Date: June 5, 2015

To amend Article 5 of Act No. 209 of 2003, as amended, which created the Institute of Statistics of Puerto Rico, to establish that it is the duty of the Institute of Statistics to provide technical assistance to the University of Puerto Rico in the preparation of the “Puerto Rico Human Development Report”.

To create the “Open Data Act of the Government of Puerto Rico” for the purpose of establishing as a principle of public policy free access to data that is originated, kept or received by government agencies and that can be used and reused freely; create the position of the Chief Data Officer and establish their powers and duties; transfer and clarify the responsibilities and duties of the Office of Management and Budget; establish the obligation of government bodies to publish their data public in a machine-readable format (“machine-readable”), through the Puerto Rico Open Data Interconnection Portal; establish the obligation of government agencies to update their official statistical indicators and to publish them through the Puerto Rico Indicator System, in accordance with the rules established by the Chief Data Officer; provide the Institute with the power to regulate the formats in which any government agency will store information and deliver data; provide that the Institute of Statistics will be the only governmental entity with the power to prepare any regulations related to the publication and updating of official statistics and indexes; and to repeal Act No. 69-2005.

To amend Article 115, Law 187-2015, as amended, known as the “Interagency Validation Portal Act for the Granting of Incentives for the Economic Development of Puerto Rico”, for the purpose of modifying and extending the postponement of the effectiveness of the Act; relieving any agency, agency or instrument of the Government of Puerto Rico, municipality or public corporation, that is considered an Issuing-Certifying Agency or Receiver-Granting Agency, to comply with Articles 6 to 10 and Articles 14 to 112 of the Act in everything anything related to the Certification of Compliance, retroactively from November 17, 2015 to January 1, 2019...