Bill Text: HI SB1391 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

Hawaii Senate Bill 1391

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating To Education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - The committee(s) on EDU has scheduled a public hearing on 01-31-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference. [SB1391 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2025-SB1391-Introduced.html

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	1391
THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The legislature finds that teachers understand their students' needs and tailor their classrooms to create an engaging and effective learning experience. Nationwide, teachers spend an average of five hundred dollars out-of-pocket on their classrooms each year. To alleviate the financial burden on teachers, the department of education is committed to providing funding for teacher-requested classroom supplies.

The purpose of this Act is to appropriate funds to the department of education for teacher-requested classroom supplies. The department of education intends to engage in public-private partnerships focused on leveraging existing financial resources from both sectors, to provide teachers and students with project-based resources.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $3,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2025-2026 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2026-2027 to carry out the purposes of this Act, including providing for teacher-requested classroom supplies.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this Act.

SECTION 3. This Act, upon its approval, shall take effect on July 1, 2025.

INTRODUCED BY:

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BY REQUEST

Report Title:

DOE; Education Supplies; Public-Private Partnerships; Appropriation

Description:

Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.

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