HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Legislators and the governor brokered a deal that ended the state budget impasse tonight, and state workers will return to the job one day after nearly 24,000 people were sent home without pay.

Scores of state parks, state-run museums and driver-license offices around the state were shuttered today on orders of Gov. Ed Rendell after a partisan deadlock held up the budget nine days into the new fiscal year.

"This is an agreement where all sides can say that they achieved some of their goals, and that's probably a good budget agreement," Rendell said, declaring himself "very satisfied with where we came out."

The deal addresses some of Rendell's health care and energy initiatives but will not impose the surcharge on electricity use the governor had sought, said Sen. Vince Fumo, ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.

"I rate it good," he said. "It's a win-win for everybody."

Fumo said the budget total was about $27.3 billion, close to what Democrats had proposed.

Republicans won an increase in the Educational Improvement Tax Credit that fosters school choice and the rolling of $300 million of the surplus into next year's spending, Fumo said.

"The governor proposed seven tax hikes," said Erik Arneson, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware. "This agreement has zero."

Among other things, Rendell got a film industry tax credit capped at $75 million.

Many details remained unclear, including whether the billions for highways and transit will count against the spending increase and whether total new money for transportation will reach the $1 billion in the first year that Rendell demanded.

Multiple sources said the Legislature would convene a special session this fall to address the energy topic, and that consideration of the $500 million Jonas Salk Legacy Fund would occur in November.

The impasse ended a tense day in the Capitol during which Republican House members took to the chamber floor for more than four hours, in a bit of political theater, to accuse majority Democrats of avoiding a showdown over a stopgap bill to pay state workers.

Negotiations seemed to pick up momentum late in the day, and news of the deal began seeping out around 10 p.m.

Despite the partial shutdown, such critical services as health care for the poor, state police patrols, emergency response and prisons have been maintained by the 52,000 workers whose jobs were designated as critical.

The total of employees on furlough was 23,562, with total wages of $3.5 million a day, according to Rendell's Office of Administration. The furloughed workers won't be paid for the time off.