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SENATE BILL NO. 904 AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE (Proposed by the House Committee on Education on February 24, 2020) (Patron Prior to Substitute--Senator Vogel) A BILL to direct the State Council of Higher Education to examine certain methods and research relating to reading instruction; report.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia shall, in consultation with such stakeholders as it deems appropriate, examine (i) the latest evidence-based methods and approaches to effectively educate public elementary and secondary school students in reading, including multisensory structured language education to instruct students with dyslexia, and (ii) the latest reliable research for reading instruction for all public elementary and secondary school students, with an emphasis on improving reading instruction to students with dyslexia, and report its findings and any recommendations to the Chairmen of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health no later than December 1, 2020.