Date: June 4, 2025

To amend Article 5 of Law 3-2017, as amended, known as the “Act to Address the Fiscal and Budgetary Economic Crisis to Ensure the Functioning of the Government of Puerto Rico” in order to guarantee the autonomy of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute in compliance with Law 209-2003, as amended.

To create the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico” for the purpose of establishing as a principle of public policy free access to data that is originated, kept or received by government agencies and that can be used and reused freely; create the position of the Chief Data Officer and establish their powers and duties; transfer and clarify the responsibilities and duties of the Office of Management and Budget; establish the obligation of government bodies to publish their data public in a machine-readable format (“machine-readable”), through the Puerto Rico Open Data Interconnection Portal; establish the obligation of government agencies to update their official statistical indicators and to publish them through the Puerto Rico Indicator System, in accordance with the rules established by the Chief Data Officer; provide the Institute with the power to regulate the formats in which any government agency will store information and deliver data; provide that the Institute of Statistics will be the only governmental entity with the power to prepare any regulations related to the publication and updating of official statistics and indexes; and to repeal Act No. 69-2005.

Date: April 14, 2014

To order the Integrated Development Commissions of the Eastern Region; and the Labor Affairs and Public Service Retirement Systems Committees of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to carry out comprehensive research on the unemployment rate, its causes, and possible sources of employment for the municipalities of Yabucoa, Maunabo, Patillas and San Lorenzo.