republic-os/legislation/us/states/ok/2024/hb-3727.md

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Bill	Schools; requiring students in the third through fifth grades to receive instruction in cursive handwriting; effective date; emergency.	Schools; requiring students in the third through fifth grades to receive instruction in cursive handwriting; effective date; emergency.	us/states/ok	Oklahoma Legislature	2024	HB 3727	Oklahoma HB 3727 (2024)	bill		enacted	Lowe (Jason) Matthews	5	26	4	2024-02-05	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/bc459175-4113-4ebf-b36a-8987da6e428e	http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB3727&session=2400	ba670cdf8a644b2d5590dcd5aef4bd0ed90a5683e100b737cb7cf591d5fa7912	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ok

Oklahoma HB 3727 (2024) — Schools; requiring students in the third through fifth grades to receive instruction in cursive handwriting; effective date; emergency.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 INT/hB/HB3727 INT.PDF)
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENGR/hB/HB3727 ENGR.PDF)
3. Enrolled (final version) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 ENR/hB/HB3727 ENR.PDF)
4. Floor (House) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/HFLR/HB3727 HFLR.PDF)
5. Floor (Senate) (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2023-24 FLR/SFLR/HB3727 SFLR.PDF)

Votes

• Third Reading — 90–8 (pass) · lower
• Common Education Committee: Do Pass — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Third Reading — 38–8 (pass) · upper
• Education — 13–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lowe (Jason) — primary (person)
• Matthews — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-05 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-05 Authored by Representative Lowe (Jason)
• 2024-02-06 Second Reading referred to Common Education reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-02-20 CR; Do Pass Common Education Committee committee-passage
• 2024-02-20 Authored by Senator Matthews (principal Senate author)
• 2024-03-06 General Order
• 2024-03-06 Coauthored by Representative(s) West (Tammy)
• 2024-03-06 Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 90 Nays: 8 passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Referred for engrossment
• 2024-03-07 Engrossed, signed, to Senate passage
• 2024-03-07 First Reading introduction, reading-1
• 2024-03-07 Coauthored by Representative Goodwin
• 2024-03-19 Second Reading referred to Education reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-09 Reported Do Pass Education committee; CR filed committee-passage
• 2024-04-16 General Order, Considered
• 2024-04-16 Measure passed: Ayes: 38 Nays: 8 passage
• 2024-04-16 Emergency passed: Ayes: 41 Nays: 5
• 2024-04-16 Engrossed measure signed, returned to House passage
• 2024-04-16 Coauthored by Senator Floyd
• 2024-04-16 Coauthored by Senator Stephens
• 2024-04-16 Coauthored by Senator Jett
• 2024-04-16 Referred for enrollment
• 2024-04-17 Enrolled, signed, to Senate
• 2024-04-17 Enrolled measure signed, returned to House
• 2024-04-17 Sent to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-04-23 Approved by Governor 04/22/2024 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bc459175-4113-4ebf-b36a-8987da6e428e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).