The Texas House has filed its school voucher bill. The legislation differs in several ways from what the Senate has already passed. The two chambers would have to hash out their differences before sending any legislation to Gov.

School choice has already passed in the Senate, but now two bills that go hand in hand with school choice have been filed in the House on February 20th.

Like the Texas Senate, the House calls for a cash incentive paid from taxes for families who want to switch their kids from public to private school. But unlike the Senate, the House tied the amount of that incentive to public school funding.

The proposal sets a few possible points of contention between the House and Senate, including how much money families should get through the program.

Gov. Greg Abbott and Speaker Dustin Burrows predict a school voucher bill will pass through the Texas House, which last year blocked such a program.

The Texas Senate recently passed its version of a school choice program with Senate Bill 2. The proposed legislation calls for education savings accounts — a voucher-like program that allows families to use taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuition.

A top Texas senator filed legislation Monday that would extend the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to K-12 public schools, marking the first step in fulfilling a priority of Gov.