Law 230-2026 permits the Puerto Rico Institute of Forensic Sciences to make conditional job offers to physicians in their final year of forensic pathology training. ^[1] Puerto Rico Governor Jenniffer González Colón signed House Bill 1380 into Law 230-2026 to facilitate hiring for the Institute of Forensic Sciences. ^[2][3] Conditional job offers under the new law do not guarantee automatic appointment; candidates must complete training and meet all legal and licensing requirements first. ^[4] The stated goal of the law is to recruit forensic specialists before they are hired by other jurisdictions, addressing staffing shortages causing backlogs in autopsies and forensic reports. ^[5] Governor Jenniffer González Colón stated this legislation addresses critical staffing shortages at the forensic institute. ^[6]