Authorizes school districts and charter schools to provide instruction in cursive writing

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Authorizes school districts and charter schools to provide instruction in cursive writing

The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1378 - This act authorizes school districts and charter schools to provide instruction in cursive writing to all students by the end of fifth grade and to ensure that each student passes a teacher-constructed test demonstrating competency in both reading and writing cursive.

What This Bill Does

• The following summaries of this bill are available: Print All Summaries Introduced Print SB 1378 - This act authorizes school districts and charter schools to provide instruction in cursive writing to all students by the end of fifth grade and to ensure that each student passes a teacher-constructed test demonstrating competency in both reading and writing cursive.
• This act is identical to SB 429 (2025) and a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 1569 (2024), and is similar to HB 1876 (2026), HB 2049 (2026), HCS/HBs 2115 & 1876 (2026), HB 2773 (2026), HB 346 (2025), HB 375 (2025), HB 906 (2025), HB 1237 (2025), SB 1462 (2024), HB 1502 (2024), HB 2094 (2024), HB 2852 (2024), SB 664 (2023), HB 232 (2023), HB 2073 (2022), SB 1071 (2020), HB 1262 (2020), HB 54 (2019), HB 2614 (2018), and a provision in HB 108 (2021).
• OLIVIA SHANNON

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Official Summary Text

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SB 1378 - This act authorizes school districts and charter schools to provide instruction in cursive writing to all students by the end of fifth grade and to ensure that each student passes a teacher-constructed test demonstrating competency in both reading and writing cursive.

This act is identical to SB 429 (2025) and a provision in SCS/HCS/HB 1569 (2024), and is similar to HB 1876 (2026), HB 2049 (2026), HCS/HBs 2115 & 1876 (2026), HB 2773 (2026), HB 346 (2025), HB 375 (2025), HB 906 (2025), HB 1237 (2025), SB 1462 (2024), HB 1502 (2024), HB 2094 (2024), HB 2852 (2024), SB 664 (2023), HB 232 (2023), HB 2073 (2022), SB 1071 (2020), HB 1262 (2020), HB 54 (2019), HB 2614 (2018), and a provision in HB 108 (2021).
OLIVIA SHANNON

Current Bill Text

SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1378
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR TRENT.
4694S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To amend chapter 170, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to instruction in cursive
writing.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 170, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto 1
one new section, to be known as section 170.025, to read as 2
follows:3
170.025. Each school district and charter school may 1
establish a program designed to ensure that: 2
(1) Each elementary school under the control of such 3
school district or charter school provides instruction in 4
cursive writing so that students create readable documents 5
through legible cursive handwriting by the end of the fifth 6
grade; and 7
(2) Each student passes with proficiency a teacher- 8
constructed test demonstrating competency in both reading 9
and writing cursive. 10
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