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: January 19, 2016

To order the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Anti-Monopoly Practices, and the Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to carry out an exhaustive investigation to evaluate the costs, rates and conditions proposed and imposed by shipping companies that offer haulage services for importing food into Puerto Rico.

To direct the Department of Health to conduct, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and the Graduate School of Public Health of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, a prevalence study to determine the statistical incidence of autism spectrum disorders in Puerto Rico.