Date: February 24, 2017

To amend Articles 6 (i) and 13 of Act No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act, to provide that the maximum amount to be paid for administrative fines authorized by the Act shall be governed by the provisions on administrative penalties established in Act No. 170 of August 12, 1988, as amended, better known as the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act; and other related purposes.

To amend Articles 8 and 10 of Law No. 85-2017, as amended, known as the “Law Against Harassment and Intimidation or 'Bullying' of the Government of Puerto Rico” or “Alexander Santiago Martínez Act”; to amend paragraph (i) of Article 9.07 of Law No. 85-2018, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Education Reform Act”; add a new paragraph (d); and renumber the current paragraphs (d) to (u) as paragraphs (e) to (v) of Article 5 of Act No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, so that the data obtained and submitted in the annual report on the notification of cases of harassment, including “bullying” and cyberbullying, in public and private schools, higher education institutions and universities, are sent simultaneously by the Secretaries of Education and State to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, for statistical interpretation by subject, so that public policies for the prevention and prohibition of harassment can be uniformly implemented; then submit to Secretariats of the House of Representatives and Senate of Puerto Rico; make grammatical and stylistic corrections; and adapt to current legislation.

Date: January 29, 2016

To establish the obligation of all private schools as a prerequisite for obtaining or renewing their license to operate within the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to submit evidence of having submitted the Statistical Data Form to the Puerto Rico Board of Education, which is submitted annually to private schools in Puerto Rico to be completed by them; establish the obligation to the State Office for Head Start Collaboration (OECHS) of the Office of the Governor of Puerto Rico; require that once they are once both the Public and Private School Profile and the Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) are completed, be sent both to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and to the Secretaries of the House of Representatives and the Senate of Puerto Rico; and establish the obligation of the Department of Education to annually submit a Report to the House of Representatives and the Senate of Puerto Rico from the informatics