As part of negotiations for New York’s 2024 budget, Senate leaders sparred on Tuesday over a non-monetary but controversial debate about whether a 2020 reform measure that requires judges to set the “least restrictive” condition necessary to assure a criminal defendant’s court appearance.

The Democratic-controlled Senate, which is proposing a number of progressive-leaning inclusions to the state budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, intentionally omitted Gov. Kathy Hochul’s planned rollback of the least restrictive condition as part of its one-house budget released this week.