ALBANY – The Legislature on yesterday proposed adding $314 million to school aid and $692.8 million to healthcare programs over Governor Pataki’s budget plan.

In order to produce the first on-time budget in 20 years, legislative leaders originally planned to have an agreement between themselves and Mr. Pataki by yesterday.

Mr. Pataki accused the Legislature of falling behind schedule to have a budget by the April 1 start of the fiscal year.

Several issues were slated to be negotiated by legislative leaders today. Then the Legislature’s budget – with $1.55 billion more spending than Pataki proposed – will go to the governor for negotiations through the holiday weekend.

The goal is a three-way budget agreement that some lawmakers and Mr. Pataki said is looking increasingly unlikely.

Mr. Pataki proposed a $105.5 billion budget back in January. With its proposed cost savings and new revenues, the Legislature says its budget will be a net increase of $106.5 billion.

Mr. Pataki, however, says the Legislature’s plan appears to be hundreds of millions of dollars more than that.

“I think the people of this state deserve a consensus budget,” Mr. Pataki said, adding that the Legislature has yet to provide what could be thousands of pages of budget bills for his consideration.

In past years when Mr. Pataki didn’t agree with the Legislature’s spending, lawmakers would simply rewrite the budget. But a recent Court of Appeals decision gave the governor far more constitutional power in drafting a budget.

“We are not going to allow the governor to keep us from passing a timely budget,” said Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

The Legislature could try to overcome its constitutional limitations in a careful rewriting of Mr. Pataki’s budget and pass its own spending plan, subject to Mr. Pataki’s veto and possible court challenges.

“Then it’s not a budget,” said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group. “It’s only a budget if it it’s in place. It would be close, but no cigar.”

Mr. Horner said he’s optimistic an on time, Mr. Pataki-supported budget is possible.

“I think if we passed a budget, the (public) would say, ‘Okay, good,’ ” said Assemblyman William Parment of Jamestown, part of the Democratic majority in the Assembly.

In education funding, the Legislature’s budget would provide more funds to high-needs schools including in excess of $300 million more to New York City over the current year, said Assembly Education Committee Chairman Steven Sanders.

Mr. Pataki has proposed a $526 million increase in school aid, now about $15 billion a year, and the Legislature calls for $840 million more, he said.