Albany’s low ‘passing’ grade e

State legislators passed 606 bills this year — the fewest since 2012, according to a report released on Monday.

The New York Public Interest Research Group said that makes 2017 the fifth-least productive year in Albany since 1997.

The legislative year runs from January through most of June.

In 2012, 571 bills passed both houses. In 1997, a measly 475 bills got through.

Told of the numbers, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan defended the Legislature’s accomplishments.

“Senate Republicans delivered the largest single investment for clean water in state history, the most significant workers’-comp reform in a decade, ridesharing for upstate, record funding for local schools, and the resources we need to fight and win the battle against heroin and opioids,” said Scott Reif, Flanagan’s spokesman. Gov. Cuomo’s office agreed. “This year, New York became the first state in the nation to make four-year college tuition free for middle- and workingclass kids, and we doubled the child-care tax credit for families, cut middleclass taxes — again — passed landmark criminal-justice reform and made historic investments in educa-ducation,” said Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

“Either the lobbyists at NYPIRG can’t actually tell the difference between quantity and quality or they’re intentionally being intellectually dishonest.”

There was no comment from Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie.