Date: March 18, 2024

To amend Article 2; add Article 2A; amend Article 3; add an Article 3A; amend Article 4; add Articles 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D and 4E; amend Article 5; add Articles 5A, 5B and 5C; amend Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9; and add Articles 9A, 9B and 11A to Law 141-2019, as amended, known as the “Transparency and Expedited Procedure for Access to Public Information Act”; and repeal Act 141-2019, as amended, known as the “Transparency and Expedited Procedure for Access to Public Information Act”; and to repeal Act 141-2019 122-2019, known as the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico”, in order to incorporate definitions into the referred to Law 141-2019; reduce exceptions for the denial of public information in the face of confidentiality claims that may be raised by governmental entities; establish that the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics will be the entity responsible for implementing the public policy for access to public information; creating the position and duties of the Coordinator of Access to Public Information of the Government of Puerto Rico; assigning new functions to Information Officers, and that one of these be the head of the entity's statistics unit governmental; shorten the terms for Information Officers to deliver public information requested by citizens; amend the review appeal; impose administrative sanctions; allocate funds; and for other purposes.

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.

To order the Committee on Social and Economic Revitalization of the Senate of Puerto Rico to carry out a thorough and comprehensive study, including, an inventory of the tax incentive decrees granted in Puerto Rico, and which are in force, under Act 135-1997, Tax Incentives Act of 1998, Act 73-2008, as amended, Act on Economic Incentives for the Development of Puerto Rico, Act 83-2010, Law on Green Energy Incentives of Puerto Rico, Act 20-2012, Incentives for Export Businesses Services in Puerto Rico, Law 22-2012, New Resident Investor Act, Act 187-2015, the Interagency Validation Portal Act for Granting Incentives for Economic Development in Puerto Rico, and other existing laws that are intended to provide tax incentives, in order to measure their impact on the economy of Puerto Rico compared to their fiscal impact on the coffers of the Government of Puerto Rico.