Thursday's adjournment will come with no final agreements on raising the state's cigarette tax and there's little expectation the Senate will be able to move a bill adding new restrictions to the state's payday lending industry.
The Legislature set a 5 p.m. deadline to adjourn. That's two weeks earlier than usual and comes after the House and Senate both took several weeks off without pay to save money.
That's left a last-minute scramble to deal with legislation. The Senate has to deal with 30 budget vetoes.
Lawmakers will return briefly in June to deal with vetoes. They've also allowed themselves the option of coming back to deal with budget problems later in the year.
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