Bill Text: NY A07822 | 2019-2020 | 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; and 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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-21 - REFERRED TO RULES [A07822 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07822-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7822

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on 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
    23  consistent with science-based research specifically tailored to address-
    24  ing dyslexia.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11644-03-9
        A. 7822                             2

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