Date: April 12, 2010

To amend paragraph (j) of Article 4 of Act No. 77 of June 19, 1979, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration Act”, in order to grant the Agency the responsibility of promoting the full inclusion of Puerto Rico in all national statistics produced by Federal Government agencies and non-governmental organizations that receive federal funds, in order to have measurement mechanisms to compare the development of the Island with that of the continental United States.

‍To order the Puerto Rico Senate's Commission for the Development of Community Initiatives to conduct research into the functions of the “Puerto Rico Substance Use and Abuse Observatory”, attached to the Administration of Mental Health and Addiction Services (ASSMCA), the current scope of its statistical compilation and its use for public policy formulation. This legislative research must include an analysis of the need and viability of reconfiguring this program to establish a “Drug Observatory” as a multidisciplinary entity with the function of integrating, analyzing and disseminating up-to-date information on drug consumption and trafficking in Puerto Rico and related crimes in a way that allows a better understanding of this social phenomenon and contributes to the formulation and implementation of policies, decision-making, design and evaluation of programs and projects.

Date: January 19, 2016

To order the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Anti-Monopoly Practices, and the Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs, of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to carry out an exhaustive investigation to evaluate the costs, rates and conditions proposed and imposed by shipping companies that offer haulage services for importing food into Puerto Rico.