Department Of Education
Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Bus Services. [SB-2515]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Children and Youth ]
Authorizes the use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans for school bus services if certain conditions are met.
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Relating To Education. [HB-2061]
[Education ]
[Sports ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 the student resides. Specifies that if the department school in the student's service area offers the student's desired athletic program, the student must participate in that athletic program and may not participate in an athletic program at a different department school in the same complex area.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-2092]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Human Rights ]
Requires the department of education to develop and implement a Holocaust and genocide curricula. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-2043]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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 final finding has been issued that the individual has inflicted harm on a student. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Meals. [HB-2083]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 locally sourced products by 2030. Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a plant-based meal pilot program at Mililani high school no later than the 2025-2026 school year. Effective 7/1/3000. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1904]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Military ]
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. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-2420]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
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 their health education curriculum required for graduation for students in grades 9-12. Specifies instruction requirements. Waives liability for instruction under certain circumstances.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Meals. [SB-2429]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 of locally sourced products by 2030. Requires public high schools under the Department of Education to provide plantbased meals as an option under the school meals program.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-2475]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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 final finding has been issued that the individual has inflicted harm on a student. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Bus Services. [HB-1767]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
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)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Safety. [HB-1837]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Requires the Department of Education to create emergency access plans for each Department school. Requires each Department school to have a comprehensive school evacuation communication plan for use during emergencies. Requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the Department of Transportation to assess all Department school campuses to determine if there are sufficient emergency evacuation routes for each campus and report to the Legislature. Declares that the general fund expenditure ceiling is exceeded. Appropriates funds. Effective
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Meals. [SB-2365]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 of locally sourced products by 2030. Requires public high schools under the Department of Education to provide plantbased meals as an option under the school meals program.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Bus Services. [SB-2303]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishes comprehensive standards for the department of education related to school bus services to ensure reasonable accommodation, equitable access, timely communication, and accountability.
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Housing. [SB-2283]
[Housing ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
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 Authority to include in its annual report to the Governor, Board of Education, and Legislature the actions the Authority will take within the next year, three years, and five years toward increasing educator workforce housing. Requires the Department of Education to collaborate with the Department of Land
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To The Safety Of Educational Workers. [HB-1651]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
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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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Bus Services. [HB-1656]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
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)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1655]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
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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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To School Psychology. [HB-1648]
[Education ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
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)
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1657]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Public Health ]
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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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1649]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishes a nationally certified school psychologist incentive program. Appropriates funds for the incentive program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)