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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: February 10, 2015

To amend Act 209? 2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, for the purpose of adding new Articles, 13, 14 and 15, amending current Articles 4 and 6, renumbering Articles 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 as Articles 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22, so as to ensure the proper management of statistics in the Government of Puerto Rico and promote their dissemination; recognize additional powers to the Institute of Statistics and establish new obligations for government bodies; and for other related purposes.

To add an Article 9.1 to Act No. 121 of July 12, 1986, as amended, known as the “Act to Establish Public Policy and the Bill of Rights for the Elderly in Puerto Rico”, for the purpose of authorizing a financial institution to withhold the disbursement of funds from an account belonging to an elderly person when it has knowledge or suspicion that such person is a victim of financial exploitation, and to require that they report the withholding due to knowledge or suspicion of such a case.

R. C. of S. 120

Date: June 28, 2021

To order the Department of the Family and the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico to jointly prepare and publish an Annual Child Abuse Profile.

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La Ley Núm. 209-2003, según enmendada, creó al Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico como una entidad gubernamental autónoma con la encomienda de coordinar el servicio de producción de estadísticas del Gobierno para asegurar que los sistemas de recopilación de datos y estadísticas, en los que se basan las políticas públicas, estén completos, sean confiables y de acceso rápido y universal.

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