HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania’s state House of Representatives and Senate returned to the Capitol on Tuesday, as leaders of the Republican-controlled chambers worked to get an agreement on a roughly $42 billion budget plan with Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf before the state loses some of its spending authority in three days.

No main spending bill has been unveiled, and hundreds of pages of budget-related legislation remained under wraps. Closed-door talks were still going on as top Republican lawmakers remained tight-lipped, even with rank-and-file Republicans in the House and Senate, saying they didn’t want to undermine their negotiating strategy.

“We’re having meetings today and I think that we’re getting to a good spot,” Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward, R-Westmoreland, said in brief comments in a Capitol hallway between meetings.

Work was unlikely to be done before the weekend and Wolf has generally stayed out of sight in the Capitol.

Without new budget legislation signed into law by Friday, the state will lose the authority to make some payments, although it could be weeks before any effect on services is felt.

Wolf’s budget secretary, Greg Thall, said a budget deal is within reach and that there is no reason to miss the end-of-fiscal-year deadline on Friday.

Still, the approaching budget deadline has begun to revive memories of protracted, monthslong budget fights between Wolf and the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2015 and 2017 that inflicted lasting stress on counties, schools and social services agencies, and precipitated another credit downgrade.

“When you’re still talking three days before the deadline, that’s a stalemate,” said Rep. Frank Ryan, R-Lebanon.

The talks revolve around the amount of money Wolf is seeking for public schools, after he asked for almost $1.8 billion more for instruction, operations and special education, or about 21% more. Of that, $300 million was set aside for the 100 poorest public school districts and $200 million for special education.

Thall would not discuss what sort of concessions Republican lawmakers were seeking from Wolf, saying only that “the list they’ve asked for is long and ridiculous.”