It's too early to say whether she would sign a bill restoring the Tappan Zee name to the bridge currently named for the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday said. 

"Mario Cuomo was an extraordinary governor and if the bill passes the Legislature, I would certainly look at anything that passes," Hochul said on Tuesday during a visit to White Plains. "It is too premature."

Hochul added she's focused currently on the approval of a $227 billion state budget due at the end of March.

"I've got a whole budget that needs my undivided attention," she said. 

The measure to rechristen the bridge that joins Westchester and Rockland counties with the name of its predecessor has received a boost this legislative session with the backing of Democratic state Sen. James Skoufis.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo approved the name change in honor of his father after the replacement bridge was built. Cuomo also agreed to name a stretch of state highway after the late Sen. Bill Larkin and a park in New York City after the late Assemblyman Denny Farrell. 

But the bridge name change has been controversial in New York, with vows from Republicans to push for changing back the bridge to Tappan Zee, a name that references both the Native Americans who lived in the area as well as the Dutch immigrants who settled there.