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Senate Bill S1376

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires all required literacy classes for teachers to include the structured multisensory approach

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2021-S1376 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2217
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4342, A6450
2023-2024: S6713, A4659
2025-2026: S6400, A3937

2021-S1376 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring the commissioner of education to establish and enforce rules and regulations to incorporate the structured multisensory approach into the already required literacy curriculum for all teachers.

2021-S1376 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1376 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1376
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, GALLIVAN, JACKSON, KENNEDY, KRUEGER, SKOUFIS
   -- 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  the  structured  multisensory  approach  into all required
   literacy courses for prospective teachers
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 57 to read as follows:
   57. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH AND ENFORCE RULES AND REGULATIONS
 REQUIRING  EVERY  INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION THAT OFFERS A GRADUATE
 OR UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE OR CERTIFICATION PROGRAM IN EDUCATION OR  EDUCA-
 TIONAL  ADMINISTRATION LOCATED WITHIN THE STATE TO INCORPORATE EVIDENCE-
 BASED, EFFECTIVE  METHODS  OF  TEACHING  READING,  WHICH  SHALL  INCLUDE
 INSTRUCTION  IN  DIRECT AND EXPLICIT STRUCTURED MULTISENSORY APPROACHES,
 ALSO KNOWN AS STRUCTURED LITERACY, WITHIN THE CURRENT REQUIRED  LITERACY
 CURRICULUM.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01127-01-1

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