Date: June 5, 2013

To order the Commission on Social Welfare and for the Eradication of Poverty, of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the collection and methodology used by the agencies of the Executive Branch, in particular, the Department of Health and the Department of the Family, in relation to child abuse statistics in Puerto Rico; to examine the methods of updating and reliability of the statistics collected; to examine the development of reliable processes of child abuse complaints; identify resources and/or alternatives to establish and/or improve a uniform and coordinated system for collecting statistics on child abuse; and for other related purposes.

To amend Article 5 of Law 3-2017, 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 guarantee the autonomy of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute in compliance with Law 209-2003, as amended.

To order the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute, within a strict compliance period of three (3) months, to take appropriate steps to request that a question about deafness and hearing loss be included in the 2030 Census and the Puerto Rico Community Survey; and to establish other complementary provisions.