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.
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Date: February 19, 2015
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 Statistics Institute as a member of the Intergovernmental Committee on the Criminal Justice Information System; and for other necessary and related purposes.
Date: March 3, 2025
To create the “Law for the Recovery of Domestic Animals” for the purpose of establishing a uniform procedure that facilitates and legitimizes the recovery of lost and found domestic animals; add a new paragraph (8) to Article 6 of Law No. 36 of May 30, 1984, as amended, for the purpose of creating a website managed by the State Animal Control Office (OECA), attached to the Department of Health, under the Environmental Health Program, where photographs of animals will be published for the purpose of complying with provided for in this Act and for other related purposes.
Date: December 22, 2023
To amend Article 3 of Law 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Statistics Institute Act” to provide that the Office of the Comptroller shall establish at its discretion the frequency of audits of the accounts and operations of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute.
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