democrat Chris Eachus, covering Stony Point and portions of Orange County, says the Assembly’s version of the budget differs in several ways from the governor’s spending plan…
38th District State Senator, Republican Bill Weber, covering most of Rockland, voted against the Senate’s version of the budget…
Both proposed spending plans rejected the governor’s housing mandates for the suburbs and upstate regions, but instead offered $500 million incentives to encourage new housing developments. The budget deadline is April first.