Date: May 20, 2013

Budget Request from the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics for Fiscal Year 2013-14

Date: January 12, 2011

To amend subparagraphs (f) and (m) of Article 5 of Act No. 209 of August 28, 2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, to provide that as part of the annual report that the Institute must submit to the Legislative Assembly and the Governor, in relation to its efforts during the previous year, it will include specific and detailed information on the progress of updating the Inventory of Statistics of the Government of Puerto Rico; and to keep up to date a reliable system of statistics related to school dropout.

To amend Articles 2, 3, 9, 10 and 36 of Act No. 24 of April 1931, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Demographic Registration Act”, in order to include in the Death Certificate the identification of natural disasters as a contributing factor to death; and to order the Demographic Registration and Vital Statistics Division of the Department of Health to send the report every six months with vital statistics to the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute and for other related purposes.