DENVER -- State lawmakers adjourned a second special session Tuesday after passing $390 million in emergency budget cuts to deal with a worsening revenue shortfall.

They also killed the last remaining growth management bill and three final attempts by Republicans to draw new congressional districts.

House Speaker Doug Dean, R-Colorado Springs, said lawmakers still have time to try again in January before courts are asked to draw congressional districts.

Republicans, who now control four of Colorado's six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, have a lawsuit pending in federal court. Democrats have filed suit in Denver District Court.

The parties are fighting over the location of a seventh congressional seat awarded because of Colorado's rapid growth over the past decade. Republicans say it should go where most growth has occurred south of Denver, while Democrats would like to see a new Hispanic district created around Pueblo.

Dean (pictured, right) said that Democrats are pinning their hopes on state Supreme Court judges appointed by Democratic governors over the past two decades.

"Senate Democrats are already acting as if the fix is in," Dean said.

Senate President Stan Matsunaka, D-Loveland, said Republicans are trying to ignore the fact that a third of the state's 2.8 million registered voters are independents, many of whom supported Democrats in recent elections, and said the courts will probably have to draw the new districts.

According to the Secretary of State's Office, 34 percent of the state's 2.8 million registered voters are independents, 35 percent are Republicans, 30 percent are Democrats and 1 percent belong to minority parties.

"The independent voters have an equal voice in this state," Matsunaka said.

Dean said lawmakers succeeded in passing a series of growth bills sought by the governor, as well as a plan to fund breast and cervical cancer treatment to take advantage of federal subsidies.

Lawmakers also fixed a last-minute hitch in Senate Bill 23, an emergency plan to deal with the state's budget crisis. The plan defers $217 million for construction and $173 million in sales tax revenue to be used for transportation projects, saving an estimated $390 million.

Lawmakers added $3 million for the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center inadvertently cut in committees, and rejected a request from the governor for an equal amount be used for transportation.

Owens' spokesman, Dick Wadhams, said the governor was pleased with the bills on growth and cancer funding and would be back in January for money for highways.

Owens was in New York City on Tuesday, meeting with other governors on education.

Lawmakers failed twice before to pass growth legislation. During their second special session, which began Sept. 20, they approved plans to limit "leapfrog" annexation, require communities to finish master plans, a way to resolve disputes and allowing local governments to impose impact fees.