To order the Department of the Family, the Department of Education, the Mental Health and Counteraddiction Administration, the Department of Health and the Puerto Rico Police to establish, within a period of no more than 60 days, an emergency plan to address the crisis of child abuse and abuse in Puerto Rico, including a continuing education campaign in the media and on the social networks of the agencies; to order the Statistics Institute of Puerto Rico to enter into collaboration agreements with the Department of the Family and the Puerto Rico Police to publish an Annual Child Abuse Profile, within 180 days; to order the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Bureau to call on technology companies and telecommunications providers to take steps to ensure the safety of children in cyberspace, provide children with access to toll-free helplines, use their platforms to promote campaigns to prevent child abuse and abuse; order the Department of Housing to start educational campaigns and offer workshops on guidance on child abuse and maltreatment for all residents and participants in their programs; and for other purposes.
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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 amend Articles 8 and 10 of Law No. 85-2017, as amended, known as the “Law Against Harassment and Intimidation or 'Bullying' of the Government of Puerto Rico” or “Alexander Santiago Martínez Act”; to amend paragraph (i) of Article 9.07 of Law No. 85-2018, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Education Reform Act”; add a new paragraph (d); and renumber the current paragraphs (d) to (u) as paragraphs (e) to (v) of Article 5 of Act No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, so that the data obtained and submitted in the annual report on the notification of cases of harassment, including “bullying” and cyberbullying, in public and private schools, higher education institutions and universities, are sent simultaneously by the Secretaries of Education and State to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics, for statistical interpretation by subject, so that public policies for the prevention and prohibition of harassment can be uniformly implemented; then submit to Secretariats of the House of Representatives and Senate of Puerto Rico; make grammatical and stylistic corrections; and adapt to current legislation.
To add an Article 9.1 to Act No. 121 of July 12, 1986, as amended, known as the “Act to Establish Public Policy and the Bill of Rights for the Elderly in Puerto Rico”, for the purpose of authorizing a financial institution to withhold the disbursement of funds from an account belonging to an elderly person when it has knowledge or suspicion that such person is a victim of financial exploitation, and to require that they report the withholding due to knowledge or suspicion of such a case.
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