| HI | SB2001 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of behavioral health, including mental health wellness, in grades kindergarten through twelve.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
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| HI | SB2019 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to permit all public high school students with a valid school identification card to attend school athletic events on their home campus free of charge. Requires all public high schools to offer physical ticket sal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
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| HI | SB2016 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high schools 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] | 2024-01-17
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| HI | SB2010 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires each public school and public charter school in the State to employ, or retain under contract, at least one mental health professional for every two hundred fifty students enrolled, subject to certai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
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| HI | SB737 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education, in collaboration with the University of Hawaii, to develop a Hawaiian Language Medium Education Kindergarten Entry Assessment to be administered by the Department of Education, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB274 | 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] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1045 | Intro
25% | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB378 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to establish an electric school bus pilot program to provide certain complex areas with ownership and control of electric school buses. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB850 | 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
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| HI | SB1347 | Intro
25% | Adds new tax credit for teacher's expenses. Adds an inflation index for the income tax brackets, personal exemption amount and standard deduction amounts. Increases the amounts for the income tax brackets, personal exemption amount and standard deduc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB750 | 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, one of which shall be grant funded.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB280 | Intro
25% | Allows the Department of Education to create temporary positions under certain conditions. Amends the requirement that the Department of Education report the creation of temporary positions to the Department of Budget and Finance by requiring that th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB355 | 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
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| HI | SB1137 | Intro
25% | Establishes a teacher loan program to encourage individuals to become teachers in hard-to-fill positions of Department of Education schools. Allows the loan to be forgiven after 5 years of teaching in a hard-to-fill position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1345 | Intro
25% | Changes the Department of Education's quarterly report on autism spectrum disorder to an annual report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB665 | 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] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1341 | Intro
25% | Repeals the Department of Education's weekly report on schools that have reported positive COVID-19 cases.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1429 | Intro
25% | Creates the requirement of school sports to designate sexspecific teams for the purpose of gender equality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1222 | 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
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| HI | SB301 | Intro
25% | Amends Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, to authorize the School Facilities Authority to provide affordable housing to Department of Education teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB108 | Intro
25% | Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for use by the Department of Education in preparation of instructional materials for eligible students. Defines "eligible student" in accordance with the Individuals with Disabilities...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1342 | 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
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| HI | SB970 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to establish zero-emission vehicle goals and plant-based food goals as part of the sustainable schools initiative. Requires annual report to the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1443 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the department of education to stock bronchodilators for emergency use during respiratory distress and authorize department employees to volunteer to administer bronchodilators.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB716 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1194 | Intro
25% | Establishes a financial literacy pilot project within the elementary, intermediate, and high schools in the Castle-Kahuku complex area during the 2024-2025 and 2025-2026 school years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB305 | Intro
25% | Establishes a career and technical education working group to strengthen career and technical education in the State's public schools. Makes an appropriation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB356 | 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
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| HI | SB827 | Intro
25% | Exempts Hawaiian language immersion program students from kindergarten assessment requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB414 | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB153 | Intro
25% | Authorizes supplemental categorical funding for remote schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB607 | Intro
25% | Adopts the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard for the purposes of providing instructional materials to eligible students in a timely manner and requires the Department of Education to coordinate with the National Instructional Ma...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB530 | Intro
25% | Relating To Charter Schools. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB240 | Intro
25% | Establishes the shade and fruit tree program beginning on 1/1/2024 in the department of education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees and fruit trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB133 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the - school year, requires public high schools to start at 9:00 a.m. and public elementary and middle schools to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1124 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to increase per-pupil expenditures to $18,000 per student to reflect cost of living adjustments.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB307 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the School Facilities Authority of the Department of Education to disregard any ordinance or rule related to the use, zoning, planning, or development of land to which the authority holds title or for any construction on land to which the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB1125 | 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] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB532 | Intro
25% | Relating To Libraries. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB147 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to administer annual mental health or behavioral health screenings to all students, faculty, and staff members at public schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB675 | Intro
25% | Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB700 | Intro
25% | Provides an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education to address the anticipated budget shortfall in utilities and school food services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB605 | 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
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| HI | SB250 | 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 Department of Education to submit annual progress reports.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB275 | 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] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1428 | Intro
25% | Bans instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity in public schools. Establishes new parental rights regarding health services and records. Establishes the parental right to sue and receive damages if schools fail to adhere to new pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB615 | 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] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1175 | Intro
25% | Requires the department of education to develop and implement safety training for all cafeteria student helpers and ensure the student helpers receive the training prior to them volunteering.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB995 | 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] | 2023-12-11
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| HI | SB1251 | Intro
25% | Beginning July 1, 2023, requires substitute teachers who work ninety days or more to be compensated equivalent to the daily rate for an entry-level teacher salary commensurate with their placement in Class I, II, or III.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2023-12-11
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