After not meeting for three months because of the coronavirus pandemic before returning this week, the General Assembly met Saturday in a rare weekend session to move closer to finally completing the 2020 session.

Typically, legislative sessions end in late March or early April, but lawmakers will be happy to finish this year Friday after the pandemic derailed their plans and forced a lengthy suspension.

While most of the dozen or so bills they considered Saturday were mundane, lawmakers now face a five-day sprint to pass a $25 billion state budget with massive spending cuts, consider a new hate-crimes law and potentially vote on whether to allow stores and restaurants to deliver wine and beer and to more than triple the state’s tax on cigarettes.