| 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] | 2025-01-23
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| 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
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| HI | SB757 | Intro
25% | Requires reasonable terms in license agreements for digital literary materials between libraries and publishers. Defines prohibited terms for license agreements between libraries and publishers. Declares offer of a license agreement with a prohibited...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB574 | Intro
25% | Allows children having a parent or guardian who is a public school teacher to have priority for enrollment in the Executive Office on Early Learning public prekindergarten program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB753 | Intro
25% | Changes the qualifications and appointment process for members of the School Facilities Authority Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| 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
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| 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
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| HI | SB772 | Intro
25% | Authorizes school complexes to incorporate media literacy in their standards-based curriculum, including content that prevents negative impacts of misinformation, disinformation, digital discrimination, and online hate speech.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| 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
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| HI | SB789 | Intro
25% | Repeals requirement that Department of Education set school cafeteria meal price at no less than half the cost of meal preparation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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 | 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
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| 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
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| HI | SB580 | Intro
25% | Clarifies that the School Facilities Authority is responsible for certain development, planning, and construction projects for prekindergarten, preschool, and child care facilities, as well as workforce housing. Allows the School Facilities Authority...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| HI | SB748 | Intro
25% | Expands the types of water heater systems that may satisfy the relevant requirement for the issuance of a building permit for new single-family dwellings to include ENERGY STAR certified heat pump water heaters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| 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] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB527 | Intro
25% | Establishes, and appropriates funds for, five full-time equivalent (5.0 FTE) positions within the Civil Rights Compliance Branch of the Department of Education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB545 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the usage of synthetic substances in school meals at Department of Education and public charter schools. Defines "synthetic substances".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB532 | Intro
25% | Allows school staff and agents trained by a licensed clinician 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 students...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB549 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-21
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| 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] | 2025-01-21
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| 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] | 2025-01-21
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| 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] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB423 | Intro
25% | Adds the Director of the Hawaii Head Start State Collaboration Office, or their designee, as an ex officio, non-voting member to the Early Learning Board. Requires the Early Learning Board to invite the President of the Head Start Association of Hawa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB408 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to increase per-pupil expenditures to $18,000 per student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate 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] | 2025-01-21
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| 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] | 2025-01-21
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| 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] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB388 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program revolving fund to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows a loan to be forgiven for teachers who become a licensed teacher in Hawaii or for teach...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB529 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for its Hoakea Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB453 | 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] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB494 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Budget and Finance, in collaboration with the Auditor, to conduct a financial audit of each charter school operating in the State. Requires a report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
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| HI | SB497 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to require the teaching of financial literacy to be included in the existing personal transition plan requirement for each student.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB409 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to design and construct photovoltaic panel coverings over playgrounds at all Department of Education schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Senate Education 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB248 | 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] | 2025-01-17
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| HI | SB229 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB178 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB221 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 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] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB249 | Intro
25% | Modifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB235 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to authorize and facilitate complex areas or individual department schools to form their own farm to school meal programs through partnerships to meet the local farm to school meal goal of thirty per cent of food ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| HI | SB168 | Intro
25% | Places oversight of the School Impact Fee Program under the School Facilities Authority Board. Allows the School Facilities Authority Board to dissolve a school impact district without a public hearing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB196 | Intro
25% | Requires each public or public charter school to have staff trained in the administration of, and authorized to administer, epinephrine. Requires signs to be displayed in school buildings stating the symptoms of anaphylaxis and the proper method for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB201 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the Department of Education from mandating that any student attend a school outside the student's service area. Establishes a 5 year phaseout period. Requires the DOE to submit annual progress reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB43 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-16
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