Changing the state's bail laws is an "ongoing process" that needs to be addressed in the coming weeks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday in his budget address. 

That Cuomo mentioned the bail law, which has stirred controversy among law enforcement officials across New York in recent months, is significant: The bail law was first included in the 2019 budget agreement. And the governor raised the possibility of altering it in the one due on March 31. 

"Reform is an ongoing process," Cuomo said. "It's not that you reform a system once and you walk away. You make a change in a system, it has consequences and then you have to respond to those consequences."

"We need to respond to the facts, not the politics," he said.

It's not yet clear what this could mean, and Cuomo did not go into specifics. 

Cuomo had previously suggested he would support changing the measure, but was criticized by some lawmakers for not addressing the issue in his State of the State earlier this month.

Some lawmakers, both Republicans and increasingly Democrats, have called for changes that would allow a judge to determine if a person is too dangerous to be released pending trial. But supporters of overhauling the state’s criminal justice law system argue that provision would mean more people of color kept in jail while white defendants are free.  

Cuomo said he wants to discuss the issue "intelligently, rationally and in a sober way."

A Siena College poll released on Tuesday morning found a majority of New York voters believe the law is bad for New York, a reverse from less than a year ago.