HB 962 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

Summary

Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer a two-year school librarian pilot program to provide funding for qualifying schools to hire librarians. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

House Passage

Feb 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Mar 4, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB962 → HB962_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended from the House version (HB962) to the House Committee on Education (HD1) version, primarily changing the effective date from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, and adding metadata information. No substantive policy changes were made to the core provisions regarding the school librarian pilot program.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; the legislative intent and program requirements remain identical.

TIMELINE

The effective date was changed from July 1, 2025 to July 1, 3000, which appears to be an error or placeholder rather than an intentional policy change.

TECHNICAL

Metadata and version control information was added at the beginning of the document, including author names, timestamps, and document identifiers.

Page headers and footer information from the original House version were removed and replaced with HD1 committee markup.

Floor votes

How they voted

This bill passed the House by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Mar 4, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDU, WAM.

upper

Feb 28, 2025

Introduced

Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 44).

upper

Feb 27, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate.

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward.

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

Reported from EDN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 463) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 3

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

13 primary · 0 co-sponsors