Date: May 19, 2008
Budget request for fiscal year 2008-09 before the Puerto Rico Senate.

Date: May 19, 2008
Budget request for fiscal year 2008-09 before the Puerto Rico Senate.

To create the "Act for the Registry of Persons with Hearing Impairments in Puerto Rico," for the purpose of establishing an official registry that collects and maintains statistical information on persons with hearing impairments in Puerto Rico; to provide for its administration and objectives; to establish guidelines for its implementation; and for other related purposes.
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.
To amend Article 7 of Law 246-2011, as amended, known as the “Child Safety, Welfare and Protection Act”, to establish an interdisciplinary working group to evaluate minors suspected of domestic abuse, which will be activated when a situation where a situation is identified or reported where a minor with any trauma, injury or condition that appears to be not accidental is identified or reported; to expand the scope of action, duties and functions of the Death Review Panel of the Department of Family; and for other related purposes.P. of C. 850: To amend Act No. 246-2011, as amended, known as the “Child Safety, Welfare and Protection Act”, to add Articles 78 and 79, to establish diversion programs for the purpose of re-educating and retraining first offenders who engage in abusive or negligent conduct against minors, and to order the Department of the Family to prepare