Date: March 18, 2024

To amend Article 2; add Article 2A; amend Article 3; add an Article 3A; amend Article 4; add Articles 4A, 4B, 4C, 4D and 4E; amend Article 5; add Articles 5A, 5B and 5C; amend Articles 6, 7, 8 and 9; and add Articles 9A, 9B and 11A to Law 141-2019, as amended, known as the “Transparency and Expedited Procedure for Access to Public Information Act”; and repeal Act 141-2019, as amended, known as the “Transparency and Expedited Procedure for Access to Public Information Act”; and to repeal Act 141-2019 122-2019, known as the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico”, in order to incorporate definitions into the referred to Law 141-2019; reduce exceptions for the denial of public information in the face of confidentiality claims that may be raised by governmental entities; establish that the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics will be the entity responsible for implementing the public policy for access to public information; creating the position and duties of the Coordinator of Access to Public Information of the Government of Puerto Rico; assigning new functions to Information Officers, and that one of these be the head of the entity's statistics unit governmental; shorten the terms for Information Officers to deliver public information requested by citizens; amend the review appeal; impose administrative sanctions; allocate funds; and for other purposes.

To amend Article 5 of Law 97 - 2018, known as the “Bill of Rights of People with Down Syndrome”, in order to impose on the Department of Health the obligation to establish a permanent external clinic, aimed at providing all the necessary and indispensable services for the full care and treatment of people aged zero (0) and older, with the condition of Down Syndrome; to provide for the creation and management of a registry of people with Down Syndrome, in order for the State to maintain statistics officers and create a profile of the cases that exist in Puerto Rico with this condition; and for other related purposes.

Date: June 1, 2022

To order the Department of the Family, the Department of Education, the Mental Health and Counteraddiction Administration, the Department of Health and the Puerto Rico Police to establish, within a period of no more than 60 days, an emergency plan to address the crisis of child abuse and abuse in Puerto Rico, including a continuing education campaign in the media and on the social networks of the agencies; to order the Statistics Institute of Puerto Rico to enter into collaboration agreements with the Department of the Family and the Puerto Rico Police to publish an Annual Child Abuse Profile, within 180 days; to order the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Bureau to call on technology companies and telecommunications providers to take steps to ensure the safety of children in cyberspace, provide children with access to toll-free helplines, use their platforms to promote campaigns to prevent child abuse and abuse; order the Department of Housing to start educational campaigns and offer workshops on guidance on child abuse and maltreatment for all residents and participants in their programs; and for other purposes.