KY HB226 | 2022 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: Engrossed on February 7 2022 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2022-03-03 - reassigned to Education (S)
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Summary

Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programming, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to define new terms; replace references to "response to intervention" systems with "multi-tiered system of supports"; require a local board of education to adopt and implement a reading universal screener and reading diagnostic assessment by January 1, 2023; permit a local school district to adopt a common comprehensive reading program for K-3; require all K-3 teachers to be trained in any reading diagnostic assessment and universal screener adopted by a local board; establish requirements for the administration of reading universal screeners by grade-level; define and establish the requirements for a reading improvement plan; establish service requirements for a student that needs accelerated intervention as demonstrated by the results of the approved reading diagnostic assessment or state annually required grade 3 assessment; require the department to establish reading teacher academies or coaching models by September 1, 2023, if funds are appropriated; remove the requirement for KDE to provide an annual report to IJCE on academic interventions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require postsecondary institutions offering early childhood or elementary teacher preparation programs to include designated instruction; require the EPSB to maintain a list of approved reading teacher preparation tests; require all new teachers seeking certification in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education or Elementary School to take an approved reading teacher preparation test; amend KRS 158.840 to require CPE to submit an annual report to IJCE on the compliance of teacher preparation programs to this Act; require regular reports to an external evaluator; amend KRS 164.0207 to redefine existing terms; require the Board of Education to pass administrative regulations that prioritize schools with the most need and schools that have not received a grant in the previous cycle when awarding reading diagnostic and intervention grants; amend KRS 158.794 to reorganize the composition of the reading diagnostic and intervention grant steering committee; amend KRS 164.0207 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish and define the read to succeed fund; provide that moneys and interest in the fund shall not lapse; designate the Act as the Read to Succeed Act.

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Title

AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2022-02-07 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 93 (Y: 86 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2022-03-03Senatereassigned to Education (S)
2022-02-08Senateto Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2022-02-07Senateto Committee on Committees (S)
2022-02-07Senatereceived in Senate
2022-02-07House3rd reading, passed 86-7 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
2022-02-02Houseposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 03, 2022
2022-02-02House2nd reading, to Rules
2022-02-01Housereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
2022-01-19Houseto Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2022-01-05Houseto Committee on Committees (H)
2022-01-05Houseintroduced in House

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Bill Comments

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