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.

Date: February 29, 2012

To order the Committee on Education and Non-Profit Organizations and Cooperatives of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives to carry out a study on the proliferation of institutions that offer degrees on an accelerated and remote basis, in order to verify that they comply with applicable laws and regulations, so as to ensure excellent education for their participants.

Date: May 3, 2021

To order the Commissions on Social Welfare and Old Age Affairs; and on Education, Tourism and Culture to conduct an exhaustive investigation into compliance with Laws 136-1996, 80-2002, 181-2014, 78-2018, 173-2018, 174-2018, 174-2018 and 266-2018, by all public agencies of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They should also investigate whether the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute, in accordance with its enabling law, Act 209-2003, collects and analyzes data related to the number of people in Puerto Rico who are trained in sign languages.