Date: September 24, 2014

To create the “Freedom of Knowledge Act”, in order to declare the public nature of any study, the product of research funded with public, state or federal funds for the purpose of expanding the public policy of transparency based on access to public and reliable information and statistics; to guarantee access to the general public to any study resulting from research funded with public, state or federal funds; to establish responsibilities, exceptions, penalties and mandatory procedures and delegate the guarantees of this Act to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.

Date: March 5, 2014

To order the Government Commission and the Commission on Socio-Economic Development and Planning of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct an exhaustive investigation into the collection and methodology used by the agencies of the Executive Branch in relation to statistical information of public interest, with special emphasis on the efforts and duties of the Planning Board and the Statistics Institute; to examine the methods of updating and reliability of the statistics collected by governmental entities; and evaluate the resources available for State statistical management and the legal framework that affects it, in order to identify needs, and to know, if necessary, to make any adjustments or amendments that promote the relevance, objectivity and correctness of information based on statistical data; and for other related purposes.

To order the Committee on Social Welfare and Family Affairs of the Senate of Puerto Rico to carry out a comprehensive study on the development, implementation and operation of the concept of Collaborative Housing (Co-housing) in Puerto Rico.