Senate Bill S4342

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S4342 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6450
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S1376, A2217
2023-2024: S6713, A4659

2019-S4342 (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.

2019-S4342 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4342 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4342
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on 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.
                                                            LBD10261-03-9

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