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89th General Assembly · Funnel one-pager · Monday, November 9, 2026

SF 2351: Requiring cursive instruction for students enrolled in public elementary schools

Died when the session ended · The 2022 session adjourned on May 24, 2022, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died.

What it does

This bill requires school districts to incorporate cursive handwriting instruction into the curriculum with the goal of making students proficient in reading cursive and legibly writing in cursive by the end of the third grade. The provisions of the bill do not apply to nonpublic schools.3.16.2. The inclusion of this specification is intended to reinstate the requirement of political subdivisions to comply with any state mandates included in the bill.

Sponsors

Education committee

Cost

Cost: up to $575,000

Senate File 2351 does not have a fiscal impact to the State. The number of school districts that currently have cursive writing curriculum in place is unknown. The cost for cursive curriculum to be taught at one grade level statewide is expected to be an estim…

Lobbying · 0 for, 3 against

Against: Rural School Advocates of Iowa; School Administrators of Iowa; Urban Education Network of Iowa

In plain words

  1. February 21, 2022Filed in the Senate
  2. February 21, 2022Approved by the Senate committee
  3. February 22, 2022Cost estimate (fiscal note) posted
  4. March 24, 2022Sent to the Senate Education committee

From public records at legis.iowa.gov, compiled by Funnel (iowafunnel.com), an independent, nonpartisan site. Current as of Monday, November 9, 2026. https://iowafunnel.com/bills/89/SF2351