P. of C. 2944

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17 December 2025

Date: May 25, 2016

To establish public policy for access to government information and documentation; to order, organize and regulate real access mechanisms; to establish principles and instruments to guarantee access; to establish the governmental obligation to inform and to educate on the principle and practice of governmental transparency, access to information and documentation and to the mechanisms of how to obtain it; organize and regulate mechanisms for creating records; order the appointment of an Information Officer in each governmental entity; create the position of Public Information Ombudsman; create an Administrative Board to review disputes over violations of this law; schedule a final Judicial Appeal procedure to the decisions of this Board and for other purposes.

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Date: March 18, 2015

To create the “Law of Transformation to the Tax System of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”, also known as the Internal Revenue Code of 2015, for the purpose of establishing a tax system into a simpler, fairer, more effective, broad-based one that is easy to oversee and promotes economic development; to significantly reduce income contribution rates to individuals and corporations; to eliminate sales and use tax; to establish a value added tax; to establish transitional provisions for repeal of Act No. 1-2011, as amended, known as the Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code of 2011; for other related purposes.

P. of C. 2388

Date: April 17, 2015

To add new paragraphs (o) and (p), and to redesignate the current paragraphs (o), (p), (q) and (r), such as paragraphs (q), (r), (s) and (t), respectively, of Article 5 of Law 209? 2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, for the purpose of giving the said governmental entity the responsibility to promote the full inclusion of Puerto Rico in all international statistical programs, through bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements in statistical matters with other organizations, countries or regions, in order to have measurement mechanisms to compare the development of the Island with the rest of the countries of the world; and to temper the provisions of this Act with the provisions of paragraph (j) of Article 4 of Act No. 77 of June 19, 1979, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Administration of Federal Affairs Act”.

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Date: November 9, 2010

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