AUGUSTA - The Legislature gave final approval Monday night to a state budget rewrite that offsets a $190 million shortfall in Maine's $6.3 billion two-year General Fund budget by making a range of cuts with no new broad-based taxes.

The budget passed in the House by an 84-55 vote before winning Senate enactment with an 18-17 roll call as Monday's deadline closed in.

The package advanced by majority Democrats did not include a provision opposed by Republicans and unwelcome to Democratic Gov. John Baldacci. The new budget package dropped a hospital tax-and-match revision, which was spun off so it could face a freestanding vote of its own.

While seeking to balance Maine's $6.3 billion budget, Democratic legislative leaders sought to spare low-income childless adults from a host of cutbacks in state human services programs.

One major portion of savings within the package remained: a $34.1 million reduction in state aid to local schools advanced by Baldacci.

The budget includes no tax increases and does not touch the state's Rainy Day fund, said House Speaker Glenn Cummings, D-Portland.

"This budget is difficult and the cuts are real and deep and will affect our education and health care systems for years to come," said Cummings. But by not raising taxes or touching reserves, it leaves the state in a better position to weather a national economic downturn and federal cuts, he said.

Sen. Peggy Rotondo, D-Lewiston, co-chair of the Appropriations Committee, said passage marked the end of "a long and painful journey" by lawmakers. But she said that 98 percent of it won bipartisan support.

Senate Minority Leader Carol Weston, R-Montville, said, "We're just going to be looking at the very same budget" as the one advanced in the House last week, "only in two pieces."

The hospital tax-and-match provision would adjust the base year of a tax on net hospital revenue to raise $11 million that could be used to offset a proposed reduction in reimbursements for hospital-based physicians.

Short of winning two-thirds majorities in both chambers, which would allow program reductions to take effect right away, lawmakers had to act before Tuesday to ensure a revised state spending plan is in place by June 30 - the last day of the current fiscal year.

Failure to enact would prompt the governor to take emergency action to reduce expenditures. The new budget package must be signed by the governor to take effect by the end of June.

Democrats hold a commanding edge over Republicans in the House, but their Senate majority is a bare 18-17. New efforts on Monday within the Senate Democratic bloc sought to keep the caucus together.

In March, Baldacci proposed cutting $27.5 million from the human services budget. The governor already had put forth $65.4 million in human services cuts in January before a budget shortfall initially pegged at $95 million doubled to $190 million.

Facing dwindling General Fund revenue, Baldacci issued a $38 million curtailment order on Dec. 18, 2007. The amount of a new curtailment to slow the rate of state spending, effective April 1 in advance of the June 30 end of fiscal 2008, would be $27 million.