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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee&nbspVotes Floor&nbspVotes Memo Text LFIN Chamber&nbspVideo/Transcript S10235 Summary: BILL NO S10235A &nbsp SAME AS SAME AS A01186-A

&nbsp SPONSOR SALAZAR &nbsp COSPNSR CLEARE, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HELMING, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MYRIE, SKOUFIS &nbsp MLTSPNSR &nbsp Add §320, Ed L &nbsp Requires school districts to conduct mandatory early screening for dyslexia for all children commencing in pre-kindergarten or kindergarten and continuing thereafter on an annual basis until each child successfully completes second grade; requires school districts to designate an individual to maintain complete and accurate records containing early screening reports for each child, and to provide resources and materials to the parent and/or guardian of any child who displays indications of dyslexia.

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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

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IN SENATE

May 7, 2026 ___________

Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, CLEARE, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, HARCKHAM, HELMING, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MYRIE, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa- tion -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to mandatory early screening for dyslexia

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 320 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 320. Mandatory early screening for dyslexia. 1. All school districts 4 shall be required to conduct full and individual screenings in accord- 5 ance with this section for purposes of early identification, support, 6 intervention and accommodation of children with dyslexia and other 7 learning disabilities. For purposes of this section, the term "dyslexia" 8 means a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin 9 and that is characterized by unexpected difficulties with accurate or 10 fluent word recognition and poor spelling and decoding abilities, which 11 difficulty typically results from a deficit in the phonological compo- 12 nent of language and that is inconsistent with the person's intelli- 13 gence, motivation, and sensory capabilities and the provision of effec- 14 tive instruction. 15 2. Mandatory early screening for dyslexia shall be conducted by each 16 school district using an assessment tool that includes targeted ques- 17 tions and student tasks designed to quickly and reliably gather certain 18 relevant functional and developmental information consistent with the 19 research findings in this area and supported by the findings in the 20 Report of the National Reading Panel from 2000, from all children 21 screened pursuant to this section. Such questions and tasks shall be 22 aligned with developmental benchmarks in specific precursors correlated 23 with reading acquisition based on the recognized reading science. 24 Mandatory early screening shall commence during pre-kindergarten or 25 kindergarten, whichever is earlier, and shall continue thereafter on an

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02870-04-6

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1 annual basis until such child has successfully completed the second 2 grade. The assessment tools used shall be selected from an approved 3 list of tools deemed to be valid and reliable, with training and subse- 4 quent coaching provided to teachers to ensure fidelity to the assessment 5 model as per the research methodology provided in the development of 6 such tools. 7 3. Upon completion of the administration of each mandatory early 8 screening, a copy of each early screening report and any other findings 9 shall be given to the parent and/or guardian and teachers and teaching 10 assistants of each child identified as at risk for reading failure, and 11 the individual designated in subdivision four of this section. 12 4. Each school district shall designate an individual to maintain 13 complete and accurate records, including copies of each early screening 14 report, for all children for the duration of each child's educational 15 pursuit or until such child reaches the age of sixteen, whichever is 16 later. The designated individual shall provide resources and materials 17 to the parent and/or guardian of any child who displays low phonemic 18 awareness and other indications of dyslexia. 19 5. School districts shall ensure that the assessment results are used 20 in a proactive manner, ensuring that findings of risk for reading fail- 21 ure are followed up immediately by the provision of evidence-based meth- 22 ods of instruction and intervention in the identified areas of need to 23 ensure that risk does not turn into failure. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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