Senate Bill 8-184 will increase the fee from $15 to $30.
This will bring in more funding to the Protected Areas Network management plan to which the green fee is intended, the president said.
Since Nov. 1, 2009, the green fee has been collected aside from the $20 departure fee from visitors leaving Palau.
Exempted from paying the fee are members of the diplomatic mission and their families, pilots, masters and other crew members of any vessel or aircraft lawfully operating as common carrier, persons who are in transit aboard aircraft stopping in Palau and leaving within 24 hours, persons with dependent visa, foreign government representative visa, government employee visa, investor visa, missionary visa, resident visa, student visa, work visa, and persons with valid Palau passports and those with birth certificates showing the person was born in Palau of at least one Palauan parent.
An amendment, which was attached to the supplemental budget law signed by Toribiong on May 2010, required every non-Palauan passport holder who departs this island nation to pay the fee.
Exempted non-Palauan passport holders are diplomats, transiting passengers, pilots, masters and other crew members of any aircraft or vessel lawfully operating as a common carrier.
