SB 9 KY

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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.

• S. West Republican · primary
• M. Wilson Republican · primary
• R. Mills Republican · primary

1. Jan 5, 2022 introduced in Senate · upper
2. Jan 5, 2022 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
3. Jan 10, 2022 to Education (S) · upper
4. Jan 13, 2022 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar · upper
5. Jan 18, 2022 2nd reading, to Rules · upper
6. Jan 18, 2022 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 19, 2022 · upper
7. Jan 19, 2022 3rd reading, passed 28-7 · upper
8. Jan 20, 2022 received in House · lower
9. Jan 20, 2022 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
10. Mar 11, 2022 to Education (H) · lower
11. Mar 15, 2022 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) · upper
12. Mar 16, 2022 2nd reading, to Rules · upper
13. Mar 16, 2022 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 17, 2022 · upper
14. Mar 17, 2022 3rd reading, passed 91-5 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) · upper
15. Mar 18, 2022 received in Senate · upper
16. Mar 18, 2022 to Rules (S) · upper
17. Mar 22, 2022 posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) · upper
18. Mar 22, 2022 Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) · upper
19. Mar 22, 2022 passed 38-0 · upper
20. Mar 22, 2022 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate · upper
21. Mar 22, 2022 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House · lower
22. Mar 22, 2022 delivered to Governor · upper
23. Mar 29, 2022 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 40) · upper

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Acts Chapter 40 · PDF
• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF