Legislation

Title: Education - Public Schools - Instruction in Print and Cursive Handwriting
Sponsored by: Delegates Boteler, Arikan, Buckel, Impallaria, Miller, Rose, and Wilkins
Status: In the House - Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.
Analysis: Fiscal and Policy Note

Synopsis

Requiring, beginning in the 2021-2022 school year, each county board of education to require each public elementary school in the county to provide handwriting instruction that enables students to develop legible print handwriting by the end of the third grade and legible cursive handwriting by the end of the fifth grade.

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Details

Introduced in a prior session as: SB0961 Session: 2019 Regular Session

Bill File Type: Regular

Effective Date(s): July 1, 2020

History

Legislation History
Chamber House Calendar Date 1/30/2020 Legislative Date 1/30/2020 Action First Reading Ways and Means Proceedings
Chamber Calendar Date Legislative Date Action Text - First - Education - Public Schools - Instruction in Print and Cursive Handwriting Proceedings
Chamber House Calendar Date 2/04/2020 Legislative Date 2/04/2020 Action Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m. Proceedings

Chamber	Calendar Date	Legislative Date	Action
House	1/30/2020	1/30/2020	First Reading Ways and Means
			Text - First - Education - Public Schools - Instruction in Print and Cursive Handwriting
House	2/04/2020	2/04/2020	Hearing 2/13 at 1:00 p.m.

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