N.Y. Legislative Law § 53

§ 53. Budget review process. Within ten days after submission of the\nbudget by the governor pursuant to article seven of the constitution,\nthe temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly\nshall jointly or separately promulgate a schedule for the specific\nbudget-related actions of each house, including but not limited to the\nfollowing:\n 1. a preliminary response by the houses to the governor's budget\nsubmission;\n 2. fiscal committee hearings on the budget, hearings with heads of\ndepartments and divisions pursuant to section three of article seven of\nthe constitution, and other actions which may be taken by the fiscal\ncommittees, which shall be designed to inform the public of the contents\nof the governor's budget, policy issues relating to such budget and such\nother information as the senate and the assembly shall jointly or\nseparately determine. Such hearings and other actions may be conducted\njointly or separately;\n 3. a date for the production of a forecast or forecasts on receipts\nwhich shall constitute an evaluation developed by the fiscal committees\nof each house, jointly or separately, of the receipts likely to be\navailable to the state absent passage of any new revenue measures. Such\nforecast or forecasts shall also contain an evaluation of the receipts\nlikely to be available to the state upon passage of any revenue measure\nsubmitted and proposed by the governor pursuant to section three of\narticle seven of the state constitution; and\n 4. the dates for public hearings required by the provisions of section\nthirty-two-a of this chapter.\n