(a) As of the effective date of this section, an applicant for a preliminary multiple subject teaching credential or a preliminary education specialist instruction credential will hold a passing reading instruction competence assessment score prospectively if, within the 10 calendar years following the date the score was earned, the applicant has achieved a reading instruction competence assessment examination score as follows:
(1) A score of 198 earned on the 2009 single administration reading instruction competence assessment examination before July 26, 2021.
(2) A score of 198 earned on each subtest of the three-subtest version of the reading instruction competence assessment on or after July 26, 2021.
(b) This section supersedes subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 80071 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations.