Hundreds of tenant advocates descended on the state capital on Tuesday to demand that legislators expand rent protections, which are set to expire June 15.

Members of the City Council also made the trip to Albany. While the vast majority of rent-protected apartments are in New York City, advocates want to expand that statewide.

"We can right a wrong that happened 27 years ago, and in the next 32 days do something that will change the course of history in New York City and around the state. First: Universal rent control now," New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer said.

But the state Senate and Assembly, which Democrats now control, have been approaching the issue on different tracks.

Both houses are holding hearings around the state, but separately. And the Assembly has introduced a package of nine bills to expand rent protections. We have yet to see a proposal from the Senate.

"As you know, there has been a tradition where that hasn't happened. The only hearings that have happened at the same time have been budget hearings. And there is nothing wrong with that tradition," Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes said. "The Assembly has a direction to go and the Senate has a direction to go. And at the end of the day, we will get together and it will look the same."

One bill that is not included in the Assembly package is known as "good cause," which provides protections for tenants statewide, not allowing landlords to kick them out unless they have good cause to do so.

It would also limit rent increases to a percentage of the rate of inflation, which some have argued is a backdoor way of imposing universal rent control or rent protections statewide.

"I'm wary of saying that the bill itself is universal rent control, but some describe it that way because it would expand protections so vastly to tenants who are currently, by definition, excluded from rent regulation," State Sen. Julia Salazar of Brooklyn said.