Topeka ? Members of the state Senate Ways and Means Committee return to the Statehouse next week to get a status report on the Kansas budget.

The panel meets Tuesday to hear from state agency officials on how they’ve responded to the latest round of cuts imposed by Gov. Mark Parkinson.

Parkinson trimmed state spending by $260 million last month to balance the budget. That was after a forecast was issued Nov. 5 showing the state with a growing shortfall in tax revenues.

The Ways and Means Committee meeting follows similar meetings by the House Appropriations Committee to get a jump on the 2011 budget process. Legislators return to Topeka in January.