Date: June 7, 2012

To amend Article 5 of Law No. 209 of August 28, 2003, as amended, known as the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act, to empower the Institute to develop continuing education initiatives to promote knowledge in the field of data collection and statistics systems, and the public policy established in said Act, and to coordinate this initiative with other public and private institutions, including universities in and outside Puerto Rico, the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Comptroller, the Federation and Association of Mayors, and for other purposes.

To create the “Protocol Act for the Determination of the Cause and Manner of Deaths Related to Natural Disasters or Catastrophic Events”, for the purpose of adopting a protocol for determining the cause and manner of death in cases where environmental factors related to a natural disaster or a catastrophic event contribute to the death of a person; to provide for mechanisms for collecting information on deaths related to natural disasters or catastrophic events; for the creation of a Committee Interagency for Official Disclosure of Information on Statistical Data on Deaths Related to Natural Disasters or Catastrophic Events; and for other related purposes.

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Date: September 30, 2013

To establish as public policy the formulation of continuous and recurrent ten-year education plans, with broad citizen participation, that give direction and link, starting from the decade 2014-2024, the Department of Education, the Puerto Rico Council of Education and other related agencies; to establish mechanisms and structures for broad citizen participation for the formulation and approval of the same; to adopt the initial proposal of thematic axes that emerge from citizen forums, transsectoral dialogues and the Working Table, which will be object of consultation, discussion and citizen deliberation; creating the Transsectoral Commission for the Ten-Year Education Plan (CTPDE), an entity responsible for facilitating citizen consultation and deliberation processes, as well as designing, convening and directing the General Assembly of the Ten-Year Education Plan; providing for the Proclamation and implementation of ten-year plans; allocating budget for the consultation, deliberation and formulation of plans.