Bill Text: NY S00307 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all incarcerated individuals who do not have a high-school diploma or its equivalent to receive a reading proficiency-level assessment and dyslexia screening upon intake; requires for such individuals who perform below a certain proficiency level to be provided with dyslexia intervention that is evidence-based effective and consistent with science-based research specifically tailored to addressing dyslexia.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-21 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S00307 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00307-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           307

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced by Sens. MYRIE, BAILEY, GOUNARDES, HOYLMAN, JACKSON, KRUEGER,
          RIVERA,  SALAZAR, SKOUFIS, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Crime  Victims,
          Crime and Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to a reading proficiency
          level assessment and dyslexia screening for incarcerated individuals

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 137-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 137-a. Reading proficiency level assessment and dyslexia  screening.
     4  1.  As  part  of the intake process, an incarcerated individual who does
     5  not have a high school diploma or its equivalent shall receive a reading
     6  proficiency level assessment and dyslexia screening. If an  incarcerated
     7  individual  demonstrates  that  he or she is below the proficiency level
     8  required to be a  high-functioning  reader,  such  individual  shall  be
     9  provided  with  dyslexia intervention that is evidence-based, effective,
    10  and consistent with  science-based  research  specifically  tailored  to
    11  addressing dyslexia.
    12    2.  The  commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of educa-
    13  tion, shall promulgate rules and regulations that require, but  are  not
    14  limited to the following:
    15    (a) Teachers at all correctional facilities shall have and demonstrate
    16  awareness of the best practices of scientific reading instruction;
    17    (b)  Each inmate who does not have a high school diploma or its equiv-
    18  alent shall receive a reading proficiency level assessment and a  dysle-
    19  xia screening; and
    20    (c)  A  process be established in which incarcerated individuals, upon
    21  intake, are assessed and administered a dyslexia screening, and provided
    22  with  dyslexia  intervention  that  is  evidence-based,  effective,  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01117-01-1
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     1  consistent with science-based research specifically tailored to address-
     2  ing dyslexia.
     3    3.  Each  superintendent  shall  submit  a plan to the department that
     4  allows incarcerated individuals to voluntarily receive a reading  profi-
     5  ciency  level  assessment,  dyslexia  screening, and reading instruction
     6  that is evidence-based, effective,  and  consistent  with  science-based
     7  research specifically tailored to addressing dyslexia.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment  and/or
    10  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    11  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    12  on or before such date.