Requires the Department of Education to establish a tiered student bus fare rate system to include free bus passes for students and households that qualify for free or reduced lunch under the free and reduced price lunch program. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Appropriates funds for two positions in the executive office on early learning to enhance capacity and resources of the office. Effective 7/1/2051. (SD1)
Requires authorizers to timely provide certain information received from the Department of Education to charter schools. Amends the manner in which per-pupil funds are disbursed to public charter schools. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Appropriates funds to the State of Hawaii Museum of Monarchy History (Iolani Palace) and the State of Hawaii Museum of Natural and Cultural History (Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum), to be expended by the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. Effective 7/1/2050. (SD1)
Adds the director of Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education as an ex officio, nonvoting member to the early learning board. Effective 7/1/2051. (SD1)
Codifies the Prevent Suicide Hawaii Task Force and requires it to develop annual recommendations to the Legislature to reduce suicide by twenty-five per cent by 2025. Dissolves the task force on 1/1/2026. (SD1)
Appropriates an unspecified amount of funds to restore diagnostic, preventive, and restorative dental benefits to adult medicaid enrollees; provided that the department of human services obtains maximum federal matching funds available and pursues all funding sources, including private grants, prior to expending any general fund appropriations. (SD1)
Requires the department of human services to establish a neighbor islands blind and visually impaired service pilot program that provides training and other services to blind or visually impaired individuals residing on the neighbor islands. Requires a report to the legislature. Appropriates funds. Repeals 06/30/2025. Effective 7/1/2060. (SD1)
