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HIHB1651Engross
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)
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2024-03-20
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1653Engross
50%
Pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement negotiated for Bargaining Unit (5), provides annual salary step increases for public school teachers and educational officers who have completed a year's satisfactory service and comply with specified req...
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2024-03-18
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB2242Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for full-time equivalent career foundations certificate program teachers for McKinley Community School for Adults. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-13
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB2082Engross
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)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1655Engross
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.
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2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1654Engross
50%
Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1657Engross
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)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1775Engross
50%
Beginning with the 2024-2025 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)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1969Engross
50%
Establishes the shade tree program in the Department of Education to support educational activities and encourage propagation of native shade trees for planting in department schools. Appropriates funds for the program and to establish arborist posit...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1650Engross
50%
Requires the board of education to invite the exclusive representative for bargaining unit (5) (teachers and other personnel of the department of education) to appoint a nonvoting public school teacher representative to the board and the exclusive re...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2759Engross
50%
Appropriates funds for health technician positions within the Department of Education for the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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2024-03-07
To Senate Education Committee
HIHB1631Engross
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...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2402Engross
50%
Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for its food service operations. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2043Engross
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...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1534Engross
50%
Establishes the Hawaii Registered Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1904Engross
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...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB1777Engross
50%
Authorizes dental hygienists who are under the general supervision of a licensed dentist to perform preventive dental sealant screenings and apply dental sealants on certain individuals in a school-based oral health program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2222Engross
50%
Requires the Department of Education to convene a staggered school start times task force to study and evaluate the issues and implications of instituting a staggered school start times program, including effects on school bus schedules. Requires a r...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2403Engross
50%
Makes an emergency appropriation to the Department of Education for charter schools. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2577Engross
50%
Authorizes the Department of Health to require the Department of Education to report coronavirus disease 2019 potential outbreaks or other public health emergencies and related information in a manner most appropriate to public health and safety, as ...
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2661Engross
50%
Enacts the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact to reduce barriers to teacher license portability and employment. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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2024-03-07
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HIHB2578Engross
50%
Exempts prekindergarten-only public charter schools from certain provisions affecting charter schools relating to funding and finance, the use of the weighted student formula, athletics, enrollment, computer science courses and content, and enrollmen...
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2024-03-07
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HISB2975Intro
25%
Establishes the qualified internship grant program within the Department of Education to provide grants to businesses and organizations that employ qualified interns participating in work-based learning through a qualified internship program. Appropr...
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2024-02-07
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HISB2061Intro
25%
Establishes a one-year school bus driver certification subsidy pilot program within the Department of Education. Requires a report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-02-07
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HISB2114Intro
25%
Prohibits the feeding of feral animals within a certain distance from Department of Education public school campuses. Establishes fines.
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2024-02-05
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HISB2252Intro
25%
Authorizes the Board of Education to consider qualified individuals with at least an associate's degree or high school diploma with comparable education and coursework, industry experience, and content expertise to teach career and technical educatio...
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2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2672Intro
25%
Authorizes the state librarian to decline to conduct a requested review of an item within the Hawaii State Public Library System collection if the item was previously reviewed by the system in good faith, the basis for the request is duplicative or s...
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2024-01-30
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3269Intro
25%
Requires that each Department of Education public school student earn 2 credits in Hawaiian language as a graduation requirement.
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2024-01-29
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HISB3241Intro
25%
Establishes a plant-based meals option grant program within the Department of Education. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Makes an appropriation.
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2024-01-29
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HISB3322Intro
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...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3368Intro
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.
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2024-01-29
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HISB3373Intro
25%
Beginning the 2024-2025 school year, requires the Department of Education to rename the James Campbell baseball field as the Loke Huddy Baseball Field.
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3366Intro
25%
Adds the Director of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Director of Labor and Industrial Relations; and the President of the University of Hawaii to the Board of Education of the Department of Education. Adds the Director of Business, Econo...
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2024-01-29
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HISB3232Intro
25%
Establishes a teacher loan program 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 teachers who will co...
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2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3346Intro
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.
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2024-01-29
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HISB3210Intro
25%
Requires Department of Education school bus contracts to include provisions that require contractors to prioritize the use of motor vehicles that do not require those drivers to hold a commercial driver's license.
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2024-01-29
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HISB3119Intro
25%
Establishes the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program. Makes appropriations.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3073Intro
25%
Changes the means of financing for a portion of funds appropriated for deposit into the school facilities special fund to expand pre-kindergarten student capacity within the State from general funds to general obligation bond funds. Extends the lapse...
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2024-01-26
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HISB3004Intro
25%
Appropriates funds to maintain seventy-five health technician positions within the Department of Education for the Hawaii Keiki: Healthy and Ready to Learn Program. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee
HISB3088Intro
25%
Permanently exempts an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service.
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2024-01-26
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HISB3086Intro
25%
Exempts career and technical education goods and services purchases by the Department of Education from the State Procurement Code. Repeals on 7/1/2027.
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2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2670Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to implement a process to allow students to use preferred names to strengthen inclusivity in public schools.
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2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee
HISB2883Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to ensure that inclusive curricula are available to all students at public schools. Makes it a discriminatory practice to refuse to approve, remove, or prohibit the use or...
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2024-01-24
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HISB2671Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to establish zero-emission vehicle goals as part of the sustainable schools initiative. Requires annual report to the Legislature.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2679Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to create and distribute to the parents and guardians of students a firearms access prevention and secure storage model notice.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2947Intro
25%
Requires the Department of Education to submit annual reports to the Legislature on prior attendance at early learning programs for students entering kindergarten. Repeals standardized assessment requirements for students entering kindergarten.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2839Intro
25%
Requires the department of education to develop and implement a Holocaust and genocide curricula. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2800Intro
25%
Beginning with the 2025-2026 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.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2905Intro
25%
Requires the DOE to submit an annual report to the legislature on the installation, repair, and maintenance of fire alarm systems in Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds.
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2024-01-24
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HISB2616Intro
25%
Authorizes student-athletes attending public and private high schools to earn compensation for the use of their name, image, or likeness, and to obtain related professional representation. Repeals on 1/1/30.
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2024-01-24
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