State lawmakers are heading home for a long Easter weekend still with no budget, but some progress.

With changes to the state’s discovery laws, or how evidence is shared between the prosecution and the defense, largely wrapped up, focus is shifting to the remaining budget items.

Lawmakers passed a budget extender to keep state government funded through Wednesday, but members will be back on Tuesday. Of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s four main policy proposals, two are now said to have been boiled down to conceptual agreements: discovery and a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in schools.

Left on the list for discussion through the weekend before members return next week are changes to standards for involuntary commitment of mental ill individuals and a potential restriction on wearing face masks, and that’s before even getting to other policy items and fiscal matters like Hochul's proposal for rebate checks.

State Sen. Pat Fahy told Spectrum News 1 that conversations are moving along when it comes to involuntary commitment.

“We are definitely in a better place when it comes to the language with involuntary confinement, and giving tools to our social workers, our community groups, and law enforcement,” she said.

Shrouded in more uncertainty is the governor’s push for face mask legislation. Hochul is pushing to designate the crime of "masked harassment," or the wearing of a face mask in the commission of a crime.

Deputy Senate Majority Leader Mike Gianaris said the proposal is hitting roadblocks, with significant resistance from those who have raised objections surrounding religion, and concerns related to immigration and on-campus protests in light of Trump administration policies.

“People have expressed concerns," he said of the Senate. "I think a number of people in the Assembly have expressed concerns, maybe those concerns can be resolved and maybe not, we’ll find out in the next few days."

With the logjam on discovery seeming to have cleared, lawmakers expressed optimism that it could soon be time to put the budget in the rear view and focus on the business of legislating and passing bills, now compressed into a period of just over a month before session wraps up in June.

“Discovery was always the big thing that was going to hold up everything else and now that that’s on the way to being finished, hopefully we’ll be able to do the, the rest of it fairly quickly,” Gianaris said.

How quickly?

“Hopefully that progress will result in a concluded budget in the next week or so,” he said.

State Sen. Liz Krueger, tasked with contextualizing the extender on the Senate floor, also put a conclusion next week within reach.

“If I’m in an optimistic mood, we could come back to do this extender next week and work on budget bills at the same time and even in some world complete budget bills before the end of next week,” she said. “Having gone on too long, I am quasi optimistic we could be coming to a conclusion on our budget.”

Kreuger later clarified that estimate would require a message of necessity from the governor, which circumvents the normally required three days for a bill to age.

Lawmakers conferenced following session and said they were primarily briefed on the substance of the discovery law agreement as well as involuntary commitment, and changes to campaign finance rules.