When this year’s 60-day session opened, state House and Senate lawmakers cited housing, homelessness and education as priorities. The outcome of Thursday’s sine die wrap-up will be a mix of seized and missed opportunities.

In a move to take on Hawaii’s affordable housing crisis, a hefty $200 million is slated to be added to the state Rental Housing Revolving Fund; $10 million is tagged for the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund that underwrites infrastructure for such housing; and expanded tax-exemption incentives are in the works for builders. Many more units for residents in low-income brackets must emerge to fend off more homelessness in the islands.

Altogether, lawmakers are poised to spend more than $50 million on programs serving as a continuum of sorts to help thousands of homeless people find their way to permanent housing. Much of the legislation tied to this funding, including $30 million to set up camp-like “ohana zones,” is short on specifics. The result could be either effective agility, or ill-advised foot-dragging. The latter could quickly leave the state with a larger homeless population and overwhelmed resources.

The biggest education-related win, from the perspective of Hawaii’s teachers union and others, is the Legislature’s support for putting before voters a proposal to establish a surcharge on investment real property, which would serve as a funding stream for public education. Slated for November’s general election ballot, approval would amend the state Constitution and enable the 2019 Legislature to debate the surcharge’s still-fuzzy parameters.

Topping the missed opportunities list is failure — for a third year in a row — to tackle troubles linked to the exploding inventory of illegal short-term vacation rentals. A deferred measure, which would have established a process for online platforms, like Airbnb, to collect and remit tens of millions of dollars in now uncollected state taxes, will likely be picked up next year. For now, counties must seize more regulation and enforcement control over this growth, which burdens Hawaii’s infrastructure and natural resources.

Among other stumbles, lawmakers passed up a proposal to make the cigarette tax the highest in the nation, and include vaping e-liquid in the levy. Over the past few years, the Legislature has done well to require smoke-free beaches and parks, and raise the age for the sale of tobacco and e-cigarettes to 21. Glaring health concerns connected to both nicotine delivery systems justify a steep tax as a means to discourage use.

Bright spots in health and human services funding folded into the proposed $14.4 billion budget for state government operations in the year that begins July 1 include: expansion of the Kupuna Caregivers program to support working family caregivers; a long-overdue increase in stipend payments for households providing child foster- care services; a pilot program that will bring more social workers to East Hawaii island to ease an onerous caseload in the state’s child welfare system; and three new ambulances — one each for Kauai, Hawaii island and urban Oahu.

Lawmakers rightly proceeded with caution on some pocketbook issues, including paid family leave from the workplace. They set in motion the drafting of state rules for an envisioned universal coverage program. The trick will be to balance worker protections with employer ability to sustain them.

This year’s emotionally charged testimony was largely focused on a measure signed into law last month as the “Our Care, Our Choice” Act, capping a decades-long debate on whether to legalize medical aid in dying here.

When that law takes effect Jan. 1 — a few weeks before the start of the next session — debate about its merits and those of other new laws will continue on various levels. And the Legislature will, once again, be presented with opportunity to sensibly sort out state spending and policy legislation.