republic-os/legislation/us/states/de/149/hb-70.md

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Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS.	Under current educational standards, students are no longer required to be taught cursive writing and many schools have abandoned teaching cursive writing to students. As cursive writing is still an imperative skill in many professions, this bill makes teaching cursive writing a requirement for all public schools in Delaware.	us/states/de	Delaware General Assembly	149	HB 70	Delaware HB 70 (149)	bill		enacted	Andria L. Bennett Brian Pettyjohn Deborah Hudson Margaret Rose Henry	1	9	2	2017-03-09	2017-08-30	openstates	ocd-bill/db218a30-6956-4173-a441-3b4ebfde1ddf	https://legis.delaware.gov/BillDetail?LegislationId=25454	388991764b79c90d771a7076b2f0163e44e6cd387851837225864d7a12ad9f95	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-de

Delaware HB 70 (149) — AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS.

Under current educational standards, students are no longer required to be taught cursive writing and many schools have abandoned teaching cursive writing to students. As cursive writing is still an imperative skill in many professions, this bill makes teaching cursive writing a requirement for all public schools in Delaware.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Bill Text (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• SM — 17–2 (pass) · upper
• SM — 36–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Andria L. Bennett — primary (person)
• Brian Pettyjohn — primary (person)
• Deborah Hudson — primary (person)
• Margaret Rose Henry — primary (person)
• Bryant L. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
• Colin Bonini — cosponsor (person)
• Daniel B. Short — cosponsor (person)
• Dave G. Lawson — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Wilson — cosponsor (person)
• Gerald W. Hocker — cosponsor (person)
• Helene M. Keeley — cosponsor (person)
• John L. Mitchell — cosponsor (person)
• John Walsh — cosponsor (person)
• Kimberly Williams — cosponsor (person)
• Richard G. Collins — cosponsor (person)
• Ruth Briggs King — cosponsor (person)
• William R. Outten — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-03-09 Introduced and Assigned to Education Committee in House introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in House with 5 Favorable, 7 On Its Merits committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-17 Amendment HA 1 to HB 70 - Introduced and Placed With Bill amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-08 Amendment HA 1 to HB 70 - Passed In House by Voice Vote amendment-passage
• 2017-06-08 Passed By House. Votes: 36 YES 1 NO 1 NOT VOTING 3 ABSENT passage
• 2017-06-09 Assigned to Education Committee in Senate introduction, referral-committee
• 2017-06-14 Reported Out of Committee (Education) in Senate with 3 On Its Merits committee-passage
• 2017-06-21 Passed By Senate. Votes: 17 YES 2 NO 2 ABSENT passage
• 2017-08-30 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db218a30-6956-4173-a441-3b4ebfde1ddf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Delaware legislature records).