Date: June 5, 2013

To order the Commission on Social Welfare and for the Eradication of Poverty, of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the collection and methodology used by the agencies of the Executive Branch, in particular, the Department of Health and the Department of the Family, in relation to child abuse statistics in Puerto Rico; to examine the methods of updating and reliability of the statistics collected; to examine the development of reliable processes of child abuse complaints; identify resources and/or alternatives to establish and/or improve a uniform and coordinated system for collecting statistics on child abuse; and for other related purposes.

Date: September 13, 2023

To add an Article 11 to Act No. 81 of March 14, 1912, as amended, so that the Puerto Rico Department of Health provides, free of charge and publicly, information on the execution of public and private hospital institutions; and for other purposes.

To add an Article 9.1 to Act No. 121 of July 12, 1986, as amended, known as the “Act to Establish Public Policy and the Bill of Rights for the Elderly in Puerto Rico”, for the purpose of authorizing a financial institution to withhold the disbursement of funds from an account belonging to an elderly person when it has knowledge or suspicion that such person is a victim of financial exploitation, and to require that they report the withholding due to knowledge or suspicion of such a case.