Amendment ID: S2924-23-R1

Redraft Amendment 23

Reporting from the early literacy fund

Messrs. Tarr, O'Connor and Montigny and Mrs. Dooner move that the proposed new text be amended in section 1, in proposed section 2OOOOOO of chapter 29 of the General laws, by inserting the following subsection:-

"(d) Annually, not later than December 31, the department shall submit a report on the receipts and expenditures of the fund and file the report with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives, the senate and house committees on ways and means and the joint committee on education. The department shall make the report publicly available on the department’s website.”; and

in section 3, by inserting after the word “teachers”, in line 72, the words:- “, special education teachers”; and

in section 11, by inserting after the word "benchmark, in line 134, the following words:- "; provided, however, that said screening procedures and protocols shall account for the needs of English language learners".