HARRISBURG — Here is a summary of key bills in the Legislature as the House and Senate near the end of their scheduled session days in 2011:

• Public schools: Gov. Tom Corbett, the House and the Senate remained unable to agree on wide-ranging public school legislation that primarily would create taxpayer-paid vouchers to subsidize private school tuition for children of lower-income families in struggling public schools.

The Senate passed a bill in October that Corbett called a “strong education reform package.” House GOP leaders tried Wednesday to line up support in their caucus for a plan to test a much smaller voucher plan in a five-year pilot project, but ultimately threw in the towel and never put it to a vote.

• School choice — The House spiked GOP leaders’ late-night attempt to shove through a charter-school reform package.

The plan would have established a state commission that would join local school boards in authorizing new charter schools and be the only agency that could authorize new online cyber-charter schools. It also would have created a committee to examine the financing of both and expanded a tax credit for businesses that finance certain educational causes.

Proponents said the package would expand school choice. Democrats countered that it would create an expensive new state bureaucracy rather than improve education.

• Gas drilling: Corbett, the House and the Senate also were still at odds over legislation to address the state’s booming natural gas industry.

Key areas of disagreement include the amount of a fee to impose on the industry, whether it should be imposed by the state or counties, and how that money should be divided among various government programs. Each chamber passed a bill on the subject in November, with both largely opposed by Democrats, but the bills contained substantial differences.

• Abortion regulations: The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill that would require clinics performing abortions to meet the same licensing standards as ambulatory surgical facilities. Corbett is expected to sign it into law.

Clinics can seek exceptions from the state Department of Health under the bill.

Anti-abortion groups support the measure, but it is opposed by groups that support abortion rights as well as by associations of medical professionals, including obstetricians, gynecologists and social workers.

Opponents warn that the cost of complying with the regulations could force some women’s health clinics to stop performing abortions.

• Congressional map: The Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican-drawn map of Pennsylvania’s 18 new congressional districts that was first publicly unveiled Tuesday.

The new map would give all of Butler County to Republican Congressman Mike Kelly of Butler. Currently he shares the county with Democrat Jason Altmire.

It also would force Altmire and Democratic incumbent Congressman Mark Critz into the same new district. They would have to compete in the spring primary.

The bill still requires approval from the House before it can go to Corbett’s desk.

• Sex offenders: The Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to help Pennsylvania substantially comply with the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 requiring states to create a new sex offender registration and notification system.

It also would require homeless sex offenders and sex offenders moving to Pennsylvania from other states to register with police.

The bill passed the House earlier and now goes to the governor’s desk.