Bill Text: NY S06713 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6713

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate at least a three credit course devoted to the instructional techniques necessary for effective literacy instruction which shall include delivering structured, systematic, explicit, evidence-based instruction in reading, including but not limited to those incorporating multisensory instruction for current and prospective teachers.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S06713 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6713

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the incorpo-
          ration of structured, explicit, language-based multisensory approaches
          to literacy instruction into at least three credits of the six credits
          of literacy courses currently required  for  prospective  teachers  in
          accredited college of education programs

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 57 to read as follows:
     3    57. The commissioner shall establish and enforce rules and regulations
     4  requiring every institution of higher education that offers  a  graduate
     5  or  undergraduate degree or certification program in education or educa-
     6  tional administration located within the state to incorporate at least a
     7  three-credit course devoted to the  instructional  techniques  necessary
     8  for effective literacy instruction. Such course shall impart to prospec-
     9  tive  and current teachers language-based, effective methods of teaching
    10  reading, which  shall  include  instruction  in  delivering  structured,
    11  systematic,  explicit,  evidence-based instruction in reading, including
    12  but not limited to those incorporating  multisensory  instruction,  also
    13  known  as  structured  literacy,  within  the  current required literacy
    14  curriculum.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02635-02-3