Topeka ? Legislators are hoping to make quick work of a final version of the 2012 Kansas budget.

Both chambers resumed meeting Wednesday after a three-week recess, hoping to agree on a $14 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

The House and Senate have approved versions of the budget, and both have about $6 billion in state revenue. Sticking points include how deep to reduce aid to public schools, issuing new bonds to complete the Statehouse renovation and the future of the Kansas Arts Commission.

Spending cuts are necessary to close a projected a budget shortfall that at one point in the session approached $500 million. Much of that gap represents the end of hundreds of millions of federal stimulus dollars used to prevent education and social service cuts.