HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania state Senate will return to Harrisburg today to deal with two budget-related bills that remained in limbo two days into the state government’s new fiscal year.

The bills passed the House two days ago, but with changes that are at odds with their fellow Republicans who lead the Senate.

In one bill that guides human services programs and funding, the House removed a provision that would have required Gov. Tom Corbett to seek federal approval for an expansion of Medicaid eligibility to hundreds of thousands of uninsured working adults under the 2010 health care law.

Corbett has not said where he stands on the bill, which passed the Senate 40-10 before a House committee stripped it out and the House sent it back to the Senate on Monday, 108-94.

In another bill that guides how money is to be spent, the House inserted a provision that suggests House and Senate Republican leaders intend to pass legislation to legalize high-interest “payday” loans in Pennsylvania. Many consumer groups oppose payday lending and Senate Republican spokesman Erik Arneson said Tuesday the Senate did not agree to it.

A spokesman for House Republican leaders said Tuesday he did not know who slipped the provision into the 56-page bill, which emerged Monday night just before the House passed it. The spokesman, Steve Miskin, defended it as innocuous.

“There’s nothing that’s legally binding or anything,” Miskin said. “All it says is, ‘we intend to do it.”’

A payday loan bill that cleared the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee in an 8-6 vote on June 4 is opposed by the AARP, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia and the Military Officers Association of America.

Miskin said that state aid to four universities — Penn State, Pitt, Temple and Lincoln — would be held up further if the Senate decides not to approve the bills.