HARRISBURG — State lawmakers will soon return to the Pennsylvania Capitol with the state budget as the top order of business, accompanied by three marquee issues: liquor system privatization, public pension changes and transportation infrastructure funding.

It’s an ambitious agenda, but they will still have time to work on other matters. Budget-season horse-trading is a time-tested way to get things done.

So what else might move?

In the House, Children and Youth Committee Chairwoman Kathy Watson, R-Bucks, said she hopes to see passage of a new definition of child abuse, part of the changes being looked at after the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal illustrated shortcomings in current law.

Education Chairman Paul Clymer, R-Bucks, wants changes to charter and cyber charter schools that address funding, accountability and conflicts of interest. He also is pushing for anti-bullying legislation.

A proposal to pull the plug on a block grant pilot program for county human services will get a hearing next week before the Human Services Committee, said chairman Gene DiGirolamo, R-Bucks.

“I just don’t think you should be making these poor people fight amongst themselves for money,” he said.

Pennsylvania is one of only two states without standards for water wells, said Energy and Environment Chairman Ron Miller, R-York, but that would change under a bill he is working to get approved.

The Senate is poised to vote on a House-passed bill that would bar coverage of abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or when the mother’s life is in danger, under health insurance policies offered in the federally run insurance marketplaces.

Labor and Industry Chairman John Gordner, R-Columbia, said he’s trying to work out the difference in the competing bills each chamber has passed to address “triple dipping,” where retired state workers come back on the job for three months, then collect unemployment. His committee priorities also include funding for unemployment compensation centers and a bill to prevent customers who have paid what they owe to general contractors from being sued by subcontractors who themselves have not been paid.

Negotiators are working on competing House and Senate bills to address human trafficking, and a compromise may be produced in the coming weeks, said Judiciary Chairman Stewart Greenleaf, R-Montgomery. Another proposal in Judiciary’s on-deck circle would expand protection-from-abuse orders so they can be authorized against people accused of sexual assault.

High profile issues that probably won’t get done in the Senate in June include a bill to address municipal borrowing rules to prevent situations like the one involving hundreds of millions in debt tied to the Harrisburg incinerator, said Local Government Chairman John Eichelberger, R-Blair.

A set of amendments to the state Right-to-Know Law and changes to the makeup of the Penn State Board of Trustees also will get pushed back to the fall, said State Government Chairman Lloyd Smucker, R-Lancaster.