HB 238 Hawaii House · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO EARLY CHILD CARE.

Summary

Requires the Department of Human Services to establish and implement a Child Care Provider Subsidy and Bonus Program to provide subsidies to retain the existing child care workforce in licensed infant and toddler child care centers, group child care centers, and group child care homes and bonuses to registered family child care homes. Requires annual reports to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)

Issues: ✓ Labor & Employment

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Last action Feb 5, 2025

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HB238 → HB238_HD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill text was reformatted from a standard legislative format to include metadata headers and document properties typical of a digital bill tracking system. The substantive legislative content, including the bill's purpose, program details, eligibility criteria, funding provisions, and effective date, remains unchanged. The only notable substantive change is the effective date in Section 7, which was set to July 1, 3000 (likely a placeholder), whereas the original version did not specify an effective date.

TECHNICAL

Removed standard legislative header formatting including 'HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES', 'THIRTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2025', and page numbering.

Added digital document metadata headers including author name, file properties, and document identifiers.

TIMELINE

Section 7 effective date was changed from unspecified to July 1, 3000, which appears to be a placeholder date rather than a substantive policy change.

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Committee

Feb 5, 2025

Committee

Reported from HSH (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 154) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.

lower

Jan 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

The committee on HSH recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 9 Ayes: Representative(s) Marten, Olds, Amato, Chun, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Takayama, Takenouchi, Alcos, Garcia; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and Excused: none.

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to HSH, FIN, referral sheet 1

lower

Jan 17, 2025

Introduced

Introduced and Pass First Reading.

lower

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced

Pending introduction.

lower

18 primary · 0 co-sponsors