THE SENATE

THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2020

 

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION

Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Chair

Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Vice Chair

 

NOTICE OF HEARING

 

 

DATE:

Monday, January 27, 2020

TIME:

2:45pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

A G E N D A

 

SB 2257

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Amends the minimum qualifications for nominees to the State Public Charter School Commission to require residency in the State.  Provides that commission members may be reimbursed for necessary and reasonable travel expenses incurred in the conduct of official commission business.

 

EDU, JDC/WAM

SB 2057

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Gives students enrolling in career and technical programs a preference or district exceptions for those programs in schools outside of the service area in which the student resides.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 2261

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TAXATION.

Provides an income tax exclusion for certain public school teachers who earn $60,000 or less per year.  Defines eligible teachers as school teachers, special education teachers, school librarians and school counselors employed by the DOE or a charter school.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 2052

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO LOAN FORGIVENESS FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION PROFESSIONALS.

Adds early childhood education students to the Hawaii educator loan program to allow the education loans of those individuals to be forgiven after an appropriate number of years teaching in early childhood education.  Appropriates funds.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 2295

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SERVICE-LEARNING.

Requires the Department of Education to implement a service-learning curriculum to develop student character, values, self-esteem, civic responsibility, and knowledge of local community issues and concerns though community service volunteer work.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 2256

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO TEACHER RECRUITMENT.

Authorizes the department of education to provide incentives to enhance the recruitment and retention of public school teachers.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 2263

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Broadens the scope of profit-making activities pupils can engage in at schools to include commercial enterprises.

 

EDU, JDC

SB 2063

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAMS.

Establishes the Hawaii After-School Program for Youth within the Department of Education community engagement branch to provide after school programs for children in grades six through eight.  Appropriates funds.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 2264

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SCHOOL LUNCH REFORM.

Increases the number of days by which students have to apply for free or reduced lunch and to replenish the student's meal fund.  Requires the department of education to report to the legislature regarding the number of students who are denied meals based on the inability to pay.  Appropriates funds to the special school lunch fund.

 

EDU, WAM

SB 2271

      Status & Testimony

RELATING TO SAFETY EQUIPMENT.

Requires Department of Education school football programs to ensure that each non-new football helmet used in a football program is reconditioned and recertified at least once every 2 years.  Establishes fines and other penalties for failure to properly recertify football helmets.  Establishes the football helmet recertification special fund.

 

EDU, JDC/WAM

 

 

 

 

Decision Making to follow, if time permits.

 

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FOR AMENDED NOTICES:  Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

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Senator Michelle N. Kidani

Chair