New York state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said Wednesday night that state leaders have reached a deal on discovery reform, which has held up budget talks for over two weeks, and made significant progress on other policy items in the spending plan.

After a roughly one-hour leaders meeting with Gov. Kathy Hochul on Wednesday evening, Heastie told Spectrum News 1 the meeting went well.

"Discovery's done," the speaker said.

But to reach a final budget deal, Heastie said there's still work to be done.

"Progress, but no deal," he added.

Hochul on Wednesday called a meeting with legislative leaders for the first time in six days to hammer out the compromise after a protracted stalemate on changing the state's discovery laws.

"I believe we're on the verge of a very important deal with

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