Assemblyman Jack McEneny this afternoon hedged on whether the redrafted maps for Senate and Assembly lines, along with the still undetermined House lines, would be ready by Monday.

“We still don’t have an agreement on the Congress and we’re wrapping up the Senate and Assembly,” McEneny, the Assembly Democratic chairman of the Legislative redistricting task force, said in a phone interview.

Asked if a bill would be introduced Monday in time for lawmakers to consider by March 1, McEneny demurred.

“I think we’ll have a bill next week,” McEneny said. “I’m not going to get into the first. I think we’ll have a bill for members next week.”

Coincidentally, a federal magistrate is meeting with the various sides of the redistricting lawsuit on Monday as well, a meeting that could nudge the process toward a special master to draw the lines.

Both Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said this month that the maps would be ready to vote on by the first of March. A bill would have to be introduced by Monday in order for the three-day aging process.

It’s also unclear if the measure would include the Assembly, Senate and House lines in one bill.

“The negotiations are going on for all three,” McEneny said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has insisted — as recently as Thursday — he would veto the lines drawn for Senate and Assembly districts as they are now.

Cuomo has said he wants a Constitutional amendment, which would not take practical effect until the next round of redistricting in 2022. Cuomo admitted in an interview with the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle recently that he “lost” on achieving an independent panel this year, but said lawmakers could avoid his veto by putting together fairer, less overtly political lines.

It does appear like a careful pattern of dominoes is begin to fall on redistricting. Senate Republicans are poised to drop their prisoner-counting lawsuit and Citizens Union, a good-government group, is giving some cover to Cuomo by urging him to use his veto threat as a means of getting fairer lines this year and a long-term solution through a Constitutional amendment.

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