Bill Text: IN SB0120 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Cursive writing in school curriculum.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-3)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-02-26 - First reading: referred to Committee on Education [SB0120 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2013-SB0120-Amended.html

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January 25, 2013

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SENATE BILL No. 120

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DIGEST OF SB 120 (Updated January 24, 2013 7:24 am - DI 116)

Citations Affected: IC 20-30.

Synopsis: Cursive writing in school curriculum. Requires each school corporation and accredited nonpublic elementary school to include cursive writing in its curriculum. Provides that reading is part the of the language arts curriculum required in a school corporation's curriculum.

Effective: July 1, 2013.

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Leising , Delph , Becker, Arnold J, Grooms, Waterman, Steele, Tomes, Kruse, Randolph, Smith J,
Miller Patricia

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    January 7, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Education and Career Development.
    January 24, 2013, amended, reported favorably _ Do Pass.

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January 25, 2013

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)

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SENATE BILL No. 120

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    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; (13)SB0120.1.1. -->     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, 2013]: 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) reading;
            (C) (D) composition;
            (D) (E) speech; and
            (E) (F) second languages; and
             (G) for an elementary school, cursive writing.
        (2) Mathematics.
        (3) Social studies and citizenship, including the:
            (A) constitutions;
            (B) governmental systems; and
            (C) histories;

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        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.

SOURCE: IC 20-30-5-7.2; (13)SB0120.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 20-30-5-7.2 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 7.2. An accredited nonpublic elementary school shall include in the accredited nonpublic elementary school's curriculum language arts studies in cursive writing.