Bill Text: NY A02062 | 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: 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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
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        A. 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.