HB 170  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2023 SESSION

23-0513

09/10

 

HOUSE BILL 170

 

AN ACT requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Hobson, Rock. 14; Rep. Ball, Rock. 25; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 5; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 38

 

COMMITTEE: Education

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires school boards to teach cursive handwriting and the memorization of multiplication tables.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0513

09/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Cursive Handwriting and Memorization of Multiplication Tables.  Amend RSA 189:11-c to read as follows:

189:11-c  Cursive Handwriting and Memorization of Multiplication Tables.  The school board of each school district is [encouraged] required to provide instruction in cursive handwriting and memorization of multiplication tables.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.