To direct the Senate of Puerto Rico’s Committees on Family, Women, the Elderly, and Persons with Functional Diversity and Disabilities; and on Health to conduct an investigation into the abandonment of elderly individuals in hospitals, the number of cases, the most affected areas or municipalities, the reasons for this, and its impact on the hospital industry, as well as to provide potential alternatives and protocols that should be implemented to eliminate this practice; and for other related purposes.

Date: June 6, 2023R. C. del S. 377: To order the Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce to create a plan for the economic development of the Western Region of Puerto Rico, in order to encourage economic development, attract investors to the area, the rehabilitation of abandoned buildings, attract income to municipalities, increase employment and establish a sustainable economic landscape that improves the quality of life of residents of the Western zone.

To create the “Puerto Rico Tourism Satellite Account System Act” to present fundamental economic information on the impact of tourism in relation to Gross Domestic Product, gross value added, employment, taxation and the direct and indirect value that tourism brings to the economy of Puerto Rico, in order to develop policies aimed at boosting and developing the tourism sector in Puerto Rico.