Date: December 11, 2013

To order the Labor Affairs and Public Service Retirement Systems Committees and the Federal and International Affairs and Veterans Affairs Committees of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct a thorough investigation into the impact that an increase in the minimum wage would have on Puerto Rico.

To order the Committee on Economic Development, Planning, Telecommunications, Public-Private Partnerships and Energy of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico to conduct continuous research on all matters related to economic priorities; planning, telecommunications; Public-Private Partnerships, energy, exchange and commercial competition at local, interstate or with other jurisdictions outside the United States of America; monopoly in its various expressions; technology and biotechnology; the economy of knowledge; strategic infrastructure projects that tend to economic development; and those issues and situations of industry, commerce, telecommunications, public-private alliances, energy and the economy in general.

To add a new Article 20 of Act No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act, for the purpose of providing by law the Academies and Workshops Program of the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico; establishing a certification system for continuing education as a requirement for occupying and remaining in a position or position, or offering external consulting or advice, with the responsibility of collaborating or collecting data or developing statistical products in the statistical units of the agencies governmental; correct a technical error in paragraph (i) of Article 5 of the said Act; renumber subsequent articles; and for other purposes.