Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are just hours away from missing their midnight deadline for the state budget.

“We may or may not make April 1,” the governor said on March 28 on Fox 5.

Still up in the air are deals on policy items involving mental health, criminal justice and new taxes to help pay for future MTA projects.

“On harassment while wearing a mask, something that is going to be subject to a lot of discussion over the next couple of days,” state Sen. Zellnor Myrie, a Democrat from Brooklyn, said.

Other issues that are still up for grabs are: a public mask ban, changing involuntary commitment standards, approving new taxes to fund billions of dollars in MTA projects and amending how prosecutors turn over evidence in court cases, known as discovery.

“You had to turn over everything related to a case within a very short window, it used to be that, ‘OK judge, well we’re gonna go forward with discovery’ when we knew the case wasn’t going to settle,” Mary Pat Donnelly, attorney for the Democratic Rensselaer County District, said.

They’re backed by the state’s district attorneys association.

“I don’t have the capacity to dig and dig and dig with the 1,000s of cases that come through the office. What I can do is my very best. I can try to find what I think is going to matter,” Donnelly said.

Open negotiations mean more time for requests.

Mayor Eric Adams wants Hochul to include his idea of eliminating the personal income tax for poor New Yorkers and he backs her childcare voucher plan.

Meanwhile, NYPD officers hope Hochul agrees to a plan that would make their retirement benefits sweeter.

“Our members right now in the police department are barely getting days off, barely getting meals, not having a quality of life with their families. So new candidates are looking at that ‘well which department am I gonna go to?’ And they’re choosing other departments,” Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry said.

Included in both the state Senate and Assembly’s one house budgets, if approved cops hired after July 2009 could retire after 20 years on the job, instead of the current 22 years.

“We do need more cops. There are actually less cops on Staten Island than there was in 1965 if you can believe that!” state Sen. Jessica Scarcella-Spanton, a Staten Island Democrat, said. “We want to make sure that this is a job that people want to grow in and stay in.”

With mayoral candidates promising to hire more officers, one beat cop — whose last name NY1 is withholding upon request — says Hochul must green-light the change now.

“With less of us out there with more responsibilities, mired with paperwork with every job we respond to, we have to do at least some kind of form, it takes time away, response times get higher,” Kevin, the officer, said.

On Tuesday, lawmakers are on track to approve a temporary measure to keep the government running and state workers paid.

“The governor has her own priorities, and she has very clear principles on what these policies must look like when they’re adopted. She wants to make sure they’re delivering for New Yorkers and keeping New Yorkers safe,” NYS Division of the Budget director Blake Washington said on Monday.