Date: June 4, 2009

To amend Act No. 209 of August 28, 2003, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act”, as amended, to transfer the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute under the jurisdiction of the Legislative Assembly.

Date: September 3, 2014

For the formulation of a proposal to establish the Puerto Rico Ten-Year Education Plan, which embodies citizen participation as a complementary mechanism for the creation of public policy of the Department of Education of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Council of Education and other public agencies and instruments related to public education in the country; to provide for the mechanisms and structures for the processes of consultation, deliberation, creation and development of the Puerto Rico Ten-Year Education Plan Rico; to establish the Puerto Rico Ten-Year Education Plan Cross-Sectorial Commission, define its composition, functions, obligations and validity; to establish the Advisory Committee for the Puerto Rico Ten-Year Education Plan, define its composition, functions, obligations and validity; and for other purposes.

‍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.