Date: September 7, 2023

To add a new Article 8 and renumber the current Articles 8 and 9 as the new Articles 9 and 10 of Law 184-2012, as amended, known as the “Act for Compulsory Mediation and Preservation of Your Home in Primary Home Foreclosure Processes”, in order to promote better and greater collection and publication of statistical information on cases related to compulsory mediation; and for other related purposes.

‍To order the Puerto Rico Senate's Commission for the Development of Community Initiatives to conduct research into the functions of the “Puerto Rico Substance Use and Abuse Observatory”, attached to the Administration of Mental Health and Addiction Services (ASSMCA), the current scope of its statistical compilation and its use for public policy formulation. This legislative research must include an analysis of the need and viability of reconfiguring this program to establish a “Drug Observatory” as a multidisciplinary entity with the function of integrating, analyzing and disseminating up-to-date information on drug consumption and trafficking in Puerto Rico and related crimes in a way that allows a better understanding of this social phenomenon and contributes to the formulation and implementation of policies, decision-making, design and evaluation of programs and projects.

Date: March 5, 2014

To order the Government Commission and the Commission on Socio-Economic Development and Planning of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct an exhaustive investigation into the collection and methodology used by the agencies of the Executive Branch in relation to statistical information of public interest, with special emphasis on the efforts and duties of the Planning Board and the Statistics Institute; to examine the methods of updating and reliability of the statistics collected by governmental entities; and evaluate the resources available for State statistical management and the legal framework that affects it, in order to identify needs, and to know, if necessary, to make any adjustments or amendments that promote the relevance, objectivity and correctness of information based on statistical data; and for other related purposes.