Faced with the rise of skateboards, better known as “scooters,” traveling on public roads in the metropolitan area, the Senate passed a measure to investigate the proliferation of shops and itinerant businesses engaged in the rental of these vehicles.
The Resolution of the Senate 86, of the authorship of the senator by the District of San Juan, Guaynabo and Good Waters, Nitza Morán, orders to the Commission of Innovation, Telecommunications, Urbanism and Infrastructure of the High Body to realize a research for the aforementioned purposes, especially in tourist areas, although these may not be used to travel on paved highways, state roads or other public roads.
“This has become a method of transportation, not only for the tourist, but also for the residents. A new style of business, especially for the capital city. Puerto Rico as well as other countries have faced problems with the “skateboards.” The big challenge is to temper the spaces for the use of these transports. The aim is not to ban the use of these avant-garde vehicles, “said Senator Morán.
On the other hand, the spokesman of the Popular Democratic Party, Javier Aponte Dalmau, denounced the situation that the residents of the islands municipality of Vieques and Culebra go through when not having sufficient boats, on the part of the Authority of Maritime Transport ( ATM) to transport fuel to the islands.
“We are reviewing that the only freight ferry that the ATM has to bring food to the islands municipality broke down and it will take months to address the situation. We see again the government’s obstinacy to privatize and release its responsibility in dealing with the alluvium situation, it happens again.We are tired from this bank to make the complaint and I make the same claim again.Governor, you cannot relinquish responsibility and transportation maritime in the municipal islands “, denounced Aponte Dalmau.
The legislator suggested using the federal funds “CARES” intended for the development of infrastructure on the island, for the repair of boats. “These boats are the roads for these citizens,” he insisted.
Meanwhile, the senator of the Puerto Rican Independentist Party, María de Lourdes Santiago, made a formal request for the people of Vieque and Culebrense to participate in the selection of the Executive Director of the agency.
On the other hand, the Senate received the partial report of Senate Resolution 42, which is in charge of the Special Commission for Legislative Monitoring of the Department of Education’s Special Education Program to Investigate , monitor and continuously monitor the performance of the program in order to assess compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
The Resolution of the authorship of the senatorial president, José Luis Dalmau Santiago and of the pro-independence senator, Maria De Lourdes Santiago, cites in its partial report that “this Commission recommends to the Senate to order the Department of Education prepare a schedule that includes the holding of meetings of Programming and Placement Committees (duly constituted) for the review of all Individualized Educational Programs of students enrolled in the Special Education program.It is imperative that you know the current situation of the needs of these students.
For her part, the senator of God of Lourdes Santiago, expressed during her turn on the measure that “the Department of Education was not crossed by the head that these students should be vaccinated before starting face-to-face classes” . In turn, the senator of the New Progressive Party, Migdalia Padilla stated that “we continue to make the same mistakes with this population. The answers that were given were non-specific and very general. The individualized plan of each has been violated. one of those boys and girls. “
In addition, the Substitute was approved in Senate Bill 176, which amends the “Public Corporation Act for the Supervision and Insurance of Cooperatives of Puerto Rico,” in order to require the Corporation to publish through its website and the international information network, known as the Internet, and keep accessible to the public the determinations of legal inquiries or opinions, complaints, allegations or grievances submitted to its consideration, including any natural or legal person, as well such as cooperatives, their governing bodies, officers or other officials related to services.
The Senate will resume homework until next Thursday, March 18 at 1:00 p.m.