NY Budget-Legislature – North Country Public Radio AP Briefs

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Chanting protesters continue to flood New York’s Capitol, briefly disrupting the Assembly as it debated proposed cuts to higher education and health care programs.

Disabled advocates disrupted the Democrat-led Assembly for about an hour on Tuesday. They chanted loudly as lawmakers sought to debate and pass the chamber’s budget proposal.

The Republican-led Senate, which wasn’t disrupted, ended its debate and passed its budget bill earlier than the Assembly.

The delay in the Assembly meant the first meeting of legislative leaders to begin negotiations between the two houses could be delayed until Wednesday.