Date: October 22, 2015

To establish the “Puerto Rico Vital Event Registration Act”, for the purpose of establishing the Puerto Rico Vital Event Registration Office (OREV), attached to the Department of Health; establishing its functions and responsibilities; providing for a minimum amount of local records; creating the management position of State Registrar; establishing minimum requirements, the term, functions and powers of the position; implementing a security method to the Vital Events System for public health, national security, and others; establish procedures for handling legal documents provided for in the Act, such as certificates and reports of vital events; impose controls to prepare, maintain and disclose the content of vital records and reports in their custody; repeal Act No. 24 of April 22, 1931, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Demographic Registration Act”; repeal Act No. 4 of December 4, 1947; repeal Act No. 370 of May 13

To order the Puerto Rico Examination Boards to disclose statistical data on the results of licensing exams, by area of competence, through the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics; and for other related purposes.

To create the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico” for the purpose of establishing as a principle of public policy free access to data that is originated, kept or received by government agencies and that can be used and reused freely; create the position of the Chief Data Officer and establish their powers and duties; transfer and clarify the responsibilities and duties of the Office of Management and Budget; establish the obligation of government bodies to publish their data public in a machine-readable format (“machine-readable”), through the Puerto Rico Open Data Interconnection Portal; establish the obligation of government agencies to update their official statistical indicators and to publish them through the Puerto Rico Indicator System, in accordance with the rules established by the Chief Data Officer; provide the Institute with the power to regulate the formats in which any government agency will store information and deliver data; provide that the Institute of Statistics will be the only governmental entity with the power to prepare any regulations related to the publication and updating of official statistics and indexes; and to repeal Act No. 69-2005.