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: September 7, 2021
To amend Article 10 of Law No. 81 of March 14, 1912, as amended, known as the “Organic Law of the Department of Health”; to amend Article 6 and 13 of Law No. 209-2003, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics Act”, in order to establish guarantees for the management and delivery of vital statistics, between the Department of Health and the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics; create a special provision for the management and delivery of vital statistics between the Department of Health and the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute when there is a declaration of emergency, and for other related purposes.
Review of the Legal Framework Regarding Plea Agreements in Puerto Rico Criminal Proceedings to examine Rule 72 of Criminal Procedure, special penal laws, and the institutional norms and practices that regulate this mechanism.
Date: June 1, 2009
Budget request for fiscal year 2009-10 before the Puerto Rico Senate.
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