---
type: "Bill"
title: "RELATING TO THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR SPECIAL FUND."
description: "Retroactively requires stipend funds repaid after July 1, 2023, by a stipend recipient under the Hawaii Early Childhood Educator Stipend Program to be deposited into the Early Learning Special Fund. Repeals the Hawaii Early Childhood Educator Special Fund. (SD1)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/hi"
legislature: "Hawaii Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 1065"
citation: "Hawaii HB 1065 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Early Childhood Educator Special Fund", "Early Childhood Educator Stipend Program", "Executive Office on Early Learning", "Repeal"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["NAKAMURA"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c55db65-1086-4c1f-b9a1-016770475d23"
source_url: "https://capitol.hawaii.gov/session/archives/measure_indiv_Archives.aspx?billtype=HB&billnumber=1065&year=2025"
source_hash: "273e7154d962f2c426c84d5c585308956c9ecf5cd018aa4dd9221acbf0c83e85"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-hi"]
---

# Hawaii HB 1065 (2025) — RELATING TO THE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATOR SPECIAL FUND.

Retroactively requires stipend funds repaid after July 1, 2023, by a stipend recipient under the Hawaii Early Childhood Educator Stipend Program to be deposited into the Early Learning Special Fund. Repeals the Hawaii Early Childhood Educator Special Fund. (SD1)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB1065** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB1065_.HTM)
2. **HB1065_HD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB1065_HD1_.HTM)
3. **HB1065_SD1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://data.capitol.hawaii.gov/sessions/session2025/bills/HB1065_SD1_.HTM)

## Votes

- The committee on EDN recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Reconsider: Report adopted; Passed Third Reading. — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsider: The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- The committee(s) on EDU recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. — **12–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- NAKAMURA — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-05-15** Act 056, on 05/15/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1156). `became-law`
- **2025-05-15** Act 056, 05/15/2025 (Gov. Msg. No. 1156). `became-law`
- **2025-04-21** Transmitted to Governor.
- **2025-04-22** Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 794). `receipt`
- **2025-04-21** Passed Final Reading as amended in SD 1 with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran excused (1). `passage`
- **2025-04-21** House agrees to Senate amendment(s).
- **2025-04-21** Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 760). `receipt`
- **2025-04-17** Reconsideration of action taken on 04-10-25.
- **2025-04-11** Received notice of disagreement (Hse. Com. No. 704). `receipt`
- **2025-04-10** House disagrees with Senate amendment (s). `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-08** Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 724) in amended form (SD 1).
- **2025-04-08** Report adopted; Passed Third Reading. Ayes, 25; Aye(s) with reservations: none . Noes, 0 (none). Excused, 0 (none). Transmitted to House. `passage`
- **2025-04-04** One Day Notice 04-08-25.
- **2025-04-04** Reported from WAM (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1772) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading.
- **2025-04-01** The committee(s) on WAM recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in WAM were as follows: 12 Aye(s): Senator(s) Dela Cruz, Moriwaki, Aquino, Elefante, Hashimoto, Inouye, Kanuha, Kidani, Kim, Lee, C., Wakai, Fevella; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 1 Excused: Senator(s) DeCoite. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** The committee(s) on WAM will hold a public decision making on 04-01-25 10:01AM; Conference Room 211 & Videoconference.
- **2025-03-14** Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to WAM. `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** Reported from EDU (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 1086) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referral to WAM.
- **2025-03-10** 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. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-07** The committee(s) on EDU has scheduled a public hearing on 03-10-25 3:00PM; Conference Room 229 & Videoconference.
- **2025-03-04** Referred to EDU, WAM. `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Passed First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-28** Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 67). `introduction, receipt`
- **2025-02-27** Passed Third Reading with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Pierick, Templo, Ward excused (4). Transmitted to Senate. `passage`
- **2025-02-27** Reported from FIN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 858), recommending passage on Third Reading.
- **2025-02-20** The committee on FIN recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 14 Ayes: Representative(s) Yamashita, Takenouchi, Grandinetti, Holt, Hussey, Keohokapu-Lee Loy, Kitagawa, Kusch, Lamosao, Lee, M., Miyake, Morikawa, Templo, Reyes Oda; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Alcos, Ward. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-18** Bill scheduled to be heard by FIN on Thursday, 02-20-25 10:00AM in House conference room 308 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
- **2025-02-14** Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Representative(s) Cochran, Matayoshi, Poepoe, Ward excused (4). `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** Reported from EDN (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 756) as amended in HD 1, recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to FIN.
- **2025-02-13** 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, Kapela, Kila, Olds, Sayama, Souza; Ayes with reservations: none; Noes: none; and 1 Excused: Representative(s) Muraoka. `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-11** Bill scheduled to be heard by EDN on Thursday, 02-13-25 2:00PM in House conference room 309 VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE.
- **2025-01-23** Referred to EDN, FIN, referral sheet 3 `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-23** Introduced and Pass First Reading. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-01-21** Pending introduction.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9c55db65-1086-4c1f-b9a1-016770475d23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Hawaii legislature records).