| HI | HB133 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB422 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services of the United States or whose high school ed...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB440 | Engross
50% | Establishes the Future Career and Technical Education Teacher Scholarship Program to be administered by the Department of Education to facilitate the recruitment and retention of career and technical education teachers in Hawaii public schools. Appro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | SB529 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for its Hoakea Program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB659 | Intro
25% | Exempts from the electronic procurement system the Department of Education's purchase of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added processed, agricultural, or food products not exceeding $250,000, subject to certain requirements. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB422 | Engross
50% | Repeals school impact fees. Abolishes and transfers unencumbered balances of the school impact fee subaccounts and certain fair share contribution accounts to School Facilities Special Fund. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Perruso voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. |
| HI | SB747 | Intro
25% | Establishes an Audit Office within the Board of Education to audit operations and expenditures of the Department of Education. Exempts positions within the Audit Office from civil service law. Requires annual reports to the Governor and Director of F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
One Day Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB627 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for positions to implement and maintain school safety measures. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | HB628 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award high school diplomas to persons who did not receive a diploma as a result of compulsory or voluntary induction into the armed services and persons whose high school education was ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1102), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB636 | Intro
25% | Establishes a school capital improvement project modernization initiative in the School Facilities Authority to create a planning database for school facilities. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB620 | Intro
25% | Establishes state policy to promote braille literacy for eligible blind students. Requires the individualized education programs and section 504 plans of eligible blind students to include the assessment and evaluation of eligible blind students' rea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1101), recommending passage on Third Reading. |
| HI | HB754 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for community schools and a program manager position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB864 | Intro
25% | Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs. Requires an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Forty-eight (48) hours notice Tuesday, 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1300 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for meal subsidies for students whose families are classified as asset limited, income constrained, employed (ALICE) households. Requires the Department of Education to adopt administrative rules. Eff...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB961 | Engross
50% | Establishes and appropriates funds for a two-year librarian pilot program to serve one school complex on Oahu and one school complex on an island other than Oahu. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1393 | Engross
50% | Requires the School Facilities Authority to consult with the Department of Education and other impacted departments or agencies before the conveyance of ownership rights or lease of lands to the School Facilities Authority. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | HB1069 | Engross
50% | Adds two voting members that represent the Department of Education and Board of Education to the School Facilities Authority Board. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB1390 | Engross
50% | Changes the due date of the Department of Education's annual computer science legislative report from June 30 to October 31. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Pass First Reading |
| HI | HB1234 | Engross
50% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Education to establish a standards-based Water Safety Education Pilot Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
Passed First Reading. |
| HI | SB894 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for regional kitchen expansion to fulfill the local farm-to-school meal goal requiring thirty per cent of the food served in public schools to consist of locally sourced products. Effective 7/1/2050. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB532 | Intro
25% | Allows school staff and agents trained by a health care professional to volunteer to administer medication to students at Department of Education public schools under certain conditions. Clarifies who may prescribe medication to be administered to st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB789 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to charge not less than one-quarter of the cost of preparing a school meal for each school meal. Effective 7/1/2050. Repealed 1/1/2031 if DOE fails to meet statutory Local Farm to School Meal goal. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1388 | Intro
25% | Adds 2 ex officio members that represent the Department of Education and the Board of Education to the School Facilities Authority Board. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | SB1391 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies; provided that the private sector contributes matching funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
48 Hrs. Notice 03-04-25. |
| HI | HB214 | Intro
25% | Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 15 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Alcos, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Ward. |
| HI | HR16 | Intro
25% | Urging The Department Of Education And Honolulu Police Department To Establish Junior Police Officer Programs Through School-police Partnerships In Schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Offered |
| HI | HCR16 | Intro
25% | Urging The Department Of Education And Honolulu Police Department To Establish Junior Police Officer Programs Through School-police Partnerships In Schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
Offered |
| HI | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as hard-to-staff. Requires reports to the Legislature. Amends the purpose and uses of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB616 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education and public charter schools to take certain steps to report incidents of harassment and implement procedures for handling harassment of educational workers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB288 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions. Allows the Department of Education to institute a staggered school hours program in public schools. Appropriates funds for the pur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB757 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB841 | Intro
25% | Amends the break in service requirement for retirants to six months before they can be rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in hard-to-fill positions. Prohibits rehired retirants from receiving additional employment bene...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1075 | Intro
25% | Reduces the amount the Department of Education is authorized to charge for school meals to all students enrolled in department schools to no more than one-quarter of the cost of preparing the meals. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1210 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to provide and disseminate its procedures for dealing with bullying. Requires principals, teachers, and staff to disseminate the Department's bullying procedures to students. Defines bullying procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB249 | Intro
25% | Clarifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB420 | Intro
25% | Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in Department of Education-sponsored work-based learning programs. Effective 7/...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB421 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to administer a general dyslexia screening to all students in kindergarten through grade three. Requires the Department of Education to continue to administer the general English language arts universal screening ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB530 | Intro
25% | Establishes Braille literacy as a policy of the State. Requires literacy assessments for eligible low vision and blind students to include Braille instruction and the use of Braille. Authorizes the Department of Education to adopt administrative rule...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | HB1314 | Intro
25% | Requires that all schools develop plans to execute mental health check-ins with their students grades six through twelve. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB333 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high school classes to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB621 | Intro
25% | Requires and appropriates funds to pay salary differentials to English language educators as an incentive to attract and retain these educators. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | SB527 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the establishment of five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions within the Civil Rights Compliance Branch of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-11
To Senate Ways and Means Committee |
| HI | SB187 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB799 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to select materials for inclusion, circulation, and exclusion in school library collections according to certain criteria. Requires the Department of Education to uphold the freedom to read. Prohibits the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1389 | Intro
25% | Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists to allow those professionals working for or contracted by the Department of Education to diagnose medical conditions that can be treated with the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
The recommendation was not adopted. |
| HI | HB1202 | Intro
25% | Recognizes prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for teachers entering or reentering into the service of the Department of Education. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB1200 | Intro
25% | Codifies the board of education's policy for class sizes to promote quality education and positive student-teacher interactions. Informs parents if changes to class sizes are needed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1344 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education's existing Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) working group to create a state plan to make completion of the FAFSA or an opt-out waiver a statewide graduation requirement by the 2027-2028 school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB449 | Intro
25% | Establishes a school capital improvement project modernization initiative in the School Facilities Authority to create a planning database for school facilities. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB684 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt administrative rules to ban the usage of cell phones at Department of Education schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
