In Topeka, lawmakers are between a rock and a hard place on taxes and spending, as their record legislative session continues.

The Kansas House adjourned in the midst of a vote on a bill raising taxes to close a budget shortfall. At the time of adjournment, the measure was failing. The House ended its session at midnight Wednesday.

Top Republicans said the House would reconvene Thursday morning at the same point. The roll will be held open so that 10 absent members can vote.

The last unrecorded tally was 86-29 against the bill. It raises sales, cigarette and business taxes to help raise more than $400 million during the fiscal year beginning July 1st. The tax increases are necessary to balance the $15.4 billion budget already approved by lawmakers for the next fiscal year.

Lawmakers have worked out details of proposals aimed at decreasing local property tax levies and potentially eliminating exemptions to the state’s sales tax.

Legislative negotiators on Wednesday also agreed to preserve an income tax credit for poor families for the sales tax they pay on food.

A leader of a group of House Republicans has acknowledged it will not win approval for a larger increase in taxes for business owners than GOP Governor Sam Brownback wanted. Republican Representative Mark Hutton of Wichita said Wednesday that increasing taxes for business owners by $24 million during the fiscal year beginning July 1st is the best his group can do. Hutton and other House Republicans were pushing for an increase of as much as $101 million. But Brownback had promised to veto any increase greater than $24 million.

A 2012 policy championed by Brownback ended income taxes on the profits of 281,000 business owners and 53,000 farmers. Hutton said it’s time for lawmakers to move on and close a projected budget shortfall. They’re considering sales and cigarette tax increases.