Date: March 7, 2025

To amend Article 12.01, and add a new Article 12.14, to Chapter XII of Law 85-2018, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Educational Reform Act”, in order to provide that, through the Occupational and Technical Education Program of the Department of Education, schools specialized in developing programs aimed at promoting the transfer of technology to bring scientific and technological discoveries of students to public use, through commercialization, and the protection of property intellectual, which seeks to obtain patents and/or registration of service marks; add a new Section 2100.04 to Law 60-2019, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Incentive Code”, for the purpose of creating a so-called “Support Program for Schools Specialized in the Promotion of Technology Transfer and Product Marketing”, which will serve as a source of funding for the development, research and marketing of products generated by students of the mentioned above educational centers; amend articles 3, 4 and 26 of Law 214-2004, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust Act”, with the purpose of conferring on the said Trust, as well as the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, the responsibility for supporting the development, research and marketing of the products generated by the students of the said schools; and for other related purposes.

To amend Art. 143 of the Civil Code of Puerto Rico to insert in its paragraph (2) a limitation on the establishment of the obligation to provide food for ascendants.

To order the Integrated Development Commission of the Western Region of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives to carry out a comprehensive study on street food trucks in Western Puerto Rico, which must include an analysis of the state and municipal regulations that currently apply to this type of business and the feasibility of standardizing the matter in a single statute.