INDIANAPOLIS -- With lawmakers still at odds over a state budget, the looming prospect of a shutdown of state government gets more likely with each passing hour.

Democrats, who control the Indiana House, and Republicans, who are the majority in the state senate, don't appear to be any closer to reaching a budget agreement during the special session.

Prospects of a deal appear bleaker with each passing hour that lawmakers listen to public testimony on the issue, without the appearance of any real progress in those discussions.

Lawmakers must reach an agreement by midnight on June 30, or state government could shut down for the first time in modern history.

About 30,000 state employees are becoming increasingly worried they will be told to stay home starting next Wednesday.

State workers 6News' Ben Morriston spoke to were going about their usual duties Thursday, but said the budget battle is on their minds.

"It's very important. I mean, it supports our family," said one state worker. "My husband and I both work here, so it's a problem."

"I like my job very much," said another worker. "If I didn't have one -- well, I like my home. I like to eat. I'm afraid I wouldn't have those either."

Aside from workers' concerns, state services would also face severe cutbacks or cease entirely if a budget deal isn't reached.

"They won't get paid. They won't go to work, necessarily," said Rep. Jeff Espich, a Republican from Uniondale. "The services they provide will not happen. Yes, they should be concerned."

The Bureau of Motor Vehicles' 140 branches would close their doors. The Indiana Department of Transportation would stop making road repairs.

The Department of Natural Resources' 33 properties would be affected, and so would its 17 million yearly visitors.

WorkOne, which runs on primarily federal funding, would escape a shutdown, but most other state services would be shuttered.

Democratic Rep. William Crawford, chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, said Thursday that a shutdown is possible, but that he thinks it provides impetus to come to an agreement to avert a crisis.

"We have five days to reach an agreement. That should be more pressure on us to reach an agreement," Crawford said.

A shutdown could be avoided if a budget is passed, or if lawmakers approve a measure to keep operating despite a lack of agreement.

Indiana government's last shutdown happened in the mid 1800s, because of the Civil War.