Date: May 22, 2025 P. of C. 562: To amend Article 2.01 of Chapter 2 of Act No. 122-2017, known as the “New Government of Puerto Rico Act”, and the first paragraph of Article 3 of Act No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act”, for the purpose of including the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute among the entities exempt from the provisions of the above-mentioned Act No. 122 and to express such exclusion in such laws, in order to preserve nature of the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico as an autonomous administrative and fiscally independent entity of the Executive Branch of the Government of Puerto Rico; and make technical corrections.

Date: December 22, 2023

To amend Article 3 of Law 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act” to provide that the Office of the Comptroller shall establish at its discretion the frequency of audits of the accounts and operations of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute.

Date: September 24, 2014

To create the “Freedom of Knowledge Act”, in order to declare the public nature of any study, the product of research funded with public, state or federal funds for the purpose of expanding the public policy of transparency based on access to public and reliable information and statistics; to guarantee access to the general public to any study resulting from research funded with public, state or federal funds; to establish responsibilities, exceptions, penalties and mandatory procedures and delegate the guarantees of this Act to the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics.