Explanatory Memorial requested by the Joint Commission for the Continuous Review of the Puerto Rico Criminal Code for the public hearing entitled “Protecting Minors in Digital Environments: Identifying Legal Gaps in the Puerto Rico Criminal Code Regarding Grooming in Preparatory Stages, Cyberbullying as an Autonomous Crime and Sextortion of Minors

Date: April 17, 2015

To add new paragraphs (o) and (p), and to redesignate the current paragraphs (o), (p), (q) and (r), such as paragraphs (q), (r), (s) and (t), respectively, of Article 5 of Law 209? 2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, for the purpose of giving the said governmental entity the responsibility to promote the full inclusion of Puerto Rico in all international statistical programs, through bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements in statistical matters with other organizations, countries or regions, in order to have measurement mechanisms to compare the development of the Island with the rest of the countries of the world; and to temper the provisions of this Act with the provisions of paragraph (j) of Article 4 of Act No. 77 of June 19, 1979, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Administration of Federal Affairs Act”.

To order the Department of Family Affairs, in coordination with the Planning Board, the Institute of Statistics and the Office of Preparedness and Coordination of Public Health Response (OPCRSP) of the Department of Health of the Government of Puerto Rico, to carry out a special census on the vulnerable population of Puerto Rico, as defined in the study prepared by George Washington University after the devastating hurricane Maria, the result of which must be submitted to the Legislative Assembly on or before January 30, 2019; and for others related purposes.