Date: March 5, 2014

To order the Government Commission and the Commission on Socio-Economic Development and Planning of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct an exhaustive investigation into the collection and methodology used by the agencies of the Executive Branch in relation to statistical information of public interest, with special emphasis on the efforts and duties of the Planning Board and the Statistics Institute; to examine the methods of updating and reliability of the statistics collected by governmental entities; and evaluate the resources available for State statistical management and the legal framework that affects it, in order to identify needs, and to know, if necessary, to make any adjustments or amendments that promote the relevance, objectivity and correctness of information based on statistical data; and for other related purposes.

Date: March 3, 2014

To amend Article 2; add new sub-paragraphs (l), (m), (n) and (o) to paragraph (d) and to amend paragraph (e) of Article 3; and to amend Article 6 of Act No. 199? 2010, known as the “Demographic Challenge Act”, for the purpose of including the Office of the Attorney for the Elderly, the Office of Management and Budget and the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico among the governmental and private entities that make up the Multisectorial and Multidisciplinary Committee for government, academia and private enterprise; and for other purposes.

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Date: January 24, 2014

To amend Articles 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11 and 58 of Law 246? 2011, known as the “Child Safety, Welfare and Protection Act”, with the purpose of adding “human trafficking” in any of its forms as one of the forms of child abuse contemplated as public policy in this law; adding “human trafficking” as one of the definitions of child sexual abuse; including “human trafficking” as part of the definition of mistreatment and institutional abuse; defining the conduct or concept of “human trafficking”; including prevention against human trafficking as an obligation of both the family such as the State; include human trafficking as one of the instances in which the Department of Justice and the Puerto Rico Police must carry out joint investigations when cases of abuse are referred to or presented; include cases of human trafficking in the Central Register of Protection Cases; include, within the responsibilities of the Department of the Family with regard to

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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.