To amend Article 13 of Law 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, for the purpose of ordering all governmental entities of the Government of Puerto Rico, municipalities and public corporations to make all their financial information available to citizens on the official website of the Institute of Statistics, in compliance with the public policy of transparency and openness of information; validity and; for other related purposes.

To amend Articles 2, 3, 9, 10 and 36 of Act No. 24 of April 1931, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Demographic Registration Act”, in order to include in the Death Certificate the identification of natural disasters as a contributing factor to death; and to order the Demographic Registration and Vital Statistics Division of the Department of Health to send the report every six months with vital statistics to the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute and for other related purposes.

Date: May 22, 2025 P. of C. 562: To amend Article 2.01 of Chapter 2 of Act No. 122-2017, known as the “New Government of Puerto Rico Act”, and the first paragraph of Article 3 of Act No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act”, for the purpose of including the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute among the entities exempt from the provisions of the above-mentioned Act No. 122 and to express such exclusion in such laws, in order to preserve nature of the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico as an autonomous administrative and fiscally independent entity of the Executive Branch of the Government of Puerto Rico; and make technical corrections.