After being held in limbo for most of the week, the Alabama Legislature gave final approval Thursday to the 2025 Education Trust Fund budget and a large supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year.

Alabama lawmakers ended the legislative session Thursday without approving a lottery, slot machines and video poker machines, continuing a 25-year stalemate on the issue of gambling. Supporters were unable to break an impasse in the Alabama Senate after the measure failed by one vote earlier in the session.

However, the concurred bills failed to make it to the Senate floor. Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Baldwin County, who sponsored the bills in the Senate, said he would have voted no on the bills after they passed in the House.