More state judges are being disciplined for misbehaving than at any time since 2012 — yet the commission responsible for punishing them is operating on a shoestring budget, the panel’s administrator says.

New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct Administrator Robert H. Tembeckjian will ask lawmakers for a $359,000 boost to the panel’s $5.7 million annual budget in testimony to an Assembly committee scheduled for Tuesday, citing “nearly a decade of budgetary constraints in which its work load has increased by 25 percent while its staff has decreased by 25 percent.”

A spokesman for the governor said the commission has received regular increases.