republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/sb-167.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to public school students' communication skills.	Amend KRS 156.160 to require cursive writing to be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to establish a public high school graduation requirement that a student demonstrate the ability to sign his or her own name in cursive; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the section and create a waiver process for students physically unable to demonstrate a cursive signature; require all public high schools to offer a course in typing and cursive writing; direct Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for the course; require successful completion of the course to be a graduation requirement from the 2025-2026 school year through the 2028-2029 school year.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	SB 167	Kentucky SB 167 (2024RS)	bill	Administrative Regulations and Proceedings Boards and Commissions Children and Minors Education Elementary and Secondary	enacted	G. Neal L. Tichenor M. Wilson M. Wise S. Funke Frommeyer	3	21	2	2024-02-02T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-17T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1f595922-d27f-47b6-be0b-6be6d08055ca	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb167.html	7e2abd020e601b02e246600df1de178d09bfcfd0f1d5a480402d3287cc7f2941	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SB 167 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to public school students' communication skills.

Amend KRS 156.160 to require cursive writing to be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to establish a public high school graduation requirement that a student demonstrate the ability to sign his or her own name in cursive; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the section and create a waiver process for students physically unable to demonstrate a cursive signature; require all public high schools to offer a course in typing and cursive writing; direct Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for the course; require successful completion of the course to be a graduation requirement from the 2025-2026 school year through the 2028-2029 school year.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 203 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage — pass (pass) · upper
• PASS SB 167 W/ scs1 — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• G. Neal — primary (person)
• L. Tichenor — primary (person)
• M. Wilson — primary (person)
• M. Wise — primary (person)
• S. Funke Frommeyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 05, 2024
• 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 37-1 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed amendment-introduction
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 placed in the Orders of the Day
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 87-10 passage, reading-3
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2024-04-17T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 203) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f595922-d27f-47b6-be0b-6be6d08055ca. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).