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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To School Cafeteria Meal Costs. [SB-789]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Reduces the amount the Department of Education is authorized to charge for school meals to all students enrolled in department schools to no more than one-quarter of the cost of preparing the meals. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Relating To The Freedom To Read. [SB-799]
[Education ]
[Libraries ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requires the Department of Education to select materials for inclusion, circulation, and exclusion in school library collections according to certain criteria. Requires the Department of Education to uphold the freedom to read. Prohibits the Department of Education from excluding books based on certain criteria. Requires the State Librarian to select materials for inclusion, circulation, and exclusion in school library collections according to certain criteria. Requires the State Librarian to uphold the freedom to read. Prohibits the State Librarian
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Voter Registration. [HB-473]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishes a process, beginning on January 1, 2026, for automatically preregistering or registering public, charter, and private school-enrolled students who are at least 16 years old to vote.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Community Schools. [SB-821]
[Education ]
[Community Development ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education for community schools and a program manager position.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-485]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishes a Department of Education statewide policy for cell phone use in all department schools to ensure clear and enforceable guidelines and foster an environment conducive to learning.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Board Of Education. [SB-747]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Taxes ]
Establishes an Audit Office within the Board of Education to audit operations and expenditures of the Department of Education. Exempts positions within the Audit Office from civil service law. Requires annual reports to the Governor and Director of Finance. Authorizes the Legislature to request a copy of the annual reports. Establishes positions within the Audit Office. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Food Dyes. [SB-791]
[Food ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Prohibits certain food dye additives from being served in school meals of the Department of Education and charter schools.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Schools. [SB-790]
[Education ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Requires the Department of Education to establish a food waste composting pilot project at Nanakuli High and Intermediate School. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To School Meals. [SB-736]
[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 2025 Regular Session
Relating To School Impact Fees. [HB-422]
[Education ]
[Housing ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Repeals the construction cost component of school impact fees. Exempts government housing developments, affordable housing units and projects, and Hawaiian home lands housing from school impact fees. Requires the School Facilities Authority to adopt rules governing fee collection. Increases the minimum number of units in a development to trigger land dedication provisions of the land component impact fee. Requires a report to the Legislature on program efficacy. Sunsets 7/1/2029. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-333]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Children and Youth ]
Beginning with the - school year, requires public elementary, middle, and high school classes to start no earlier than 8:30 a.m. Requires the Department of Education to adjust state-provided bus and school meal schedules accordingly.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Board Of Education. [SB-684]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requires the Board of Education to adopt administrative rules to ban the usage of cell phones at Department of Education schools.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Department Of Education. [SB-659]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Food ]
Exempts from the electronic procurement system the Department of Education's purchase of fresh local agricultural products and local value-added processed, agricultural, or food products not exceeding a certain amount, subject to certain requirements. Requires the Department of Education to establish guidelines for determining a geographic preference for locally sourced products. Exempts the Department of Education from the requirement that certain agricultural products are subject to the Hawaii Public Procurement Code. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-610]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Energy ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
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 the nearest dollar or provide a specific contribution amount. Deposits the proceeds into the rounding up for teachers' salaries special fund. Appropriates moneys.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-605]
[Education ]
[Finance ]
[Children and Youth ]
Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in kindergarten through grade twelve. Requires students in grades nine through twelve to complete a one-half credit in financial literacy before graduation. Requires the Board of Education to provide professional development to teachers who are teaching financial literacy courses.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Safety. [SB-646]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Crime ]
Requires the Department of Education to assign school resource officers or guards to serve at public elementary schools and state prekindergarten programs. Requires report to the Legislature. Requires the Department of Education to seek funding from federal grants. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-289]
[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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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [HB-335]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establishes a two-year pilot program that, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free school lunch to all students enrolled at a department school. Requires reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Repeals on 6/30/2027.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Taxation. [SB-628]
[Taxes ]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
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 special fund.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To School Bus Services. [HB-288]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Authorizes the Department of Education to use alternative vehicles for student transportation under certain conditions. Allows the Department of Education to institute a staggered school hours program in public schools. Appropriates funds for the purchase of alternative vehicles and individuals to obtain CDL licensure. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)