Bill Text: NH HB170 | 2023 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-05-08 - Signed by Governor Sununu 05/04/2023; Chapter 17; eff: 07/03/2023 [HB170 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2023-HB170-Enrolled.html
HB 170 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
16Mar2023... 0316h
2023 SESSION
23-0513
09/10
HOUSE BILL 170
AN ACT requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.
SPONSORS: Rep. Hobson, Rock. 14; Rep. Ball, Rock. 25; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 5; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 38
COMMITTEE: Education
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires school boards to teach cursive handwriting and the memorization of multiplication tables.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16Mar2023... 0316h 23-0513
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Cursive Handwriting and Memorization of Multiplication Tables. RSA 189:11-c is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
189:11-c Cursive Handwriting and Memorization of Multiplication Tables. Each public school district and chartered public school shall:
(a) Provide instruction in cursive writing by the end of fifth grade as a component of English language arts; and
(b) Provide instruction of the multiplication tables by the end of fifth grade; and
(c) Subparagraphs (a) and (b) may be accommodated, modified, or waived in accordance with a student’s Individual Education Program (IEP) or 504 Plan.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
