Lawmakers extended the lives of five state agencies and approved $2 billion in bond sales, but stopped short of allowing new public-private partnerships for new transportation projects.

Gov. Rick Perry wanted the Legislature to extend the state's authority to start new Comprehensive Development Agreements, or CDAs. But lawmakers don't want to do that and aren't convinced any new projects will go unbuilt if they don't act.

With no sense of urgency around it, they decided they're not going to act on that last request.

And they changed their tact on the bond sales, striking a provision that would have set up a revolving fund, financed by those bonds, that supporters said would allow more roads to get built. As with the CDAs, lawmakers said they can make any changes they want in the regular session in 2011 without any real detriment to the state's transportation planning and construction.

"Since it's not going to make any difference in the number of lane miles that are built between now and the 2011 session, we can address this during that session," Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst told reporters.

They planned to finish work on those first two issues and go home, just a day after they began the special session.

Lawmakers were reluctant to take on the CDA issue in a short session. It's fraught with political risk, with some voters unhappy about toll roads, partnerships that let foreign companies collect tolls and operate roads, and plans to add toll lanes to free roads in the state. Some lawmakers were willing to give the Texas Department of Transportation the right to go ahead with those deals, if some safeguards were put in place. Others wanted to approve only the new CDAs on a list. And others wanted to kill the idea altogether.

The one thing they finally agreed on: No projects will go unbuilt if they put off the issue until the next regular session. That was enough to put the thing to rest for now.

The revolving fund that went with the bonds appeared to be alright in the Senate, but some members of the House had misgivings. Since it won't affect any projects before the regular session, it was easier to set that fight aside.

"It's a new concept," said Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan.

"The House was a little uncomfortable with that, as I understand it..." he said. "In the interest of the short time that we have, I think that they were more comfortable with the familiar than with the risk that you take with something new."