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: April 5, 2022
To amend articles 1.3, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 of Law 120-2014, known as the “Incentives Act for the Generation and Retention of Jobs in SMEs”, in order to expand the categories of Eligible Expansion SMEs and Eligible SMEs with Net Operating Losses to those companies that have started operations after January 1, 2014 and to temper the partial reimbursement of salaries to the new state minimum wage established by Law 47-2021; add a new article 2.7 to Law 120-2014, known as the “Incentives Act for the Generation and Retention of Jobs in SMEs”, for the purpose of requiring an Annual Performance Report on the provisions of the Act; to amend Section 12-B of Law No. 72 of June 21, 1956, known as the Puerto Rico Employment Security Act, as amended, to clarify the source of funding for partial wage reimbursement; and for other related purposes.
Date: April 14, 2023
To establish the “Immigrant Bill of Rights”; and for other related purposes.
Date: September 23, 2014
To create a State Register of Services for Older Adults; establish who will be registered in it, their duties and obligations; provide for the availability of information and notification to the community; empower the Office of the Attorney for the Elderly to adopt the necessary regulations; allocate funds necessary for the implementation of the Registry; and for other purposes.
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