| HI | HB862 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
[Hearing: Feb 24 @ 10:00 am]
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1343 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
The committee on JHA recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Tarnas, Poepoe, Belatti, Hashem, Kahaloa, Perruso, Takayama, Garcia, Shimizu; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran, Todd. |
| HI | HB88 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a three-year student athlete travel pilot program to provide funding for intra-county travel expenses for student athletes of counties with a population of less than 500,000. Appropriat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB424 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Reduces the amount the Department of Education is authorized to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB429 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to hire teachers and teacher assistants and for equipment and services for public preschools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB629 | Intro
25% | Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists employed by or contracted with the Department of Education to diagnose students with a medical condition in an educational setting and treat the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB624 | Intro
25% | Creates a School Psychologists Working Group to recommend actionable steps or propose legislation for an immediate pathway to licensure for school psychologists that can be acted upon in 2026. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB683 | Intro
25% | Establishes and appropriates funds for student transportation coordinators positions within the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services across the State. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB637 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings and evidence-based interventions, offer professional development on structured literacy and evidenced-based interventions, and support pre-teacher programs in t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB763 | Intro
25% | Establishes the civic education trust fund to support programs benefiting civic education of public school students. Appropriates funds for the expansion of civic education in the public schools and for full-time equivalent permanent civic education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB962 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a two-year school librarian pilot program to provide funding for qualifying schools to hire librarians. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB1293 | Intro
25% | Exempts Department of Education purchases of local edible produce and packaged food products less than a certain amount from the electronic procurement system requirement. Requires at least three written quotes for Department of Education purchases o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. |
| HI | HB622 | Intro
25% | Changes the due date of the Department of Education's computer science legislative report from June 30 to twenty days prior to the start of each legislative regular session. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1; placed on the calendar for Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Amato, Cochran, Grandinetti, Perruso, Ward excused (5). |
| HI | HB1499 | Intro
25% | Expands the Department of Education's authority to allow more trained staff to volunteer to assist students with the administration of medication. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
The committee on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Matayoshi, Chun, Ilagan, Ichiyama, Iwamoto, Kong, Marten, Tam, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Lowen. |
| HI | HB245 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Department of Health and State Public Charter School Commission, to conduct a study on the current practices of managing heat exposure in state public and charter schools to protect stud...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB903 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a school to maintain a stock supply of bronchodilators to be administered under certain conditions. Authorizes certain employees of a school and department personnel to administer certain medication in emergency situations, under certain c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1500 | Intro
25% | Repeals the authority of the Department of Education to set the price for school meals, except to provide a lower rate or free meals through rules. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB730 | Intro
25% | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions within the Civil Rights Compliance Branch of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB902 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to conduct a study on methods to support department schools that may be impacted by electric utilities' planned public safety power shutoff program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB328 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual public schools to form their own farm to school meal programs through partnerships to meet the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food serv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB863 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB626 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for the Department's Hokea Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB625 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1249 | Intro
25% | Requires each public school to develop a disaster and attack preparedness plan by 1/1/2026 that includes shelter-in-place drills. Requires each school to maintain emergency goods sufficient for at least 48 hours in its facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1460 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires that each Department of Education public school student earn 2 credits in Hawaiian language as a graduation requirement. Establishes a 2-year pilot program for Hawaiian language instruction at a cent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1491 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a climate education, environmental sustainability, and indigenous knowledge into the K-12 curriculum and climate education and environmental sustainability teacher training and professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB936 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide financial literacy curricula plan for public high schools. Requires all public high schools to offer instruction in financial literacy...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB191 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish rules for the procurement of goods and services related to the administration of food programs at public schools that incorporate a geographic preference for unprocessed locally grown and locally rais...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB310 | Intro
25% | Requires all public schools, including public charter schools, to maintain a stock supply of opioid antagonists. Requires the Department of Education and State Public Charter School Commission to offer training to school employees on the administrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB362 | Intro
25% | Requires the conveyance of a certain parcel of land from the Department of Education to the County of Kauai. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Water & Land Committee |
| HI | HB623 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt a policy that bans the use of phones and related devices by students during school hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
