| HI | HB214 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Labor and Technology Committee |
| HI | HB628 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB636 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB620 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB754 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for community schools and a program manager position. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB864 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Housing Committee |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
To Senate 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] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
To House Water & Land 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB865 | 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 House Education Committee |
| HI | HB909 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions and appropriates funds for the purchase of alternative vehicles and individuals to obtain CDL licensure. Allows Department schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1160 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1070 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Health Committee |
| HI | HB1071 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1072 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1073 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1067 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1068 | 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] | 2025-01-23
To House Labor & Public Employment Committee |
| HI | HB190 | Intro
25% | Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to school meals programs. Requires certain school cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents. Establishes school cafe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB289 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB335 | Intro
25% | Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB258 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement a supplemental sports program for high school students in West Oahu.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB473 | Intro
25% | Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2026, for automatically preregistering or registering public, charter, and private school-enrolled students who are at least 16 years old to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB485 | Intro
25% | Establishes a Department of Education statewide policy for cell phone use in all department schools to ensure clear and enforceable guidelines and foster an environment conducive to learning.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To House Education Committee |
