Explanatory Memorial on the P-MARCC

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17 December 2025

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.

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P. of S. 2648

Date: June 7, 2012

To amend Article 5 of Law No. 209 of August 28, 2003, as amended, known as the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act, to empower the Institute to develop continuing education initiatives to promote knowledge in the field of data collection and statistics systems, and the public policy established in said Act, and to coordinate this initiative with other public and private institutions, including universities in and outside Puerto Rico, the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Comptroller, the Federation and Association of Mayors, and for other purposes.

P. of S. No. 806

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.

R. of C. 138

Date: July 17, 2025R. de la C. 138: To order the Committee on Women's Affairs of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico to conduct research on any matter related to the full development of women in society, aimed at guaranteeing and expanding opportunities for women to have access to personal, occupational and professional training and training processes; promote concrete actions aimed at significantly improving the living conditions of women in their communities; achieving true equality, by promote, disseminate and execute a public policy of true gender equity; the legal and constitutional rights of women and their situation or status in society in legal, economic, political and social aspects; discrimination against women or possible violation of their legal and constitutional rights; femicides; the needs of single mothers and their families, of young women who, for reasons of violence, premature pregnancy or economic circumstances, among others, choose to abandon their studies, of women who because of abuse or divorce require a secure roof, professionals who require government support for the care of their sons and daughters and access to employment opportunities and business activities and those who require adequate access to sexual and reproductive health, prenatal, childbirth and post-partum services; and for other related purposes.