SALEM — Shortly before 9 p.m. Monday night, the doors to both the Senate and House chambers swung open and lawmakers broke into applause, marking the end of the state’s first-ever constitutionally mandated legislative session, which will likely be remembered for reforming the state’s education and health care systems.

The session was expected to last 29 days, but went for 34, one day shy of the final deadline.

On Monday evening, lawmakers approved the final big-ticket items necessary before heading home, voting on foreclosure-protection bills, the budget and achievement compacts for schools and universities.

Protecting homeowners facing foreclosures became a contentious point of the abbreviated session, stuck for weeks in a partisan tug-of-war.

House Democratic Leader Tina Kotek, D-Portland, said the passage of the foreclosure-protection legislation was a sign that “sometimes people just do the right thing.”

The measure, Senate Bill 1552, aims to stop “dual track,” in which homeowners are foreclosed upon even as they work on loan modifications in an effort to keep their property. It will also require lenders to meet with both homeowners and neutral, third-party mediators before they can foreclose.

The annual session’s primary focus: re-balance the state’s budget.

Dealing with a $200 million hole since the 2011 session, budget writers used, in part, one-time money and projected future savings to buffer against the drop.

The budget avoids some earlier worst-case scenarios. Oregon State Police troopers will keep their jobs, funding for most education programs, including K-12, will stay at the current level, and there won’t be any prison closures.

Rep. Dennis Richardson, R-Central Point, told his colleagues on the House floor Monday night that coming to an agreement on the budget was “truly amazing” and a “gratifying moment.”

And, the budget writer said, the two parties were able to do it while keeping a cushion and without raising taxes.

The total general fund budget is $14.7 billion, with a $115 million ending-fund budget.

One of the final sticking points on the budget was reaching an agreement to send $4.5 million to Vernonia School District, which has lost buildings in floods.

The budget also includes $500,000 in lottery bonds for Central Oregon Community College to help expand math and science labs on the Redmond campus and money allocated to renovate the DMV’s Bend office.

Next, Gov. John Kitzhaber scored his final success this legislative session with the passage of Senate Bill 1581. The measure creates achievement compacts, requiring schools and universities to set goals and ties funding to their success in meeting the goals.

In light of today’s filing deadline for the May primary, leaders from both parties Monday night said they are well-positioned for the upcoming elections.

The 2012 legislative session likely marks the end of the historic 30-30 split between both parties in the House.

Republican leaders said they were disappointed more private-sector jobs weren’t created and pointed fingers at their Democratic counterparts.

But overall, House Republican Leader Kevin Cameron said, after the session, “Oregon can be proud of what came out of this building from us working together.”

Kotek, the House Democratic Leader, said she felt her party delivered on nearly every agenda item it set out to accomplish, from foreclosures to job bills. With the success of this legislative session, she said, Democrats “have a good shot at getting back to the majority.”

Here’s a look at some of the legislation approved by both chambers this session. Not all of the bills have been signed into law by the governor, and the list is not meant to be comprehensive.

Governor’s priorities

* Senate Bill 1580: One of the governor’s biggest priorities this session, Senate Bill 1580, is the health care reform legislation Kitzhaber believes will give Oregonians better health care at lower prices. The legislation will initially target those on the Oregon Health Plan and aim to give prevention-oriented health care by creating coordinate care organizations by the first of July.

* House Bill 4164: This bill created the health insurance exchange, a marketplace where small businesses and individuals can compare prices and health coverage.

* House Bill 4165: This measure aims to streamline the state’s early childhood education programs.

* Senate Bill 1581: These compacts would require schools and universities to set goals, and funding would be tied to their success in meeting them.

Help for timber counties

* HB 4176: Allows the governor to declare a county fiscally distressed, which would allow the state and counties to work together if cash-strapped counties can no longer provide basic services.

* HB 4175: This measure will allow certain counties, which have been in dire straits since the federal program providing timber payments expired, to dip into their road funds to help pay for certain public safety services.

Local priority bills

* SB 1532: Ensures that data centers, such as the Facebook data center in Prineville, that exist in enterprise zones will be exempt from central assessment while the enterprise zone is intact.

* SB 1544: Sen. Chris Telfer, R-Bend, said early on passing this measure was her priority. The bill changes the zoning of 465 acres of land in Redmond and readies it for industrial development.

* SB 1588: This measure changes the state law governing the sale of industrial revenue bonds. It’s another bill backed by Sen. Telfer, who hopes expanding the statute to allow bond revenue to support research and development will attract new jobs to the area.

Miscellaneous

* HB 4040: The so-called Oregon Investment Act creates a new board, the Oregon Growth Board, to coordinate the state’s economic development efforts. The board will combine and coordinate existing state economic development programs. Its other goal will be to help businesses raise capital by using state money to leverage private funds.

* HB 4039: The state will grant a two-year property tax reprieve for about 1,660 seniors with reverse mortgages who were abruptly kicked out of the state’s Senior and Disabled Property Tax Deferral Program last legislative session.

Wolves

* HB 4158: Gives Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife officials the ability to kill wolves responsible for feeding on livestock.

* HB 4005: Establishes an income tax credit for ranchers who lose livestock due to wolf depredation.

What didn’t make it

Rep. Jason Conger, R-Bend, knew making changes to the state’s Public Employees Retirement System would be a challenge in the short legislative session. He was right. His bill proposing several changes to the system died.

Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, was at the center of a debate between the two political parties while backing a bill that would have increased the amount of water that could have been diverted from the Columbia River to be used for irrigation. The measure seemed to die and be resurrected several times, but ultimately did not garner enough support to pass.

Rep. John Huffman, R-The Dalles, hoped to create a sunset date for Measure 67, which raised corporate taxes. That bill also died.