COLUMBIA - The Legislature has a long list of must-do items to wrap up this week before Thursday's mandatory 5 p.m. adjournment.

Much of the Republican-controlled House's agenda is still in the works as lawmakers head home to face voters in the June 13 primary.

They started the session with high hopes of passing property tax breaks, creating more property-rights protection, addressing early childhood education needs, overhauling the state's workers' compensation system and spurring economic development.

None of that has made it into the state's law books this year.

A conference committee reached a final deal on property tax breaks Thursday, but their agreement still needs to be approved in the House and Senate before heading to Gov. Mark Sanford's desk.

The complex legislation calls for the state's sales tax to increase a penny on the dollar to 6 percent to pay for eliminating school-operating costs on owner-occupied homes. It gives consumers a break on grocery taxes, which would fall to 3 percent, and creates a two-day sales tax holiday after Thanksgiving.

But it's left businesses fretting higher taxes and the property- tax cut advocates that pushed for breaks feeling shortchanged.

More than $23 million has been set aside in the $6.6 billion state budget for early childhood education to begin addressing a judge's ruling from December that found the state wasn't doing enough to help the state's poorest and rural children learn. On Friday, a budget conference committee said it had worked out final compromises on the budget and will give them final approval this morning. The House and Senate have to approve that deal, too.

That budget bill also contains money for part of the property tax break and $13 million more for the Commerce Department intended to help the economic development agency close deals.

It's a key part of the economic development legislation the Legislature has taken up this year. But the House and Senate will have to decide whether to override Sanford's vetoes on two economic development bills.

Sanford said the bills unfairly carved out tax-credit breaks for Orangeburg County. The legislation lets the county qualify for "distressed" economic development status and increased the job tax credit available to $8,000 a job instead of the $3,500 credit it qualifies for as an "underdeveloped" county. Sanford said that was unfair to other underdeveloped counties.

That must-do list also includes plans to protect property owner rights by narrowing the governments' eminent domain powers. But the House and Senate haven't agreed to how that should be done.

The House has added language to the legislation that would require governments to compensate landowners when regulations, including zoning, affect what their property is worth. But the Senate isn't going along with that. With the time short and the differences large, there may not be enough time for legislators to work out compromises on the eminent domain legislation.

An overhaul of the state's workers' compensation had been at the top of Sanford's agenda and pushed by insurance companies and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce. Fast-rising rates had propelled calls for change. But the plan that emerged from the House was pared back substantially and never reached the Senate floor.

It will join other marooned bills, including Sanford's push for government restructuring and calls for college tuition caps.

There's something else on the must-do list.

The House has to decide whether to go along with a Senate-passed plan to return to Columbia on June 14-16. That brings the Legislature back into session to deal with Sanford's vetoes on the budget and other legislation the day after House members face voters in the June 13 primary.