The handwritten thank-you notes senators received recently from their teenage legislative pages may have helped push the bill through, Ms. Leising says.

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Democrat Baron Hill, a member of the state House, picked up Indiana's 9th for the Democrats, defeating Republican Jean Leising, a state senator.

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Jean Leising, the bill's sponsor, said more than 90% of the 1, 000 constituents she surveyed in her rural district said they favored teaching cursive.

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