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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1224]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
Requires the department of education to prohibit cell phone use during the instructional day, prohibit student access to social media through the school's internet, and implement a social media education campaign. Creates exemptions for students requiring accommodations, emergency situations, and teacher authorizations.
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Gettr Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Teacher To Student Ratios. [HB-1200]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Codifies the board of education's policy for class sizes to promote quality education and positive student-teacher interactions. Informs parents if changes to class sizes are needed.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Water Safety. [HB-1234]
[Water ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
Requires, and appropriates funds for, the Department of Education to establish a standards-based Water Safety Education Pilot Program. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Hawaiian Language Immersion Education. [HB-1203]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
Appropriate moneys to the Department of Education to establish a Hawaiian language immersion school, open to students in grades kindergarten through 12, that is located in the Leeward area of the island of Oahu.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Teacher Workforce Housing. [HB-1188]
[Housing ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as hard-to-staff. Requires reports to the Legislature. Amends the purpose and uses of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1178]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to establish a cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training program for public school students in grades six through twelve as part of existing health or physical education curriculum. Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the establishment of a cardiac emergency response plan in all public elementary, middle, intermediate, and high schools in the State.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1068]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in work-based learning programs established and regulated by the Department of Education.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Pupil Transportation Safety. [SB-1479]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amends sections 286-102 and 286-181, HRS, to allow exemptions to include use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans, which may not meet school bus regulations for school bus services, but which shall otherwise meet vehicle requirements and qualifications set forth in chapter 19-143, Hawaii Administrative Rules, to the extent required by the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education, when adult staff chaperone escorts of students are provided while students are being transported between designated locations off-campus and designated
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To School Meals. [SB-1394]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amends the law to reduce the amount the Department of Education is required to charge for school meals to all students enrolled in department schools.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Therapy Services. [SB-1389]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists to allow those professionals working for or contracted by the Department of Education to diagnose medical conditions that can be treated with their respective services.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Pupil Transportation Safety. [HB-1160]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amends sections 286-102 and 286-181, HRS, to allow exemptions to include use of motorcoaches, small buses, and vans, which may not meet school bus regulations for school bus services, but which shall otherwise meet vehicle requirements and qualifications set forth in chapter 19-143, Hawaii Administrative Rules, to the extent required by the Department of Transportation and the Department of Education, when adult staff chaperone escorts of students are provided while students are being transported between designated locations off-campus and designated
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Use Of Public Lands. [SB-1393]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Education ]
Requires the School Facilities Authority to consult with the Department of Education and other impacted departments or agencies before the conveyance of ownership rights or lease of lands to the School Facilities Authority. Repeals the requirement that the Department of Education transfer title to lands it holds upon request of the School Facilities Authority. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD3)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-1386]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Authorizes the Department of Education to establish a program to award a high school diploma to qualified persons who did not receive a high school diploma as a result of compulsorily or voluntarily induction into the armed services of the United States and to persons whose high school education was interrupted due to wartime practices.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Therapy Services. [HB-1070]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Expands the scopes of practice for occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech pathologists to allow those professionals working for or contracted by the Department of Education to diagnose medical conditions that can be treated with their respective services.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Computer Science Legislative Report. [HB-1071]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Changes the due date of the Department of Education's computer science legislative report from June 30 to twenty days prior to the start of the legislative regular session.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1069]
[Education ]
Adds 2 ex officio, voting members that represent the Department of Education and Board of Education to the School Facilities Authority Board. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Computer Science Legislative Report. [SB-1390]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Changes the due date of the Department of Education's annual computer science legislative report from June 30 to October 31. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1072]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for teacher-requested classroom supplies for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-1387]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allows newly graduated high school students to be eligible for workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in work-based learning programs established and regulated by the Department of Education.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-1073]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Requires the Department of Education to implement dyslexia-sensitive universal screenings, provide evidence-based interventions, and offer professional development on dyslexia and structured literacy.