HB 226 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.

• J. Tipton Republican · primary
• T. Bojanowski Democratic · primary
• D. Bentley · primary
• K. Bratcher · primary
• C. Massey · primary
• K. Moser Republican · primary
• R. Palumbo · primary

1. Jan 5, 2022 introduced in House · lower
2. Jan 5, 2022 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Jan 19, 2022 to Appropriations & Revenue (H) · lower
4. Feb 1, 2022 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) · lower
5. Feb 2, 2022 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
6. Feb 2, 2022 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 03, 2022 · lower
7. Feb 7, 2022 3rd reading, passed 86-7 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) · lower
8. Feb 7, 2022 received in Senate · upper
9. Feb 7, 2022 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
10. Feb 8, 2022 to Appropriations & Revenue (S) · upper
11. Mar 3, 2022 reassigned to Education (S) · 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.

• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF