HB 1188 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO TEACHER WORKFORCE HOUSING.

Summary

Establishes a Teacher Workforce Housing Stipend Program to support teacher retention at public and charter schools classified as hard-to-staff. Requires reports to the Legislature. Amends the purpose and uses of the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD2)

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 22, 2025 Last action Feb 14, 2025

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What changed between versions

HB1188_HD1 → HB1188_HD2 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This revision updates HB 1188 from House Draft 1 to House Draft 2, primarily correcting formatting errors, standardizing statutory language, and clarifying the structure of the bill. The substantive policy content regarding teacher housing stipends remains consistent between the two versions.

TECHNICAL

Corrected inconsistent formatting and spacing in the bill text, including fixing line breaks and removing extraneous metadata headers.

Standardized the title of the new statute from 'Teacher workforce housing; stipend program; hard-to-staff schools' to 'Teacher workforce housing stipend program; hard-to-staff schools' for consistency.

Adjusted the effective date placeholder from July 1, 3000, to a standard placeholder format for future legislative action.

Reorganized the amendment to Section 302A-833 to clearly delineate subsections (a) and (b) regarding the Teachers' Housing Revolving Fund.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN as amended in HD 2 with none voting aye with reservations; Representative(s) Pierick voting no (1) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4).

lower

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from HSG (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 764) as amended in HD 2, recommending referral to FIN.

lower

Feb 12, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HSG recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 8 Ayes: Representative(s) Evslin, Miyake, Grandinetti, Kila, Kitagawa, La Chica, Muraoka, Pierick; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Cochran.

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Committee

Reported from EDN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 173) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to HSG.

lower

Jan 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 10 Ayes: Representative(s) Woodson, La Chica, Amato, Evslin, Garrett, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Muraoka, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Kapela.

lower

Jan 27, 2025

Committee

Referred to EDN, HSG, FIN, referral sheet 4

lower

Jan 23, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 22, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

10 primary · 0 co-sponsors