Bill Text: IN SB0083 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

---

Bill Title: Cursive writing in school curriculum.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 10-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-02-09 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [SB0083 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2012-SB0083-Amended.html

---

---

Reprinted

January 31, 2012

---

---

SENATE BILL No. 83

_____

DIGEST OF SB 83 (Updated January 30, 2012 4:38 pm - DI 71)

Citations Affected: IC 20-30.

Synopsis: Cursive writing in school curriculum. Requires each school corporation to include cursive writing in the curriculum of the school corporation.

Effective: July 1, 2012.

---

---

Leising , Kruse , Delph, Grooms, Waterman, Gard, Becker, Skinner, Steele, Smith J, Arnold, Miller

---

---

    January 4, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career Development.
    January 26, 2012, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
    January 30, 2012, read second time, amended, ordered engrossed.

---

---

---

Reprinted

January 31, 2012

Second Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2012)

PRINTING CODE. Amendments: Whenever an existing statute (or a section of the Indiana Constitution) is being amended, the text of the existing provision will appear in this style type, additions will appear in this style type, and deletions will appear in this style type.
Additions: Whenever a new statutory provision is being enacted (or a new constitutional provision adopted), the text of the new provision will appear in this style type. Also, the word NEW will appear in that style type in the introductory clause of each SECTION that adds a new provision to the Indiana Code or the Indiana Constitution.
Conflict reconciliation: Text in a statute in this style type or this style type reconciles conflicts between statutes enacted by the 2011 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

SENATE BILL No. 83

---

    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning education.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 20-30-5-7; (12)SB0083.2.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 20-30-5-7, AS AMENDED BY P.L.86-2007, SECTION 1, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2012]: Sec. 7. Each school corporation shall include in the school corporation's curriculum the following studies:
        (1) Language arts, including:
            (A) English;
            (B) grammar;
            (C) composition;
            (D) speech; and
            (E) second languages; and
            (F) cursive writing.
        (2) Mathematics.
        (3) Social studies and citizenship, including the:
            (A) constitutions;
            (B) governmental systems; and
            (C) histories;
        of Indiana and the United States, including a study of the

Holocaust in each high school United States history course.
        (4) Sciences.
        (5) Fine arts, including music and art.
        (6) Health education, physical fitness, safety, and the effects of alcohol, tobacco, drugs, and other substances on the human body.
        (7) Additional studies selected by each governing body, subject to revision by the state board.