SCHOOLS
OKLAHOMA 2024 SESSION LAW SERVICE Fifty-Ninth Legislature, 2024 Second Regular Session
2024 Okla. Sess. Law Serv. Ch. 50 (H.B. 3727) (WEST)
OKLAHOMA 2024 SESSION LAW SERVICE
Fifty-Ninth Legislature, 2024 Second Regular Session
CHAPTER 50
H.B. No. 3727
SCHOOLS
An Act relating to schools; requiring students in the third through fifth grades to receive instruction in cursive handwriting; providing for competency in reading and legibly writing in cursive by specified time; providing for codification; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
SUBJECT: Schools
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 11–103.16 of Title 70, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
<< OK ST T. 70 § 11–103.16 >>
Beginning in the 2024–2025 school year, each school district and charter school shall provide instruction in cursive handwriting for students in the third through fifth grades. The instruction shall be designed to enable students to demonstrate competency in reading cursive and legibly writing in cursive by the end of fifth grade.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective July 1, 2024.
SECTION 3. It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.
Approved April 22, 2024.
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