To create the “Department of Economic Development and Trade Reorganization Plan Implementation Act of 2018”; amend Articles 4, 5, repeal Articles 6, 7, 11 and 12, renumber Article 8 as 6, renumber Articles 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 as Articles 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the Department of Economic Development and Trade Reorganization Plan 4-1994; amend Article 5 of Act 5 of Act 4 M. 22 of July 24, 1985, as amended, known as the “Economic Development Bank Act for Puerto Rico”...

Date: July 14, 2023

To add a new Article 519 to Act No. 4 of June 23, 1971, as amended, known as the “Puerto Rico Controlled Substances Act”, for the purpose of maintaining a record and statistics of persons intervened and processed for the possession and/or distribution of controlled substances specifying the age, neighborhood, profession, education and marital status of the person intervened or processed and the controlled substance or substances and their respective quantity or quantities for which they were intervened, processed or being prosecuted criminally to a person.

Explanatory Memorial requested by the Joint Commission for the Continuous Review of the Puerto Rico Criminal Code for the public hearing entitled “Protecting Minors in Digital Environments: Identifying Legal Gaps in the Puerto Rico Criminal Code Regarding Grooming in Preparatory Stages, Cyberbullying as an Autonomous Crime and Sextortion of Minors