After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in workbooks.

“It’s just important that we continue to teach our youth how to sign their name,” Reynolds-Jackson, D-Mercer, said. “You get a mortgage, you print and sign. When you go for your driver’s license, you sign. When you open a bank account or your passport, you have to sign.”

As digital learning continues to expand, a bill is ready to go to the full Florida House that would require public elementary-school students to learn cursive writing.

Florida state Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, has filed a Senate version of the bill (SB 1394), which has not been heard in committees.

A new bill going through the Florida capitol would make cursive writing more of a priority in schools in the state.