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Date: December 12, 2013

To order the Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education to vigorously implement the provisions of Articles 1.03 and 3.10 of Act No. 149? 1999, as amended, known as the “Organic Law of the Puerto Rico Department of Education”, and to review the agency's internal regulations and protocols on compulsory school attendance; to make it mandatory to intervene with students who leave schools during regular class hours, to open an administrative investigation into the intervened student, to refer to the relevant agencies; and for other related purposes.

Date: December 11, 2013

To order the Labor Affairs and Public Service Retirement Systems Committees and the Federal and International Affairs and Veterans Affairs Committees of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct a thorough investigation into the impact that an increase in the minimum wage would have on Puerto Rico.

Date: November 20, 2013

To add the new subparagraphs (a) and (q) and renumber the current subparagraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), (f), (g), (h), (i), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o), (p) and (q) as subparagraphs (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l), (m), (n), (o), (p), (q) and (s) of Article 1.3; amend Article 2.03; add the new paragraphs (3) and (9) and re-list the current paragraphs (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8), such as paragraphs (4), (5), (6), (7), (8) and (10) of Article 3.11 of Act No. 54 August 15, 1989, as amended, for the purpose of recognizing active empowerment of minors, who are experiencing a manifestation of violence, inequity or intimidation within a couple's relationship, to claim, before the appropriate authorities, an order of protection, without the need to receive the consent of their parent with parental authority, their legal guardian or the appearance of a judicial defender who provides them with legal capacity to claim the remedy that is appropriate in law;...

Date: November 20, 2013

To amend paragraph (d) of Article 8 of Law 78? 2013, known as the “Law of the Attorney for Persons with Disabilities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico” for the purpose of expressly including within the duties and responsibilities of that office the creation of an Integrated Labor Compliance System, which will serve as a continuous instrument for monitoring and adjusting public policy, programs, benefits, resources, incentives and services for people with disabilities in the area of employment and in business, commercial, cooperative opportunities and related economic activities, public or private; as well as for other purposes.

Date: November 20, 2013

To add a new Article 3.6, renumber the current Articles 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11, such as Articles 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12, respectively, add a new subparagraph (5) to paragraph (C) of the re-enumerated Article 3.8 of Act No. 54 of August 15, 1989, as amended, known as the “Act for the Prevention and Intervention against Domestic Violence”, in order to establish that every person convicted by the provisions of this mandate, must have a mandatory program to complete reeducation and retraining for to enable their rehabilitation for gender-based violence, before the consummation of their sentence; to extend the above-mentioned requirement to condition access to the privilege of parole on the fact that the person convicted of this type of abuse has completed the mandatory program created by virtue of this statute; and for other related purposes.