To create the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico” for the purpose of establishing as a principle of public policy free access to data that is originated, kept or received by government agencies and that can be used and reused freely; create the position of the Chief Data Officer and establish their powers and duties; transfer and clarify the responsibilities and duties of the Office of Management and Budget; establish the obligation of government bodies to publish their data public in a machine-readable format (“machine-readable”), through the Puerto Rico Open Data Interconnection Portal; establish the obligation of government agencies to update their official statistical indicators and to publish them through the Puerto Rico Indicator System, in accordance with the rules established by the Chief Data Officer; provide the Institute with the power to regulate the formats in which any government agency will store information and deliver data; provide that the Institute of Statistics will be the only governmental entity with the power to prepare any regulations related to the publication and updating of official statistics and indexes; and to repeal Act No. 69-2005.
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Date: October 17, 2023
To order the Development Commissions of the Southeast Region; and the Special Committee for the Eradication of Poverty of the Senate of Puerto Rico to conduct research on the impact of poverty on child development in the municipalities of Aibonito; Arroyo; Barranquitas; Cayey; Cidra; Coamo; Comerío; Corozal; Guayama; Juana Díaz; Naranjito; Orocovis; Salinas; Santa Isabel and Villalba, in order to identify strategies to address the socio-economic reality experienced by thousands of children; and to evaluate the results of programs and initiatives established by the Government to combat and eradicate poverty.
Date: July 17, 2025R. de la C. 138: To order the Committee on Women's Affairs of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico to conduct research on any matter related to the full development of women in society, aimed at guaranteeing and expanding opportunities for women to have access to personal, occupational and professional training and training processes; promote concrete actions aimed at significantly improving the living conditions of women in their communities; achieving true equality, by promote, disseminate and execute a public policy of true gender equity; the legal and constitutional rights of women and their situation or status in society in legal, economic, political and social aspects; discrimination against women or possible violation of their legal and constitutional rights; femicides; the needs of single mothers and their families, of young women who, for reasons of violence, premature pregnancy or economic circumstances, among others, choose to abandon their studies, of women who because of abuse or divorce require a secure roof, professionals who require government support for the care of their sons and daughters and access to employment opportunities and business activities and those who require adequate access to sexual and reproductive health, prenatal, childbirth and post-partum services; and for other related purposes.
To order the Government Committee of the Senate of Puerto Rico to carry out a comprehensive investigation into the management of the Government of Puerto Rico and its instrumentalities in the preparation of the 2020 Census, evaluate the results of the tests carried out, and evaluate the initiatives taken by all its instruments to proactively address the challenges presented to us by the dramatic decline in population that occurred after the passage of Hurricane María and in the management and use of census information.
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