The 2017 legislative session ended with no measure offering private school tuition subisidies making it to the governor’s desk. The leading bill, Senate Bill 3, passed the Senate but died in the House, where it had faced strong resistance.

The bill would have created two new state programs aimed at subsidizing the costs associated with private school tuition and homeschooling for thousands of Texas schoolchildren. The first half of the bill proposed an education savings account program, which would have allowed parents to draw money from state-funded debit cards for tuition and other expenses. The second half of the bill created a tax credit scholarship program, which would have given tax credits to certain businesses if they made donations toward students’ private school tuition.

The bill changed over the course of the session, with the bill’s author, Sen. Larry Taylor, a Friendswood Republican, adding language to reduce the overall scale and carve out most rural counties to get the bill out of the Senate.

To help you understand the proposal, below is the text of the last version of SB 3, annotated with our own context and analysis. Text with a green underline are additions to current law.