Date: October 15, 2014

To amend Article 6 of Law 209? 2003, as amended, in order to provide that the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico may request, accept and receive donations, and to set and collect reasonable fees for obtaining the information and studies that originate, analyze or disclose by the Institute; that the sums collected for this purpose will be entered into a special account called “Special Fund of the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico”, which may be used to defray the operating and operating expenses of the Institute and the statistical activities that the Institute determine; amend Article 8 of the above-mentioned Act No. 209? 2003, to establish that the Board of Directors of the Institute has the power to approve the acquisition of equipment, materials and services whose value exceeds one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars; and to amend Article 11 of the aforementioned Law 209? 2003, for...

To order the Committee on Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico to conduct continuous research on all matters related to economic priorities; planning, telecommunications; Public-Private Partnerships, energy, exchange and commercial competition at local, interstate or with other jurisdictions outside the United States of America; monopoly in its various expressions; technology and biotechnology; the economy of knowledge; strategic infrastructure projects that tend to economic development; and those issues and situations of industry, commerce, telecommunications, public-private alliances, energy and the economy in general.

Dates: September 17, 2014

To amend Article 10 of Act No. 15 of April 14, 1931, as amended, known as the “Organic Law of the Department of Labor and Human Resources”, to include the measurement of food safety in the surveys carried out by the Bureau of Statistics; and for other related purposes.