Date: May 12, 2025 P. of C. 561: To amend Article 3 of Law No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act”, and Article 5 of Law No. 3-2017, as amended, known as the “Act to Address the Economic, Fiscal and Budgetary Crisis to Ensure the Functioning of the Government of Puerto Rico”, in order to preserve and guarantee the administrative and fiscal autonomy of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute; update certain legal provisions and make some technical corrections.

Date: May 25, 2011

Budget request for fiscal year 2011-12 before the Puerto Rico House of Representatives.

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.