| HI | SB894 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-06
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SCR27 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Auditor To Conduct An Audit Of The Department Of Education's Capital Improvement Project Finances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SCR19 | Intro
25% | Requesting The Department Of Education To Make Available Recreational Facilities To The Public During Non-peak Hours And Non-school Days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB422 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-04
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 155). |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB532 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-04
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 165) in amended form (SD 2). |
| HI | SB659 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-04
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 182) in amended form (SD 2). |
| HI | SB789 | Engross
50% | 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 Repealed 1/1/2031 if DOE fails to meet statutory Local Farm to School Meal goal.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] | 2025-03-04
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 197) in amended form (SD 2). |
| HI | SB747 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-04
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 192) in amended form (SD 1). |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| 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] | 2025-03-04
To House Education Committee |
| HI | SB1388 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-04
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 319) in amended form (SD 2). |
| HI | SB1391 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2025-03-04
Received from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 320) in amended form (SD 2). |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| HI | SB868 | Intro
25% | Establishes a one-year School Bus Driver Certification Subsidy Pilot Program within the Department of Education for the 20252026 school year. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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] | 2025-01-31
To Senate 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| HI | SB613 | Intro
25% | Requires that each Department of Education public school student earn 2 credits in Hawaiian language for a high school diploma. Establishes a 2-year pilot program for Hawaiian language instruction at Noelani Elementary School and Nanakuli High and In...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB821 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for community schools and a program manager position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB791 | Intro
25% | Prohibits certain food dye additives from being served in school meals of the Department of Education and charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB790 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish a food waste composting pilot project at Nanakuli High and Intermediate School. Appropriates moneys.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB736 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a recognition program to incentivize schools to submit to the Department a plan for the school to reach the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food served in the school to consist ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
