Date: August 29, 2025Explanatory Memorial requested by the Puerto Rico Senate's Joint Commission on Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change on the draft of the Plan for Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change authored by the Committee of Experts and Advisors on Climate Change.

To order the Puerto Rico Senate's Commission for the Development of Community Initiatives to conduct research into the functions of the “Puerto Rico Substance Use and Abuse Observatory”, attached to the Administration of Mental Health and Addiction Services (ASSMCA), the current scope of its statistical compilation and its use for public policy formulation. This legislative research must include an analysis of the need and viability of reconfiguring this program to establish a “Drug Observatory” as a multidisciplinary entity with the function of integrating, analyzing and disseminating up-to-date information on drug consumption and trafficking in Puerto Rico and related crimes in a way that allows a better understanding of this social phenomenon and contributes to the formulation and implementation of policies, decision-making, design and evaluation of programs and projects.

To direct the Department of Health to conduct, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and the Graduate School of Public Health of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, a prevalence study to determine the statistical incidence of autism spectrum disorders in Puerto Rico.

To order the Integrated Development Commission of the Western Region of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives to carry out a comprehensive study on street food trucks in Western Puerto Rico, which must include an analysis of the state and municipal regulations that currently apply to this type of business and the feasibility of standardizing the matter in a single statute.

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