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Bill Reporting on school curriculum. Provides the following: (1) Not later than October 1, 2023, each public elementary school and state accredited nonpublic elementary school shall provide to the department of education (department) information regarding whether the school provides instruction on cursive writing to students and, if cursive writing instruction is provided, the grade level of students to whom the instruction is provided. (2) Not later than December 1, 2023, the department shall prepare a report regarding the information and submit the report to the legislative council. us/states/in Indiana General Assembly 2023 SB 72 Indiana SB 72 (2023)
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Curricula
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Jean Leising
Robert Behning
Susan Glick
Vaneta Becker
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Indiana SB 72 (2023) — Reporting on school curriculum.

Provides the following: (1) Not later than October 1, 2023, each public elementary school and state accredited nonpublic elementary school shall provide to the department of education (department) information regarding whether the school provides instruction on cursive writing to students and, if cursive writing instruction is provided, the grade level of students to whom the instruction is provided. (2) Not later than December 1, 2023, the department shall prepare a report regarding the information and submit the report to the legislative council.

Version chain

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

  1. Enrolled Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
  2. Introduced Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source
  3. Senate Bill (H) (committee substitute) — source
  4. Senate Bill (S) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • SB 72 - Behning - 3rd Reading — 950 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Jean Leising — primary (person)
  • Robert Behning — primary (person)
  • Susan Glick — primary (person)
  • Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
  • James Tomes — coauthor (person)
  • Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
  • Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)
  • Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
  • Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2023-01-09 Authored by Senators Leising and Becker
  • 2023-01-09 First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-01-19 Senator Glick added as third author
  • 2023-01-26 Senator Tomes added as coauthor
  • 2023-02-23 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-02-27 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-02-27 Senator Randolph added as coauthor
  • 2023-02-28 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 42, nays 7 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-02-28 House sponsor: Representative Behning
  • 2023-02-28 Cosponsors: Representatives Davis M, Klinker, Smith, V.
  • 2023-03-01 Referred to the House referral
  • 2023-03-06 First reading: referred to Committee on Education reading-1, referral-committee
  • 2023-04-10 Committee report: amend do pass, adopted committee-passage
  • 2023-04-12 Second reading: ordered engrossed reading-2
  • 2023-04-13 Third reading: passed; Roll Call 409: yeas 95, nays 0 passage, reading-3, reading-3
  • 2023-04-13 Returned to the Senate with amendments receipt
  • 2023-04-18 Motion to dissent filed filing
  • 2023-04-18 Senate dissented from House amendments
  • 2023-04-18 Senate conferees appointed: Leising and Ford J.D.
  • 2023-04-18 Senate advisors appointed: Hunley, Becker and Glick
  • 2023-04-18 House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
  • 2023-04-18 House advisors appointed: Davis, Payne, Klinker and Pfaff
  • 2023-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the Senate filing
  • 2023-04-24 CCR # 1 filed in the House filing
  • 2023-04-25 Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 496: yeas 84, nays 0
  • 2023-04-25 Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 482: yeas 36, nays 13
  • 2023-04-26 Signed by the President Pro Tempore passage
  • 2023-04-28 Signed by the President of the Senate passage
  • 2023-05-01 Signed by the Speaker passage
  • 2023-05-04 Public Law 169 became-law
  • 2023-05-04 Signed by the Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4a30d891-e8c1-4ae8-9172-2497c4dd8c10. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).