IIB 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3033 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 27, 2015 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 
Labor, and Pensions 
AN ACT 
To require the President’s annual budget request to Congress 
each year to include a line item for the Research in 
Disabilities Education program of the National Science 
Foundation and to require the National Science Founda-
tion to conduct research on dyslexia. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Research Excellence 
and Advancements for Dyslexia Act’’ or the ‘‘READ Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) As many as 1 out of 6, or 8,500,000, Amer-
ican school children may have dyslexia. 
(2) Since 1975, dyslexia has been included in 
the list of qualifying learning disabilities under the 
Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 
1975 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education 
Act. 
SEC. 3. RESEARCH IN DISABILITIES EDUCATION. 
(a) PROGRAM.—Nothing in this Act alters the Na-
tional Science Foundation’s Research in Disabilities Edu-
cation program for fundamental and implementation re-
search about learners (of all ages) with disabilities, includ-
ing dyslexia, in science, technology, engineering, and 
mathematics (STEM). The National Science Foundation 
shall continue to encourage efforts to understand and ad-
dress disability-based differences in STEM education and 
workforce participation, including differences for dyslexic 
learners. 
(b) LINE ITEM.—The Director of the National 
Science Foundation shall include the amount requested for 
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the Research in Disabilities Education program in the 
Foundation’s annual congressional budget justification. 
SEC. 4. DYSLEXIA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The National Science Foundation 
shall support multi-directorate, merit-reviewed, and com-
petitively awarded research on the science of dyslexia, in-
cluding research on the early identification of children and 
students with dyslexia, professional development for teach-
ers and administrators of students with dyslexia, curricula 
and educational tools needed for children with dyslexia, 
and implementation and scaling of successful models of 
dyslexia intervention. Research supported under this sub-
section shall be conducted with the goal of practical appli-
cation. 
(b) FUNDING.—The National Science Foundation 
shall devote at least $5 million annually to research de-
scribed in subsection (a), subject to the availability of ap-
propriations, to come from amounts made available for the 
Research and Related Activities account or the Education 
and Human Resources Directorate. No additional funds 
are authorized to be appropriated under this section. This 
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