MD SB961 | 2019 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2019-03-20 - Unfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Requiring, beginning in the 2020-2021 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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Title

Education - Public Schools - Instruction in Print and Cursive Handwriting

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History

DateChamberAction
2019-03-20SenateUnfavorable Report by Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2019-02-26SenateHearing 3/13 at 1:00 p.m.
2019-02-21SenateRereferred to Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs
2019-02-15SenateFirst Reading Senate Rules

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