Date: March 7, 2025

To add a new Article 11.05 to Law 85-2018, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Educational Reform Act”, for the purpose of providing for the creation of a so-called “University Alliances Program”, which will have the purpose of authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Education to sign any necessary agreements or collaboration agreements with the University of Puerto Rico, so that the latter, through its students and teachers from the different schools of Education on the campuses of the system, provides mentoring, tutoring and support for students and teaching and non-teaching staff, in tasks related to the care and provision of supplementary services to the student population, in the different schools of the public education system, in order to ensure that remedial aid is obtained for students who are academically lagging behind, provided that such costs are reasonably compared with current prices in the market and that, in effect, they can be provided by the said university institution; repeal Law 47-2019, known as” Public School Student Support Act of the Government of Puerto Rico”; and for other related purposes.

To establish the “Act to Declare a State of Emergency for Child Violence in Puerto Rico”, for the purpose of declaring a state of emergency for child violence, in accordance with the provisions and terms established by this Act; and for other related purposes.

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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known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act”, for the purpose of updating references to laws that have been repealed and replaced by existing legislation; increasing the threshold for approval of contracts by the Board of Directors; and for other related purposes.

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