Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green signed 22 bills into law last week that became state law on June 1.
The bills cover a myriad of issues, including raising salaries and pay for benefits of Hawaiʻi’s public employees. This also includes teachers, health and correctional workers, registered professional nurses, firefighters, and other employees.
Several of the bills address health care, including enhancing the state’s “Our Care, Our Choice Act,” which provides terminally ill individuals with six months or less to live with greater access to the end-of-life options under the law.
There are bills that will help Hawaiʻi’s small businesses by allowing certain pass-through entities to elect to pay Hawaiʻi income tax at the entity level.
At the end of the 2023 legislative session, a total of 245 bills were sent to the governor’s desk for consideration.
Click links to see full details of bills enacted into law.
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