Date: March 7, 2025

To add a new Article 11.05 to Law 85-2018, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Educational Reform Act”, for the purpose of providing for the creation of a so-called “University Alliances Program”, which will have the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Education to sign any necessary agreements or collaboration agreements with the University of Puerto Rico, so that the latter, through its students and teachers from the different schools of Education on the campuses of the system, provides mentoring, tutoring and support for students and teaching and non-teaching staff, in tasks related to the care and provision of supplementary services to the student population, in the different schools of the public education system, in order to ensure that remedial aid is obtained for students who are academically lagging behind, provided that such costs are reasonably compared with current prices in the market and that, in effect, they can be provided by the said university institution; repeal Law 47-2019, known as” Public School Student Support Act of the Government of Puerto Rico”; and for other related purposes.

‍To order the Puerto Rico Senate's Commission for the Development of Community Initiatives to conduct research into the functions of the “Puerto Rico Substance Use and Abuse Observatory”, attached to the Administration of Mental Health and Addiction Services (ASSMCA), the current scope of its statistical compilation and its use for public policy formulation. This legislative research must include an analysis of the need and viability of reconfiguring this program to establish a “Drug Observatory” as a multidisciplinary entity with the function of integrating, analyzing and disseminating up-to-date information on drug consumption and trafficking in Puerto Rico and related crimes in a way that allows a better understanding of this social phenomenon and contributes to the formulation and implementation of policies, decision-making, design and evaluation of programs and projects.

Fecha: 26 de septiembre de 2014

Para ordenar a la Autoridad de Puertos del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico que destine los recursos necesarios para recopilar, organizar y publicar las estadísticas sobre tráfico de pasajeros de todas las instalaciones portuarias dentro del Estado Libre Asociado, incluyendo los municipios de Vieques y Culebra, que posean la capacidad de permitir el transporte hacia dentro o fuera de los límites geográficos de Puerto Rico.