STATE OF NEW YORK
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7743--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 2, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --
recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to clarifying that the
writing requirement that is part of compulsory education includes
cursive writing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph 1 of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section
2 3204 of the education law, as amended by chapter 14 of the laws of 1958,
3 is amended to read as follows:
4 (1) The course of study for the first eight years of full time public
5 day schools shall provide for instruction in at least the twelve common
6 school branches of arithmetic, reading, spelling, writing, including
7 cursive writing, the English language, geography, United States history,
8 civics, hygiene, physical training, the history of New York state and
9 science.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to school
11 years commencing on the first of July next succeeding the date on which
12 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02047-07-6
