SB 426 Hawaii Senate · 2025 Regular Session

RELATING TO AN EARLY LEARNING APPRENTICESHIP GRANT PROGRAM.

Summary

Establishes an Early Learning Apprenticeship Grant Program to be administered by the University of Hawaii to provide financial support for early learning program service providers in the State to participate in state- or federally-approved early learning apprenticeship programs. Requires an annual report to the Legislature. Appropriates funds. Effective 7/31/2050. (SD1)

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 16, 2025 Last action Feb 14, 2025

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SB426 → SB426_SD1 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was reformatted from a standard legislative document to a structured data format (SD1). The substantive policy content remains unchanged, including the establishment of an early learning apprenticeship grant program, eligibility criteria, funding requirements, and reporting obligations. The primary change is the conversion of the document structure rather than policy modifications.

Scope change

No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; only formatting and metadata structure were altered.

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Document structure was converted from standard legislative text to a structured data format (SD1) with metadata headers.

Page numbers and document headers were replaced with structured metadata fields.

Line-by-line legislative text was consolidated into paragraph blocks while maintaining identical content.

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Committee

Feb 14, 2025

Committee

Reported from HRE/EDU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 524) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.

upper

Feb 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in EDU were as follows: 5 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kidani, Kim, Hashimoto, Kanuha, DeCorte; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 0 Excused: none.

upper

Feb 11, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HRE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in HRE were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Kim, Kidani, Fukunaga, Hashimoto; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) Fevella.

upper

Feb 7, 2025

Upper · Passed

The committee(s) on HRE/EDU has scheduled a public hearing on 02-11-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.

upper

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

Referred to HRE/EDU, WAM.

upper

Jan 16, 2025

Introduced

Introduced.

upper

7 primary · 2 co-sponsors