To order the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute to carry out a formal census, with all the necessary research and scientific guidelines to help clarify the number of deaf people in the country, as well as their peculiarities and language used to communicate.

Date: June 8, 2021

To order the Social Welfare and Aging Affairs; and Life and Family Committees of the Puerto Rico Senate to conduct an investigation into child abuse in Puerto Rico, including, but not limited to: handling complaints of child abuse and the services provided to victims by the Department of the Family, the Department of Health, the Department of Education, the Puerto Rico Police and the Department of Justice; the methodology and collection of child abuse statistics in Puerto Rico used by government agencies such as: the Department of the Family, the Puerto Rico Police, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics; examine the processes for updating and reliability of statistics and government efforts for the prevention of child abuse.

To adopt the “Law for the Prevention, Protection and Assistance to Victims and Intervention against Human Trafficking”, with the purpose of protecting and helping victims of human trafficking in Puerto Rico; establishing mechanisms for the prevention and prosecution of the crime of human trafficking; creating the Multisectorial Board for the Prevention and Remedies against the Crime of Human Trafficking in Puerto Rico composed of agencies of the Executive, Legislative and Judicial Branch, and non-governmental organizations, to study and monitor the problem of human trafficking in Puerto Rico and, among other things, to propose legislation, regulations and protocols to combat this evil; to enable collaborative agreements between agencies; and to establish terms for delivering reports so that established recommendations can be immediately addressed; to amend Article 7 of Law 183-1998, as amended, known as the “Law for Compensation for Victims of Crime”, in order to...