RELATING TO EDUCATION.
Summary
Mandates the legislature to raise and allocate sufficient funding to provide a quality public education to the students of Hawaii. Establishes a base rate of funding allocation equal to at least the average of the operating budgets of the five school districts nationwide with the most comparable consumer price indices, most recently calculated by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, when calculated on a per-pupil basis.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 21, 2022
Last action Jan 24, 2022
Floor votes
How they voted
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
3
Key actions
0
Committee
1
Jan 24, 2022
Committee
Referred to EDU, WAM.
upper
Jan 21, 2022
Introduced
Introduced.
upper
3 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Joy San Buenaventura
DDemocratic
P
LA
Laura Acasio
DDemocratic
P
Stanley Chang
DDemocratic
Co
GR
Gil Riviere
DDemocratic
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