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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
HOUSE BILL 1769 By: Dobrinski
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to schools; requiring the Oklahoma
State Department of Education to maintain the
dyslexia informational handbook; requ iring annual
review and necessary revisions of the handbook with
certain stakeholders; allowing revisions to include
certain information; providing for codification; and
providing an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF O KLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1210.517 of Title 70, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Oklahoma State Department of Edu cation shall maintain
the dyslexia handbook created by the Dyslexia and Education Task
Force pursuant to Section 1 of Chapter 261 of the 2017 Oklahoma
Session Laws that includes guidance, technical assistance and
training to assist all local school systems , students and families
in the implementation of evidence -based practices for instructing
students with characteristics of dyslexia.
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B. The Department shall review the handbook and make revisions
as necessary on an annual basis with stake holders, including, but
not limited to, previous members of the Dyslexia and Education Task
Force and the Oklahoma Advisory Panel created pursuant to Part B of
the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Previous members
of the task force shall be consulted when maki ng revisions to the
handbook. Members of the task force not available for the annual
review shall be replaced by individual s meeting the criteria of his
or her original appointee and maintain the original composition of
the task force.
C. Any revisions to the handbook shall include, but not be
limited to, the following information for local school systems
screening students in kindergarten and grades one through three who
have been identified through the response -to-intervention process as
having characteristics of dyslexia:
1. Evidence-based practices designed specifically for students
with characteristics of dyslexia;
2. Characteristics of targeted instruction for dyslexia;
3. Guidance on developing instructional plans for students with
characteristics of dyslexia;
4. Best practices toward meaning -centered reading and writing;
5. Developmentally appropriate curricula and engaging
instructional materials and practices;
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6. Structured multisensory approaches to teach language and
reading skills;
7. Suggested training programs; and
8. Guidance on dysgraphia and dyscalculia.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2021 .
58-1-5954 AMM 01/10/21