| HI | SB440 | Intro
25% | 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 teachers in Hawaii public schools. Appropriates fu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB533 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to evaluate school needs to mitigate the impact of the planned public safety power shutoff program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB531 | Intro
25% | Establishes provisions for the storage and maintenance of a stock supply of bronchodilators at schools. Requires the Department of Education to establish a protocol for the storage, usage, and administration of bronchodilators. Establishes provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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 Legislature. Establishes s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | HB841 | Intro
25% | Requires retirants rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in difficult-to-fill positions to be paid at least the minimum salary for their experience and qualifications. Prohibits rehired retirants from receiving additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | SB1300 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for meal subsidies for students whose families is classified as asset limited, income constrained, employed (ALICE) households.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1074 | Intro
25% | Requires the School Facilities Authority to consult with the Department of Education and other impacted departments or agencies prior to the conveyance of ownership rights or lease of lands to the School Facilities Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none. |
| HI | SB1391 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 31 @ 3:00 pm]
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1188 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as rural and underserved. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1314 | Intro
25% | Requires that all schools develop plans to execute mental health check-ins with their students grades six through twelve.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-28
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 2:00 pm]
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB1192 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the denial of a school meal to a student based on the student's ability to pay. Requires the Department of Education and department schools to certify that all students eligible for certain programs receive free or reduced-price meals. Proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1181 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement a plan for a Hawaiian language immersion school in Kapolei that shall be ready to educate students in grades kindergarten through 12 by the 2028-2029 school year. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Hawaiian Affairs Committee |
| 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
[Hearing: Jan 30 @ 9:00 am]
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | SB1223 | Intro
25% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Education to establish a standards-based Water Safety Education Pilot Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1259 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Land Dedication for Agricultural Education program within the Department of Education. Requires the Department of Education to consult with the Department of Taxation to establish tax incentives for land developers who dedicate land f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1274 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as rural and underserved. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1479 | Intro
25% | Amends sections 286-102 and 286-181, HRS, to allow exemptions to include use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans, which may not meet school bus regulations for school bus services, but which shall otherwise meet vehicle requirements and qualificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1394 | Intro
25% | Amends the law to reduce the amount the Department of Education is required to charge for school meals to all students enrolled in department schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1393 | Intro
25% | Requires the School Facilities Authority to consult with the Department of Education and other impacted departments or agencies prior to the conveyance of ownership rights or lease of lands to the School Facilities Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1386 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsorily or voluntarily induction into the armed services of the United Sta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1390 | 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 the legislative regular session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1387 | 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 work-based learning programs established and regulated by the Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1388 | Intro
25% | Adds two voting members that represent the Department of Education or the Board of Education to the School Facilities Authority Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1392 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings, provide evidence-based interventions, and offer professional development on dyslexia and structured literacy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1178 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to establish a cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training program for public school students in grades six through twelve as part of exist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1195 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1202 | Intro
25% | Promotes teacher retention by recognizing prior teaching experience at an equal salary rating for entering or reentering teachers into the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education 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] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1224 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education 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] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1234 | Intro
25% | Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Education to establish a standards-based Water Safety Education Pilot Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1203 | Intro
25% | Appropriate moneys to the Department of Education to establish a Hawaiian language immersion school, open to students in grades kindergarten through 12, that is located in the Leeward area of the island of Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1242 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement a plan for a Hawaiian language immersion school in Kapolei that shall be ready to educate students in grades kindergarten through 12 by the 2028-2029 school year. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1305 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department Education, in coordination with the Department of Health, to develop a fireworks education and marketing program for implementation in public schools, including charter schools, and distribution to private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1303 | Intro
25% | Requires each public school to implement a policy to prohibit students from using cellular phones and other wireless communication devices during school hours, subject to exceptions for education, health, and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB1546 | Intro
25% | Requires retirants rehired as teachers or administrators in teacher shortage areas or in difficult-to-fill positions to be paid at least the minimum salary for their experience and qualifications. Prohibits rehired retirants from receiving additional...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1544 | Intro
25% | Requires each public school to implement a policy to prohibit students from using cellular phones and other wireless communication devices during school hours, subject to exceptions for education, health, and emergencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate 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] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1399 | Intro
25% | Requires each Department of Education classroom to be equipped with an opioid antagonist. Requires the Department of Education to train employees on opioid-related drug overdose prevention, recognition, and response and opioid antagonist administrati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1436 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Civics Collaborative within the Department of Accounting and General Services to promote civics engagement and perpetuate the Aloha Spirit. Requires the Department of Education, University of Hawaii Matsunaga Institute for Peac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To House Culture & Arts Committee |
| HI | SB1615 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department Education, in coordination with the Department of Health, to develop a fireworks education and marketing program for implementation in public schools, including charter schools, and distribution to private schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1631 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Civics Collaborative within the Department of Accounting and General Services to promote civics engagement and perpetuate the Aloha Spirit. Requires the Department of Education, University of Hawaii Matsunaga Institute for Peac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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] | 2025-01-23
To Senate 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 $100,000, subject to certain requirements. Requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB610 | Intro
25% | Establishes the rounding up for teachers' salaries special fund, to be administered by the Department of Education. Requires electric utilities and county boards of water supply to provide an option for customers to voluntarily round up their bill to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB605 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in kindergarten through grade twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in financ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB646 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at public elementary schools and state prekindergarten programs. Requires report to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB628 | Intro
25% | Increases the general excise tax by 1%. Establishes the teacher salary special fund within the Department of Education. Requires that increased general excise tax revenues be deposited into the teacher salary special fund and the school facilities sp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
