STATE OF NEW YORK
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10968
IN ASSEMBLY
April 14, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. R. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring training of
teachers in dyslexia identification
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3004 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner is
4 authorized and directed to certify and require training of teachers in
5 dyslexia identification. Such certification and training shall be
6 required to receive or renew a certification to teach kindergarten
7 through fifth grade. The commissioner shall prescribe the necessary
8 regulations and establish such training related to the identification of
9 children with dyslexia. Such training and training requirements shall be
10 obtained from the center for dyslexia and dysgraphia established under
11 section three hundred nineteen of this chapter, as added by chapter six
12 hundred fifteen of the laws of two thousand twenty-five, and the center
13 for dyslexia and dysgraphia shall include in such training and training
14 requirements curricula standards, number of hours of training required,
15 requirements for providers of the training, and requirements for demon-
16 strating successful completion of the required training.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
18 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
19 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
20 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
21 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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