P. of S. 1219

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IEPR
17 December 2025

Date: August 11, 2023

To amend Section 10 of Act No. 15 of April 1931, as amended, known as the “Organic Law of the Department of Labor and Human Resources”, for the purpose of ordering the Department of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico to use, in the surveys conducted by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Labor and Human Resources, in the Population Census and in any other survey carried out for these purposes to measure food security, the Scale to Measure Food Security for Puerto Rico designed by the Graduate School of Public Health of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico; add a line to any survey carried out for the purpose of knowing how many women are heads of household; and for other related purposes.

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P. of S. 1219

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