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.

Date: April 5, 2022

To amend articles 1.3, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4 of Law 120-2014, known as the “Incentives Act for the Generation and Retention of Jobs in SMEs”, in order to expand the categories of Eligible Expansion SMEs and Eligible SMEs with Net Operating Losses to those companies that have started operations after January 1, 2014 and to temper the partial reimbursement of salaries to the new state minimum wage established by Law 47-2021; add a new article 2.7 to Law 120-2014, known as the “Incentives Act for the Generation and Retention of Jobs in SMEs”, for the purpose of requiring an Annual Performance Report on the provisions of the Act; to amend Section 12-B of Law No. 72 of June 21, 1956, known as the Puerto Rico Employment Security Act, as amended, to clarify the source of funding for partial wage reimbursement; and for other related purposes.

Date: December 13, 2021

To order the Department of the Family, the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute and the Puerto Rico Police Bureau to provide all available statistics on the incidence of child abuse and exploitation in Puerto Rico from March 1, 2020, the month in which the closure and curfew began due to COVID-19, until March 31, 2021; provide the plan of action to address and combat child abuse and exploitation; and for other related purposes.