Date: June 28, 2021

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

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To amend Article 6 of Law 209-2003, as amended, to provide that the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico may request, accept and receive donations, and set and collect reasonable fees for obtaining information and studies that originate, analyze or disclose by the Institute; that the sums collected by this concept will be entered into a special account called “Special Fund of the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico”, which may be used to defray the operating and operating expenses of the Institute and the statistical activities that the Institute determines; to amend Article 8 of the above-mentioned Act No. 209-2003, to establish that the Board of Directors of the Institute has the power to approve the acquisition of equipment, materials and services whose value exceeds one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars; and to amend Article 11 of the aforementioned Law 209-2003...

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.