Open Forum

On January 23, 2025, the President of the Senate, the Honorable Thomas Rivera Schatz presented Senate Bill 273, referred to the Committee on Tousim, Natural Environmental Rosources, to repeal Law Numeber 89, of June 21, 1955 and as amended to add a new subsections (v) and remunerate the current subsection (v) to (w) as subsections (w) to (x) to Article 4 of Law Number 4 of June 22, 1994, as amended, for the purposes of transferring the functions of conserving, safeguarding, restoring and studying movable and inmovable property, assets and functions art custodians that were under the custody of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to the Department of Economic Development and Commerce for other related purposes. This Senate Bill puts our historical heritage in danger. The Puerto Rican Institute of Culture is a government corporation that enjoy its own autonomy and each government administration tries to take away its powers, which weakers it more and more. The intention of transferring the Institute of Culture is to repeal the Law by which it was created in 1955 and convert the Institute into a department of the Department of Economic Development and Commerce.

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