INDIANAPOLIS (AP): An Indiana lawmaker is renewing her push to require schools to teach cursive writing.

Republican Sen. Jean Leising of Oldenburg added the measure to an education bill that would replace the ISTEP+ exam on Wednesday after a cursive bill she sponsored earlier in the session failed.

Leising says she expects the bill to go to a conference committee. House Republican spokeswoman Tory Flynn says no decision has been made.

The Indiana State Board of Education eliminated cursive as a requirement for student instruction in 2011 in favor of keyboard proficiency.

Leising sponsored cursive writing bills in 2012, 2013 and 2014 that failed. She says she fears younger generations won't be able to write cursive or read documents like the U.S. Constitution if cursive isn't required.