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C.18A:35-4.53

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P.L. 2025, CHAPTER 284, approved January 19, 2026

Senate Committee Substitute (First Reprint)

for Senate, Nos. 1783 and 2712

An Act concerning instruction on cursive handwriting in the public school curriculum and supplementing chapter 35 of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

     1.    A school district shall incorporate instruction on cursive handwriting into the curriculum for students in grades ¹[kindergarten] three¹ through five. The curriculum shall include activities and instructional materials that help students become proficient in reading cursive and ¹legibly¹ writing in cursive ¹[legibly]¹ by the end of grade ¹[three] five¹.

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately and shall first apply to the first full school year next following the date of enactment.

     Requires instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum for grades three through five.