Bill Text: NY A02062 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-01-26 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [A02062 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A02062-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2062 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON, TAYLOR -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ASHBY, BARRON, CRUZ, DICKENS, EPSTEIN, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, HUNT- ER, LUPARDO, O'DONNELL, RA, REYES, SAYEGH, THIELE, WEPRIN -- 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01117-01-1A. 2062 2 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.