Date: September 30, 2013

To establish as public policy the formulation of continuous and recurrent ten-year education plans, with broad citizen participation, that give direction and link, starting from the decade 2014-2024, the Department of Education, the Puerto Rico Council of Education and other related agencies; to establish mechanisms and structures for broad citizen participation for the formulation and approval of the same; to adopt the initial proposal of thematic axes that emerge from citizen forums, transsectoral dialogues and the Working Table, which will be object of consultation, discussion and citizen deliberation; creating the Transsectoral Commission for the Ten-Year Education Plan (CTPDE), an entity responsible for facilitating citizen consultation and deliberation processes, as well as designing, convening and directing the General Assembly of the Ten-Year Education Plan; providing for the Proclamation and implementation of ten-year plans; allocating budget for the consultation, deliberation and formulation of plans.

To create the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico” for the purpose of establishing as a principle of public policy free access to data that is originated, kept or received by government agencies and that can be used and reused freely; create the position of the Chief Data Officer and establish their powers and duties; transfer and clarify the responsibilities and duties of the Office of Management and Budget; establish the obligation of government bodies to publish their data public in a machine-readable format (“machine-readable”), through the Puerto Rico Open Data Interconnection Portal; establish the obligation of government agencies to update their official statistical indicators and to publish them through the Puerto Rico Indicator System, in accordance with the rules established by the Chief Data Officer; provide the Institute with the power to regulate the formats in which any government agency will store information and deliver data; provide that the Institute of Statistics will be the only governmental entity with the power to prepare any regulations related to the publication and updating of official statistics and indexes; and to repeal Act No. 69-2005.

Date: September 1, 2021

To order the Committee on Women's Affairs of the Senate of Puerto Rico to conduct research and analysis on the stigma, discrimination and invisibility of adult women over sixty years of age in Puerto Rico and how the intersection of ageism and sexism affects their well-being, rights, and opportunities in the emotional, social, family, legal, financial and health spheres, as well as the services available by government agencies and non-profit and private entities.