R. of S. 157

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IEPR
04 March 2026

Date: June 8, 2021

To order the Social Welfare and Aging Affairs; and Life and Family Committees of the Puerto Rico Senate to conduct an investigation into child abuse in Puerto Rico, including, but not limited to: handling complaints of child abuse and the services provided to victims by the Department of the Family, the Department of Health, the Department of Education, the Puerto Rico Police and the Department of Justice; the methodology and collection of child abuse statistics in Puerto Rico used by government agencies such as: the Department of the Family, the Puerto Rico Police, the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics; examine the processes for updating and reliability of statistics and government efforts for the prevention of child abuse.

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