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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Related To Teacher Loans. [SB-388]
[Student Loans ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
Establishes a teacher loan program revolving fund 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 commit to teach for seven years at a Hawaii public school or public charter school. Appropriates funds.
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Gettr Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To The Department Of Education. [SB-409]
[Education ]
[Energy ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to design and construct photovoltaic panel coverings over playgrounds at all Department of Education schools.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Health Care Workforce Development. [SB-294]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Appropriates funds to support educational training programs to expand the State's health care workforce. Allocates funds to the Department of Education for health care certificate programs and classroom renovations for health care training in public high schools. Allocates funds to the University of Hawaii for education programs that support certified nurse assistants in becoming licensed practical nurses.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Local Agricultural Products. [HB-110]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Education ]
Modifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products. (SD2)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Surfing. [HB-133]
[Sports ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Children and Youth ]
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport. (CD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Decentralization Of Department Of Education Farm To School. [SB-248]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Provides that complex area superintendents have the authority to implement the farm to school and farm to school meals programs. Requires certain school cafeteria supervisors to report directly to complex area superintendents. Establishes school cafeteria supervisor positions. Requires the Department of Human Resources Development to conduct a compensation review of school cafeteria supervisor positions. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Local Agricultural Products. [SB-249]
[Agriculture ]
[Food ]
[Education ]
Clarifies certain benchmark goals and timeline for the Department of Education to provide locally-sourced agricultural and food products. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To A Library In Ewa Beach. [SB-187]
[Education ]
[Libraries ]
Requires the Department of Education to transfer the Ewa Beach Public and School Library from the State Public Library System to James Campbell High School.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Surfing. [SB-178]
[Sports ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
Appropriates funds to the Department of Education to support the establishment of surfing as an interscholastic sport.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Student Out-of-service-area Attendance. [SB-201]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Prohibits the Department of Education from mandating that any student attend a school outside the student's service area. Establishes a 5 year phaseout period. Requires the DOE to submit annual progress reports.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Permits. [SB-85]
[Education ]
[Construction ]
Establishes an exemption from applicable county permit requirements for repetitive construction projects for facilities under the control of the Department of Education, University of Hawaii, or School Facilities Authority. Repeals 1/1/2030.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-86]
[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 Education. [SB-64]
[Education ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires each public school in the State, including charter schools, to employ, or retain under contract, at least 1 mental health professional for every 250 students enrolled, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Department of Education to submit a progress report to the Legislature no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2026. Appropriates moneys for the Department of Education to contract for mental health professionals and to establish an unspecified number of fulltime
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-91]
[Education ]
[Finance ]
[Children and Youth ]
Beginning with the 2027-2028 school year, requires the Department of Education to include the teaching of financial literacy in the personal transition plan requirement for each student.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-43]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, requires the Department of Education to provide free breakfast and lunch to all students enrolled in department schools. Appropriates funds.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-63]
[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 Government. [SB-99]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Retirement ]
[Public Safety ]
Allows a retirant to be employed without reenrollment in the Employees' Retirement System and without loss or interruption of retirement benefits if the retirant is employed as a school resource officer or investigator in positions identified by the Department of Education or the Department of the Attorney General, respectively, as a labor shortage or difficult-to-fill positions, subject to certain conditions. Requires the Director of Human Resources of the appropriate state jurisdiction or the human resources management chief executive of each
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Education. [SB-84]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, establishes a pilot program that requires the Department of Education to include cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training for public school students in grades six through twelve as part of existing health or physical education curriculum. Requires all public elementary, middle, intermediate, and high schools in the state to have a cardiac emergency response plan as part of the pilot program. Establishes standards for the cardiac emergency response plan. Requires school
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Mental Health. [SB-34]
[Mental Health ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requires the Department of Education to identify an absence due to the mental health of a student as an excused absence. Defines the term "excused absence". Exempts an absence due to the mental health of a student from the enforcement of penalties relating to compulsory attendance at school. Limits the number of excused absences that may be taken by a student due to mental health reasons.
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Voter Registration. [SB-39]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Education ]
[Data Privacy ]
Makes an application for voter registration part of the enrollment applications or course registration process for Department of Education high schools. Requires eligible student applicants to be given the choice to be registered to vote. Requires updating of names and addresses of eligible student applicants who are already registered to vote unless the applicant declines. Requires the sharing of certain information among the counties, Department of Education, election personnel, and online voter registration system.