| HI | HB2430 | Enroll
75% | Establishes the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program. Appropriates funds. (CD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-05-03
Received notice of passage on Final Reading in House (Hse. Com. No. 830). |
| HI | HB2083 | Engross
50% | Requires 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 of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-26
Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday 04-26-24 5:30PM in conference room 325. |
| HI | HB2400 | Enroll
75% | Requires a teacher to forfeit their teaching license if the teacher resigns or retires during the pendency of any investigation into allegations of sexual assault, sexual harassment, or other physical abuse of a student. Requires the forfeiture of th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 782). |
| HI | HB69 | Engross
50% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Education's Resources for Enrichment, Athletics/Academics, Culture, and Health program. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
Received notice of discharge of all conferees (Hse. Com. No. 457). |
| HI | HB1651 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1631 | Engross
50% | Requires the School Facilities Authority to work with the Department of Education to prioritize projects for the construction of educator workforce housing that will house teachers and other staff of the Department. Requires the School Facilities Aut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1657 | Engross
50% | Requires all public schools to implement universal screenings for students in kindergarten through third grade to identify and support students who are at risk of dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1767 | Engross
50% | Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Transportation and Culture and the Arts Committee |
| HI | HB1904 | Engross
50% | Provides a process for school placement for a child whose parent or guardian has transferred or is pending transfer from another state to a military installation in Hawaii while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order. Effectiv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2082 | Engross
50% | Establishes comprehensive standards for the department of education related to school bus services to ensure equitable access, timely communication, and accountability. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2043 | Engross
50% | Establishes a harm to students registry for all early learning programs or schools and K-12 educational institutions within the State that contains information on school employees, contractors, or volunteers for whom, as result of an investigation, a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1655 | Engross
50% | Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2027-2028 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-12 English language arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB2397 | Intro
25% | Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases up to $500,000 per purchase by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Repeals on 7/1/2027. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1656 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to assist individuals in obtaining a commercial driver's license for the purpose of becoming school bus drivers. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB1648 | 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 2025. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Consumer Protection & Commerce Committee |
| HI | HB1540 | Intro
25% | Requires eligible schools to participate in the federal Community Eligibility Provision, which provides federal funds to help schools offer free meals to all students. Appropriates moneys for any difference between federal funds amounts and costs of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2256 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to students enrolled in a public school who meet certain requirements. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1627 | Intro
25% | Requires the conveyance of a certain parcel of land from the department of education to the county of Kauai. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2572 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-staff positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become, or have become, a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2061 | Intro
25% | Allows a public charter school student who wishes to participate in a sport for which there is no athletic program at the student's charter school the ability to participate in a comparable program at any department school in the complex area where t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1649 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB2557 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to develop and, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, implement a financial literacy curriculum for grades kindergarten through twelfth grade.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2605 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish a teacher loan forgiveness program to assist in the payment of loans for teachers who commit to teaching in the Hawaii public school system. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2676 | Intro
25% | Updates and expands the statutory prohibition on the use of tobacco at public schools to include prohibiting the possession and use of electronic smoking devices. Requires the Department of Education to be responsible for educating students, employee...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB2092 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to develop and implement a Holocaust and genocide curricula. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1047 | Engross
50% | Changes the department of education's quarterly report on autism spectrum disorder to a semiannual report. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB550 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to offer training for teachers, educational officers, and school-based behavioral health specialists on sex trafficking prevention and response.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB843 | Engross
50% | Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Defines "remote school". Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB850 | Engross
50% | Within the department of education formally establishes the trauma-informed education pilot program. Appropriates funds for one twelve-month complex area trauma-informed resource teacher permanent position and one district educational specialist II p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB562 | Engross
50% | Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Public Safety, Intergovernmental and Military Affairs Committee |
| HI | HB1117 | Intro
25% | Authorizes HHFDC to assist DOE in developing housing projects for teachers and other school employees and contract or sponsor an experimental or demonstration housing project with any state department or agency. Appropriates funds for deposit into th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB55 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to establish grant programs to provide funds for the planning and implementation of community schools. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB896 | Engross
50% | Requires the Department of Education to assess its facilities and provide the legislature with a list of priority facilities in each county at which the installation of renewable energy systems on school facilities would provide the most benefit, pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB842 | Intro
25% | Requires the board of education to adopt and the department of education to administer a kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni schools. Delays the administration of the kindergarten entry assessment in Olelo Hawaii for Kaiapuni s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB549 | Intro
25% | Requires the school facilities authority to, to the greatest extent possible, renovate, improve, and expand existing public school facilities and classrooms to increase pre-kindergarten student capacity, including while expending funds appropriated f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB246 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to employ one full-time equivalent counselor, vice principal, and media specialist at each department school. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1048 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii educational expenditure trust fund as a separate fund of the department of education for improving the education of, and supporting the programs benefiting, the students of the Hawaii public school system. Effective 6/30/3000. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB830 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to meet with Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind stakeholders and members of the Hawaii deaf community regarding the development of a plan to transition the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind to a conversion ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB962 | Intro
25% | Exempts Hawaiian language immersion program students from kindergarten assessment requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB828 | Engross
50% | Requires the department of education to establish a student bus fare rate system to include free bus passes for students whose household qualifies the student for free or reduced price lunch under the free and reduced price lunch program. Appropriate...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB54 | Engross
50% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1044 | Intro
25% | Adjusts the Department of Education's small purchase threshold to require no less than three quotes for purchases of goods, services, and construction between $5,000 to less than $15,000, and to require no less than three written quotes for purchases...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Labor & Government Operations Committee |
| HI | HB741 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the department of education for the expansion of civic education in the public schools. Establishes two full-time equivalent permanent civic education resource teacher positions. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Finance Committee |
| HI | HB399 | Intro
25% | Allows employers to obtain a tax credit for offering positions to qualified interns in work-based learning programs that have been approved by the department of education or University of Hawaii.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Economic Development Committee |
| HI | HB936 | Engross
50% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the department of education to include financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student. Appropriates funds for the establishment of a position dedicated to financial l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1462 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to develop and implement a School Meal Subsidy Program to provide school lunch subsidies to children whose families do not otherwise qualify for free lunch under the federal Free and Reduced Price Lunch Program, s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB1307 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To House Education Committee |
| HI | HB464 | Engross
50% | Establishes a five-year magnet school pilot program at Waiahole and Kaaawa elementary schools. Establishes eight full-time equivalent (8.0 FTE) positions. Appropriates funds. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB250 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | HB1043 | Engross
50% | Repeals the department of education's weekly report on schools that have reported positive COVID-19 cases. Effective 6/30/3000. (HD1)
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
