To amend Articles 3, 4, 6 and 8 of Law 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act”, for the purpose of updating references to laws that have been repealed and replaced by existing legislation; increasing the threshold for approval of contracts by the Board of Directors; and for other related purposes.

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To add a new Article 115 and renumber the current Articles 115 and 116 as Articles 116 and 117 respectively, of Act No. 187-2015, as amended, known as the “Interagency Validation Portal Act for the Granting of Incentives for Economic Development of Puerto Rico”, in order to postpone the effectiveness of the Act and to relieve any agency, agency or instrument of the Government of Puerto Rico, municipality or public corporation, that is considered an Issuing-Certifying Agency or Receiving-Granting Agency, of comply with Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 14 to 112 of the Act in everything related to Certification of Compliance, retroactively from November 17, 2015 to January 1, 2018; to provide that any Issuing-Certifying Agency or Receiving-Granting Agency must continue to accept, receive, process, process and evaluate requests for incentives or tax benefits to

Date: October 22, 2014

To amend subparagraphs (a), (b) and (e) of Article 4 of Law 214? 2004, as amended, known as the “Act to Create the Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust” for the purpose of incorporating the Puerto Rico Director of Statistics as a trustee member, and for other related purposes.