Letter to Honorable Nydia Velázquez, of the U.S. House of Representatives, Congress of the United States. I. Introduction / II.Why do we need to raise the quality of Puerto Rico data and statistics as part of any solution to Puerto Rico's economic and fiscal crisis? / III. Report of the Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico / IV. Fiscal Oversight and Management Board / V. Conclusions

Date: February 12, 2025

To amend paragraph (f) of Act No. 209 of August 28, 2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, so that all agencies, corporations and instruments of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are required to send within sixty (60) days to the Institute any publication of statistical reports they produce, in order to be incorporated into the Puerto Rico Statistics Inventory; and for other related purposes.

Date: September 24, 2014

To create the “Freedom of Knowledge Act”, in order to declare the public nature of any study, the product of research funded with public, state or federal funds for the purpose of expanding the public policy of transparency based on access to public and reliable information and statistics; to guarantee access to the general public to any study resulting from research funded with public, state or federal funds; to establish responsibilities, exceptions, penalties and mandatory procedures and delegate the guarantees of this Act to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.