| HI | SB2975 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| HI | SB2061 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2114 | Intro
25% | Prohibits the feeding of feral animals within a certain distance from Department of Education public school campuses. Establishes fines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2252 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2672 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3269 | Intro
25% | Requires that each Department of Education public school student earn 2 credits in Hawaiian language as a graduation requirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3241 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3322 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3368 | 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] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3373 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3366 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3232 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3346 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| HI | SB3210 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3119 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children Program. Makes appropriations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3073 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| HI | SB3004 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3088 | Intro
25% | Permanently exempts an additional administrative assistant position in the Hawaii State Public Library System from civil service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB3086 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2670 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to implement a process to allow students to use preferred names to strengthen inclusivity in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2883 | Intro
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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2671 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2679 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| HI | SB2947 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2839 | 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 Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2800 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2905 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2616 | Intro
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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2544 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education Committee on Weights to consider the impact of its weighted student formula recommendations on small and remote schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2509 | Intro
25% | Requires the DOE to work with the BOE to create a public digital platform by the 2025-2026 school year that shows how schools are adopting high-quality instructional materials for K-6 English language arts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2510 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2420 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires all public, private, and charter schools in the State to include thirty minutes of instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and training in the proper performance of the Heimlich maneuver in thei...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2429 | 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] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2365 | 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] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2407 | Intro
25% | Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in grades nine through twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete one course in financial literacy b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2327 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2328 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds for the Department of Education to establish surfing competitions at a minimum of eight Oahu Interscholastic Association member schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2258 | Intro
25% | Relating To Education. Short form bill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2326 | Intro
25% | Increases the bonus for teachers who achieve and maintain a current national board certification from $5,000 to $15,000. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2312 | Intro
25% | Requires the Department of Education to assign school security personnel at all schools and facilities where students are present and determine the appropriate number of security personnel for each school. Requires the Department of Education to esta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2283 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2330 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to strengthen student transportation services for Hawaii's public school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2303 | Intro
25% | Establishes comprehensive standards for the department of education related to school bus services to ensure reasonable accommodation, equitable access, timely communication, and accountability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2353 | Intro
25% | Requires the Board of Education to adopt rules for facility maintenance. Requires that the condition of Department of Education facilities be periodically evaluated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2099 | Intro
25% | Prohibits loitering at schools and public property within 200 feet of a school. Prohibits obstructing a building, walkway, public passage, road, highway, sidewalk, or structure of a school or a public property within 200 feet of a school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2098 | Intro
25% | Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to contract with a qualified nonprofit organization to establish an aquatic safety education program for elementary school students and to establish one full-time equivalent position (1.0 FTE) to admi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2177 | Intro
25% | Lengthens the contracts for charter schools from five years to ten years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2054 | Intro
25% | Establishes the Hawaii Teacher Apprenticeship Program, to be administered by the Hawaii Teacher Standards Board, to support, recruit, develop, and retain teachers for Hawaii's public schools. Appropriates funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2221 | Intro
25% | Appropriates moneys to the City and County of Honolulu Department of Land Management and Department of Design and Construction for compliance with Act 210, Session Laws of Hawaii 2018. Declares that the appropriations exceed the state general fund ex...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| HI | SB2056 | Intro
25% | Proposes amendments to the Hawaii State Constitution to increase funding for public education for the children and adults of Hawaii by authorizing the Legislature to establish, as provided by law, a surcharge on residential investment property valued...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
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