Date: September 16, 2015

To order the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) to transfer, free of charge, to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, the ownership of land and structure, located on Roosevelt Avenue, in Hato Rey, Municipality of San Juan, to ensure that the headquarters of the Institute are located in an accessible building with the space necessary to carry out its mission.

Date: June 6, 2023R. C. del S. 377: To order the Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce to create a plan for the economic development of the Western Region of Puerto Rico, in order to encourage economic development, attract investors to the area, the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings, attract income to municipalities, increase employment and establish a sustainable economic landscape that improves the quality of life of residents of the Western zone.

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.