To establish the official recognition of Puerto Rican Sign Language (LSP) as the natural language of the Deaf community in Puerto Rico, to establish as public policy the guarantee of inclusion, diversity, and respect for the linguistic rights of all individuals, to mandate a census aimed at collecting statistical information on the Deaf community in Puerto Rico, and for other related purposes.

To establish the Public Policy of the Government of Puerto Rico regarding Albinism and Hermansky‐Pudlak Syndrome, providing that direct access will be established to providers and medical specialists, as well as those medications, treatments, therapies and tests scientifically validated as effective and recommended to diagnose and treat the condition, without the need for referral, authorization or pre-authorization of the plan; order the Department of Health to create and exercise public policy, establishing a Registry of people suffering from disease for the purpose of keeping official statistics and creating a profile of cases that exist in Puerto Rico; and for other related purposes.

Date: February 24, 2017

To amend Article 5 of Law 143-2014, “Protocol Act to Ensure Effective Communication Between the Security Components of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Criminal Justice Information System”, to include the Executive Director of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics as a member of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Criminal Justice Information System; and for other necessary and related purposes.