ALBANY—A proposal by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to ban so-called gay and trans panic defense strategies was not included in the Senate and Assembly’s budget proposals because it would place limits on defense strategies, according to a key lawmaker.

Assemblyman Joe Lentol, a Democrat from Brooklyn who chairs the chamber’s codes committee, told the New York Law Journal on Wednesday that both houses agreed to reject the Democratic governor’s proposal because it would place limits on the types of defense an attorney could argue and because it would “carve out” one class of cases from the reasonableness test.