Topeka ? Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has finished her bill-signing duties for the year, approving most of the final budget bill that legislators sent her.

Altogether, the governor signed 183 bills and vetoed seven others, including three allowing two coal-fired power plants in western Kansas. She let one become law without her signature, allowing Kansans to own machine guns, other fully automatic weapons, sawed-off shotguns and silencers.

The bill she signed Thursday amounts to $33 million and brings total spending to $13.6 billion for the budget year starting July 1. Overall spending would increase $391 million, or about 3 percent, during that time.

The governor kept the $750,000 for road improvements outside the soon-to-be closed Parsons Army Ammunition Plant.

It was that project, dubbed “the road to nowhere” by its critics that created the biggest controversy in passing the budget bill. Parsons officials want to turn the plant into an industrial park and view the project as vital.

The plant is in the district of Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dwayne Umbarger. Critics derided it as a pet project for the Thayer Republican.

Sebelius did veto from the spending bill a section earmarking portions of gambling revenue for the state property tax relief fund, state infrastructure reserve fund and debt reduction.

Legislators were counting on money from state-owned and operated casinos that will be built if the Kansas Supreme Court upholds the law creating them.

The governor said the law already sets out how gambling money should be spent and that creating additional stipulations would limit future legislatures from targeting such money where it’s most needed.

The debate over the spending bill was contentious because House members said various proposals, including the Parsons project, were wasteful spending.

Senate leaders said the real dispute was about how much to spend. The House wanted to add $86 million while the Senate shifted money around without any overall increase.