| Last Action | 03/03/22: reassigned to Education (S) |
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| Title | AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. |
| Bill Documents |
Current/Final
Introduced |
| Fiscal Impact Statement | Fiscal Note |
| Bill Request Number | 1024 |
| Sponsors | J. Tipton, T. Bojanowski, D. Bentley, K. Bratcher, C. Massey, K. Moser, R. Palumbo |
| Summary of Original Version | Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programming, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to define new terms; replace references to "response to intervention" systems with "multi-tiered system of supports"; require a local board of education to adopt and implement a reading universal screener and reading diagnostic assessment by January 1, 2023; permit a local school district to adopt a common comprehensive reading program for K-3; require all K-3 teachers to be trained in any reading diagnostic assessment and universal screener adopted by a local board; establish requirements for the administration of reading universal screeners by grade-level; define and establish the requirements for a reading improvement plan; establish service requirements for a student that needs accelerated intervention as demonstrated by the results of the approved reading diagnostic assessment or state annually required grade 3 assessment; require the department to establish reading teacher academies or coaching models by September 1, 2023, if funds are appropriated; remove the requirement for KDE to provide an annual report to IJCE on academic interventions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require postsecondary institutions offering early childhood or elementary teacher preparation programs to include designated instruction; require the EPSB to maintain a list of approved reading teacher preparation tests; require all new teachers seeking certification in Interdisciplinary Early Childhood Education or Elementary School to take an approved reading teacher preparation test; amend KRS 158.840 to require CPE to submit an annual report to IJCE on the compliance of teacher preparation programs to this Act; require regular reports to an external evaluator; amend KRS 164.0207 to redefine existing terms; require the Board of Education to pass administrative regulations that prioritize schools with the most need and schools that have not received a grant in the previous cycle when awarding reading diagnostic and intervention grants; amend KRS 158.794 to reorganize the composition of the reading diagnostic and intervention grant steering committee; amend KRS 164.0207 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish and define the read to succeed fund; provide that moneys and interest in the fund shall not lapse; designate the Act as the Read to Succeed Act. |
| Index Headings of Original Version |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Early literacy education, requirements Education, Elementary and Secondary - Read to succeed fund, creation, purpose Education, Finance - Department of Education, role in early literacy education, defining Education, Higher - Teacher preparation programs, early literacy instruction, teacher preparation test, requiring State Agencies - School districts, early literacy education, requirements Teachers - Training, reading diagnostic assessment and universal screener, requiring Universities and Colleges - Teacher preparation programs, early literacy instruction, teacher preparation test, requiring Children and Minors - Early literacy education, requirements Boards and Commissions - EPSB, early literacy teacher preparation tests, list of approved tests, maintenance Short Titles and Popular Names - The Read to Succeed Act Fiscal Note - Early literacy education, requirements |
| Jump to Proposed Amendments |
House Committee Substitute 1 House Committee Amendment 1 |
| Votes | Vote History |
| 01/05/22 |
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| 01/19/22 |
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| 03/03/22 |
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| Amendment | House Committee Substitute 1 |
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| Summary | Retain all original provisions; amend KRS 158.305 to provide that a superintendent shall select at least one universal screener and one reading diagnostic assessment for the district; provide that a superintendent may elect to adopt a common comprehensive reading program; amend KRS 158.792 to include the employment of reading interventionists as a purpose of the reading diagnostic and intervention fund; prevent the state board of education from limiting grant recipients from expending grant funds for authorized purposes; direct that grant applications currently under consideration shall be subject to Section 5 this Act; EMERGENCY. |
| Index Headings |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Literacy, universal screeners and reading diagnostic assessments, selection of superintendent Education, Finance - Reading diagnostic and intervention grant, reading interventionist Effective Dates, Emergency - Read to Succeed Act Teachers - Reading diagnostic and intervention grant, reading interventionist Boards and Commissions - Kentucky Board of Education, reading diagnostic and intervention grant |
| Amendment | House Committee Amendment 1 |
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| Sponsor | J. Tipton |
| Summary | Make title amendment. |
| Index Headings | Title Amendments - HB 226 |
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