Date: March 7, 2025

To amend Article 12.01, and add a new Article 12.14, to Chapter XII of Law 85-2018, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Educational Reform Act”, in order to provide that, through the Occupational and Technical Education Program of the Department of Education, schools specialized in developing programs aimed at promoting the transfer of technology to bring scientific and technological discoveries of students to public use, through commercialization, and the protection of property intellectual, which seeks to obtain patents and/or registration of service marks; add a new Section 2100.04 to Law 60-2019, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Incentive Code”, for the purpose of creating a so-called “Support Program for Schools Specialized in the Promotion of Technology Transfer and Product Marketing”, which will serve as a source of funding for the development, research and marketing of products generated by students of the mentioned above educational centers; amend articles 3, 4 and 26 of Law 214-2004, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust Act”, with the purpose of conferring on the said Trust, as well as the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, the responsibility for supporting the development, research and marketing of the products generated by the students of the said schools; and for other related purposes.

To order the Integrated Development Commission of the Western Region (Commission) of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico to carry out a comprehensive study on the living conditions of older people after the onslaught of hurricanes Irma and María; particularly of older people who reside in the western area of Puerto Rico and who are not under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Family.

To amend Articles 2, 3, 9, 10 and 36 of Act No. 24 of April 1931, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Demographic Registration Act”, in order to include in the Death Certificate the identification of natural disasters as a contributing factor to death; and to order the Demographic Registration and Vital Statistics Division of the Department of Health to send the report every six months with vital statistics to the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute and for other related purposes.