‍To order the Puerto Rico Senate's Commission for the Development of Community Initiatives to conduct research into the functions of the “Puerto Rico Substance Use and Abuse Observatory”, attached to the Administration of Mental Health and Addiction Services (ASSMCA), the current scope of its statistical compilation and its use for public policy formulation. This legislative research must include an analysis of the need and viability of reconfiguring this program to establish a “Drug Observatory” as a multidisciplinary entity with the function of integrating, analyzing and disseminating up-to-date information on drug consumption and trafficking in Puerto Rico and related crimes in a way that allows a better understanding of this social phenomenon and contributes to the formulation and implementation of policies, decision-making, design and evaluation of programs and projects.

Date: June 4, 2009

To create a permanent commission called the Commission for Municipal Quality of Life Indices, attached to the Legislative Assembly, which will be responsible for establishing, measuring, calibrating and publishing every two years a quality of life index for each municipality in Puerto Rico.

Para establecer el reconocimiento oficial de la Lengua de Señas Puertorriqueña (LSP) como la lengua natural de la comunidad sorda en Puerto Rico, establecer como política pública la garantía a la inclusión, la diversidad y el respeto a los derechos lingüísticos de todas las personas, mandatar un censo dirigido a recopilar información estadística sobre la comunidad sorda en Puerto Rico, y para otros fines relacionados.