José Luis Dalmau submits the first eight bills to the Senate

The anticipated president of the senate, José Luis Dalmau Santiago, was the first bill of the four-year period to present the measure aimed at drafting the Comprehensive Health Plan of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

In all, he presented the first eight accounts of the four-year period.

One of them, Senate Bill 2, states that the Health Insurance Administration (ASES) is the sole payer, without the intervention of an insurer, of health reform patients who receive services from the Administration of Medical Services (ASEM), the cardiovascular center of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Children’s Hospital, University Hospital for Adults, University Hospital Dr. Ramón Ruiz Arnau de Bayamón and the Puerto Rico Medical Emergency Corps. Therefore, the ASES is obliged to pay directly.

Regarding Senate Law 1, of 120 pages, it establishes that the new public health policy would create the central administration of Puerto Rico’s comprehensive health plan, a public corporation that establishes and establishes the comprehensive health plan of Puerto Rico, the Board of Pharmacology. Puerto Rico Comprehensive Health Plan Fund.

Senate Law 4, also of Dalmau Santiago, would require certain local residents to have an automatic defibrillator, such as private schools. Law 141-2008, which regulates the availability of these devices in certain locations, establishes availability criteria based on the capacity of stadiums and sports centers, venues for private shows and entertainment, private universities, conference rooms, industries, factories, shopping centers. .

With the new proposed law, all of these facilities, regardless of their capacity, should have at least one automated defibrillator.

Senate Law 6 recommends the establishment of the Bureau of Markets and Competition, as a government agency, and the elimination of the Department of Justice’s Office of Monopolistic Affairs.

“The aim of the Agency is to ensure, maintain and promote the smooth functioning, transparency and existence of effective competition in all industries, businesses and productive sectors, for the benefit of consumers and users.“, Read the explanation.

The new entity would “be completely independent from the government,” the bill states, and “will ensure the uniform application of competition laws, regulations and statutes in Puerto Rico.”

Senate Law 8 creates the 21st Century Math and Science Teacher Development Act. As part of the measure, the tuition fee waiver program would be created for science, mathematics and engineering students.