THE SENATE
THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2020

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
Senator Michelle N. Kidani, Chair
Senator Donna Mercado Kim, Vice-Chair

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2020

DATE:	Friday, January 31, 2020
TIME:	2:45 PM
PLACE:	Conference Room 229 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

SB2261 Status and 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
SB2052 Status and 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
SB2295 Status and 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
SB2263 Status and Testimony	RELATING TO EDUCATION. Broadens the scope of profit-making activities pupils can engage in at schools to include commercial enterprises.	EDU, JDC
SB2271 Status and 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

No testimony will be accepted.

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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-7100.