After the late budget ate up three more weeks of session than it was scheduled to, New York lawmakers are feeling the pressure to bring hundreds of bills across the finish line with fewer than 20 days on this year's legislative calendar.

The Assembly added three days to its schedule through June 17 because policy issues dragged the budget five weeks past its deadline. The extra three weeks of session days that went to the budget process are about a fifth of the total time that lawmakers spend in Albany for the year.

"It's very frustrating for the budget to take so long because it's less time to pass other bills," Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon said. "And many of us have other bills we want to get passed that are also very important."

The Senate does not plan to extend its legislative calendar.

Lawmakers typically pass between 600 and 800 bills during the state's six-month legislative session, which is done in just over 60 days of voting on the floor. The Senate and Assembly have separately cleared hundreds of bills this year, but both houses have only adopted 153 bills so far this session.

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins said the smaller chamber didn't need an extension, but was tight-lipped with reporters about her priorities over the next few weeks.

"We will be fine," she told reporters Tuesday in Albany. "We will get everything done that we can get done."

The leader said Senate Democrats are committed to re-passing environmental bills like the NY Heat Act to limit new natural gas hookups and a bill to limit plastic packaging and waste.

Stewart-Cousins added she is confident they'll address the conference's top concerns, but would not specify what those are.

"It's not this area or that area, it depends on where the support is for a variety of things," she said.

But legislators and advocates have their sights set on a host of priorities over the next few weeks, including a slate of prison and sentencing reforms and their own affordability agenda after the budget.

Sen. Brian Kavanagh told Spectrum News 1 he's up for the challenge to pass the Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act to make it easier for churches and houses of worship to build low-cost housing units.

There's a push for a hearing on the measure to help it gain momentum before the Senate's last day on June 12.

"That's the last day of session, and I think it will be a bit of a scramble, but I think we have enough time to get the important things done," he said.

There's also a push to reform the state's bottle deposit system — a fight that's dragged on for years.

Sponsor Assemblywoman Deborah Glick said at a rally Monday that advocates need to be bold and loud to garner attention in a short amount of time.

"We have a shortened legislative time frame because of the late budget, so in order to elevate this, we need you to be visible and vocal," she said to a cheering crowd of supporters in the Capitol.

And lawmakers continue to lead the charge for bills to counter President Donald Trump's deportation agenda and recent actions detaining people with legal status. 

Advocates are yelling louder for two bills to strengthen protections for immigrants.

The New York For All Act would prohibit state police from working with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement or federal border patrol agents, and other state resources from being used to aid the federal agency. The Dignity Not Detention Act to end contracts between ICE and county jails to prevent their use as immigration detention facilities in the state.

"There is a new pressure because of what the federal government has been doing," sponsor Assemblywoman Karines Reyes said Tuesday. "Four weeks, I think, is plenty of time if there is the political will."

Reyes said the political climate is changing, and New York leaders have to take action this session.

They represent a few out of hundreds of proposals lawmakers are in a rush to get to the floor in just four weeks. 

However, Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz said voters will remember what legislative leaders and Gov. Kathy Hochul decide to prioritize and sign into law.

"You don't stand with us, we don't forget, our children don't forget, our tías don't forget," she said Tuesday. "Every voter will not forget...anyone who can vote is not going to forget because for every single one of these folks here who has disappeared, they have a loved one here left behind who is not going to forget, who will remember who in government stood with them and who did not."

Last week, Sen. James Skoufis, a Democrat from the Hudson Valley, said the Legislature should flex its muscle back at the govenror and send bills they pass to her desk every week instead of waiting for her to request them at the end of the year. Stewart-Cousins said that's not a strategy Senate Democrats have discussed, but that also would not likely persuade the executive to sign bills into law.