Date: May 20, 2013

Budget Request from the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics for Fiscal Year 2013-14

To amend Articles 3, 10, 12 and 13 of Law No. 20-2012, as amended, known as the “Act to Encourage the Export of Services” in order to include medical tourism services and telemedicine facilities as part of the services eligible under the Act; to eliminate bureaucratic restrictions and requirements that limit the granting of tax incentives to applicants for these, in order to promote greater participation of those who wish to invest to export their services outside the Island, in order to promote economic development of Puerto Rico; and for other related purposes.

Date: November 20, 2013

To add a new Article 3.6, renumber the current Articles 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10 and 3.11, such as Articles 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12, respectively, add a new subparagraph (5) to paragraph (C) of the re-enumerated Article 3.8 of Act No. 54 of August 15, 1989, as amended, known as the “Act for the Prevention and Intervention against Domestic Violence”, in order to establish that every person convicted by the provisions of this mandate, must have a mandatory program to complete reeducation and retraining for to enable their rehabilitation for gender-based violence, before the consummation of their sentence; to extend the above-mentioned requirement to condition access to the privilege of parole on the fact that the person convicted of this type of abuse has completed the mandatory program created by virtue of this statute; and for other related purposes.