Date: April 4, 2022

Response to Senate Request for Information 202/033: The Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics presents the following information regarding the Puerto Rico Senate information request 2022 033 submitted by Senator Rosa Vélez, approved on March 22, 2022.

Date: February 12, 2025

To amend paragraph (f) of Act No. 209 of August 28, 2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, so that all agencies, corporations and instruments of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are required to send within sixty (60) days to the Institute any publication of statistical reports they produce, in order to be incorporated into the Puerto Rico Statistics Inventory; and for other related purposes.

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.