Bill Text: NY S01285 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of education to certify or require the training of teachers, administrators and instructors in the area of dyslexia and related disorders.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S01285 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01285-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1285--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, BOYLE, HELMING, SKOUFIS, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the certification or training of teachers, administrators and instructors in the area of dyslexia and related disorders The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 3004 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 484 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner is 5 authorized and empowered to certify or require training of teachers, 6 administrators and instructors in the area of autistic needs. The 7 commissioner shall have the power to prescribe the necessary regulations 8 and establish such programs and training related to the needs of autis- 9 tic children. Such programs and training shall be obtained from an 10 institution or provider which has been approved by the department to 11 provide such programs and training, except that a school district or 12 board of cooperative educational services may provide such training as 13 part of its professional development program. 14 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner is 15 authorized and empowered to certify or require training of teachers, 16 administrators and instructors in the area of dyslexia and related 17 disorders. The commissioner shall have the power to prescribe the neces- 18 sary regulations and establish such programs and training related to the 19 needs of students of dyslexia and related disorders. Such programs and 20 training shall be obtained from an institution or provider which has 21 been approved by the department to provide such programs and training, 22 except that a school district or board of cooperative educational 23 services may provide such training as part of its professional develop- 24 ment program. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03550-02-1