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type: "Bill"
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title: "Reporting on school curriculum."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
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legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "SB 72"
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citation: "Indiana SB 72 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["EDUCATION generally", "LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL; LEGISLATIVE SERVICES AGENCY", "SCHOOLS", "Curricula"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jean Leising", "Robert Behning", "Susan Glick", "Vaneta Becker"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2023-01-09"
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last_action: "2023-05-04"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a30d891-e8c1-4ae8-9172-2497c4dd8c10"
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source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/72"
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source_hash: "fc39b303cd4947027c11c1ae3ec0cb36d47b1a635c0d6928cb052375e73de9b3"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
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---
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# Indiana SB 72 (2023) — Reporting on school curriculum.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0072/versions/SB0072.04.ENRH)
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2. **Introduced Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0072/versions/SB0072.01.INTR)
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3. **Senate Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0072/versions/SB0072.03.COMH)
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4. **Senate Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2023/bills/SB0072/versions/SB0072.02.COMS)
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## Votes
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- SB 72 - Behning - 3rd Reading — **95–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Jean Leising — primary (person)
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- Robert Behning — primary (person)
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- Susan Glick — primary (person)
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- Vaneta Becker — primary (person)
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- James Tomes — coauthor (person)
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- Lonnie Randolph — coauthor (person)
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- Michelle Davis — cosponsor (person)
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- Sheila Klinker — cosponsor (person)
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- Vernon Smith — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-09** Authored by Senators Leising and Becker
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- **2023-01-09** First reading: referred to Committee on Education and Career Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-19** Senator Glick added as third author
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- **2023-01-26** Senator Tomes added as coauthor
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- **2023-02-23** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2023-02-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2023-02-27** Senator Randolph added as coauthor
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- **2023-02-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 182: yeas 42, nays 7 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2023-02-28** House sponsor: Representative Behning
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- **2023-02-28** Cosponsors: Representatives Davis M, Klinker, Smith, V.
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- **2023-03-01** Referred to the House `referral`
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- **2023-03-06** First reading: referred to Committee on Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-10** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
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- **2023-04-12** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
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- **2023-04-13** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 409: yeas 95, nays 0 `passage, reading-3, reading-3`
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- **2023-04-13** Returned to the Senate with amendments `receipt`
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- **2023-04-18** Motion to dissent filed `filing`
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- **2023-04-18** Senate dissented from House amendments
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- **2023-04-18** Senate conferees appointed: Leising and Ford J.D.
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- **2023-04-18** Senate advisors appointed: Hunley, Becker and Glick
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- **2023-04-18** House conferees appointed: Behning and Smith V
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- **2023-04-18** House advisors appointed: Davis, Payne, Klinker and Pfaff
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- **2023-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate `filing`
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- **2023-04-24** CCR # 1 filed in the House `filing`
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- **2023-04-25** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 496: yeas 84, nays 0
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- **2023-04-25** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 482: yeas 36, nays 13
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- **2023-04-26** Signed by the President Pro Tempore `passage`
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- **2023-04-28** Signed by the President of the Senate `passage`
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- **2023-05-01** Signed by the Speaker `passage`
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- **2023-05-04** Public Law 169 `became-law`
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- **2023-05-04** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a30d891-e8c1-4ae8-9172-2497c4dd8c10`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).
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