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TWENTY-TWO BILLS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR GREEN ON THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2023, ENACTED INTO LAW

Press Release

Date: June 1, 2023
Location: HONOLULU, HI
Issues: Executive Branch

On Thursday, June 1, 2023, Governor Josh Green, M.D. signed 22 of the 245 bills enrolled for his consideration since the adjournment of the 2023 Regular Session.

The bills signed by Governor Green included bills that:

Raise salaries and pay for benefits of Hawaiʻi's public employees, including teachers, health and correctional workers, registered professional nurses, firefighters, and other employees, which will improve the quality of life of these residents and aid in recruitment and retention efforts to strengthen the workforce in the state;

Preserve access to health care for Medicaid recipients and strengthen the Nursing Facility Sustainability

Program by making the program permanent and ensuring the program's sustainability;

Enhance Hawaiʻi's "Our Care, Our Choice Act" to provide terminally ill individuals with six months or less to live with greater access to the end-of-life options under the law; and

Help Hawaiʻi's small businesses by allowing certain pass-through entities to elect to pay Hawaiʻi income tax at the entity level.


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