Assembly Bill A6610

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Addresses the elementary literacy gap by empowering student and parental engagement with an evidence-based home reading program

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  • 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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2023-A6610 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6983
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A10691

2023-A6610 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides grants to nonprofit organizations that provide eligible home reading programs that provide independent reading level books that are individually mailed to the residences of kindergarten through fifth grade students on a weekly basis.

2023-A6610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6610
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to address the elementary literacy gap by empowering student  and
   parental engagement with an evidence-based home reading program
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. If equally matched by participating local  education  agen-
 cies,  there  is  allocated from the state's Coronavirus relief funds an
 amount not to exceed $500,000 for fiscal year 2024 for grants  to  local
 education agencies for an eligible home reading program. Funds allocated
 under  this  section  are  grant  funds  and  must be distributed by the
 department of education  with  a  focus  on  economically  disadvantaged
 households.  A  program  is  eligible  for  these  grant  funds if it is
 provided by a nonprofit organization and  meets  all  of  the  following
 criteria:
   (a)  The  program's objective is to deliver an evidence-based self-se-
 lected reading program consisting of  independent  reading  level  books
 that  are  individually mailed to the residences of kindergarten through
 fifth grade students on a weekly basis.
   (b) The program incorporates at least weekly  phone  calls,  texts  or
 application  notifications in multiple languages to a parent or guardian
 to drive parental and family engagement throughout the duration  of  the
 program.
   (c)  The  program provides at least six and not more than nine student
 selected new books that students get to keep.
   (d) The program builds on pedagogical and literacy principles to scaf-
 fold fluency to improve reading comprehension with student exercises.
   (e) The program includes a customizable portal to generate individual-
 ized data reports for analysis of student progress.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10897-01-3
 A. 6610                             2

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