To amend Article 5 of Law 97 - 2018, known as the “Bill of Rights of People with Down Syndrome”, in order to impose on the Department of Health the obligation to establish a permanent external clinic, aimed at providing all the necessary and indispensable services for the full care and treatment of people aged zero (0) and older, with the condition of Down Syndrome; to provide for the creation and management of a registry of people with Down Syndrome, in order for the State to maintain statistics officers and create a profile of the cases that exist in Puerto Rico with this condition; and for other related purposes.


To direct the Senate of Puerto Rico’s Committees on Family, Women, the Elderly, and Persons with Functional Diversity and Disabilities; and on Health to conduct an investigation into the abandonment of elderly individuals in hospitals, the number of cases, the most affected areas or municipalities, the reasons for this, and its impact on the hospital industry, as well as to provide potential alternatives and protocols that should be implemented to eliminate this practice; and for other related purposes.
To amend Article 3 of Law 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act” to provide that the Office of the Comptroller extends the term of audits of the accounts and operations of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute to three (3) years; and for other related purposes.

To declare a State of Emergency in the Puerto Rico public education system, in order to prioritize student literacy in the planning and execution of teaching and learning processes over the standard expectations established by the Department of Education, until the learning gaps in reading and writing skills resulting from hurricanes, earthquakes, institutional austerity measures, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the overstimulation of children by electronic devices are addressed.

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