Cuomo has only signed 62 bills so far

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo could be on pace to set a record for the fewest bills signed into law in a calendar year. Heading into the final week of the 2011 legislative session, Cuomo has enacted just 62 laws. That's minuscule compared with typical years. During the Pataki era no less than 582 laws were signed in a single year, 2001.

Under Gov. Mario Cuomo, 731 was the low. Even in 2009, when a partisan coup threw the Senate into a period of paralysis, Gov. David A. Paterson signed 509 laws. To date, that's the fewest recorded in the New York Red Book, a government publication that tracks statistics back to 1920.

Though the last week of the session typically features a blizzard of approvals, and legislators could reconvene later this year, lawmakers have a long way to go to avoid the record. -- Yancey Roy