With the two-year budget finally approved and signed by the governor, lawmakers on Tuesday turned their attention to the so-called special appropriations table, where nearly 300 bills were awaiting funding before being sent to Gov. Janet Mills.

Only a fraction of those bills made it through that process unscathed. Lawmakers only had about $5 million in revenue left to spend and the 292 bills awaiting action total more than $2.38 billion over the next two-year budget cycle.

Many of the bills advanced Tuesday either did not include a cost estimate, or had their appropriations drastically reduced, eliminated or delayed to future budget cycles. New programs, if enacted with only nominal funding, will be on the books, but won’t begin operating until funding is approved.

As of 5 p.m., the Legislature’s budget committee had advanced about 100 bills and planned to resume its work later in the evening. The advanced bills are expected to receive final votes when lawmakers return to Augusta on Wednesday. They hadn’t taken up bills to provide more funding for homeless shelters, establish an eviction prevention program or provide additional funding for family planning services.

Any bills not funded or enacted this year could be carried over to the second session and considered for funding, if state revenues exceed current expectations.

The Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee voted Tuesday to advance efforts to crack down on ghost guns and employer surveillance of workers, to require insurance companies to cover the cost of nonprescription contraceptives and to extend favorable tax laws the Mi’kmaq Nation, among others.

One of the most notable bills advanced was LD 1126, which would crack down on so-called ghost guns, which are untraceable firearms assembled at home using 3-D printers or mail-order kits.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Sam Zager, D-Portland, would require those firearms to have a serial number so they can be traced. It originally called for funding for additional positions in the Maine Department of Public Safety. But the agency informed lawmakers that those positions were not needed, so the funding was removed.

Ghost guns became a national focus after the slaying of a health care executive in Manhattan last year.

Fifteen states have banned ghost guns, including Massachusetts and Rhode Island, according to gun safety organization Everytown for Gun Safety.

Lawmakers also advanced an amended version of LD 222, which would have established a take-back and disposal program for firefighting foam that contains forever chemicals.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Dan Ankeles, D-Brunswick, came in response to significant amount of firefighting foam at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Now called Brunswick Landing, it was the site of the state’s biggest firefighting foam spill in 30 years. It originally called for a one-time investment of $5 million to take back and dispose of the contaminated firefighting foam.

But lawmakers only approved a $500 allocation to get the program on the books so it could be considered for funding in the future.

A bill to expand the amount of charity care that hospitals and their affiliates have to provide to people who don’t have insurance was one of the most debated bills advanced by the committee.

Hospitals have experienced a delay in Medicaid payments through the MaineCare program after Republicans withheld support of a supplemental budget this session. And the hospitals face an added threat from President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans’ so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” which would cut Medicaid and force more people to go uninsured, while extending tax cuts that have disproportionately benefited the wealthy.

Republicans on the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee criticized Democrats for continuing to drive up costs at a time when hospitals are struggling and in some cases closing.

“We have hospitals closing everywhere and now we’re saying you have to do more charity care,” said Rep. Jack Ducharme, R-Madison.

Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, defended the measure.

“This bill is intended to make sure that the people who don’t have insurance have access to health care,” said Gattine, who co-chairs the committee.