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The department is an executive department of the Government of Puerto Rico. It was created in 1931 but only gained formal recognition when the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico was approved in 1952. Its first secretary was Prudencio Rivera. The incumbent is Carlos Saavedra Gutiérrez.
The Puerto Rico Office for Socioeconomic and Community Development (Spanish: Oficina para el Desarrollo Socioeconómico y Comunitario de Puerto Rico (ODSEC)) is a government agency of Puerto Rico that manages projects to improve and develop "Special Communities of Puerto Rico", (Spanish: Comunidades Especiales de Puerto Rico). The agency works ...
Secretaría del Trabajo y Recursos Humanos: Carlos Rivera Santiago [26] [27] PNP: 9 June 2020 – 31 December 2021 [28] Gabriel Maldonado González [29] PNP: 9 January 2022 – Present Secretary of Transportation and Public Works Secretaría de Transportación y Obras Públicas: Eileen Vélez Vega [30] PNP: 2 January 2021 – Present
On December 28, 2016, Saavedra was appointed Puerto Rico Secretary of Labor and Human Resources by then Governor-elect Ricardo Rosselló. [6] On February 11, 2017, Saavedra was confirmed by the Senate of Puerto Rico. [7] He is the youngest person in Puerto Rican history to lead the Puerto Rico Department of Labor.
Article IV of the Constitution of Puerto Rico vests the executive power on the Governor. [1] The Governor has a duty to enforce state laws, to convene the Legislative Assembly, the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Legislative Assembly, to appoint government officers, to appoint Justices, and to grant pardons.
In the spring of 2024, FOMB sent two letters to the Governor of Puerto Rico and the legislature threatening to overturn a solar net energy metering law, known as Act 10. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Act 10 was unanimously passed by the legislature in 2023, and signed into law by Governor Pierluisi in January 2024, and it extended net energy metering for new ...
The Office was formerly known as the "Bureau of the Budget", was created by Law 213 of May 12, 1942, during the administration of Governor Rexford Guy Tugwell, who was part of the brain trust of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and who was appointed as the last non-native Puerto Rican governor by Roosevelt.
The Puerto Rico Ombudsman (In Spanish also Procurador(a) del Ciudadano) is a government position created by statute in 1977 during the administration of Governor Carlos Romero Barceló to provide citizens with an office that could receive and investigate complaints regarding the proper functioning of government agencies and the level of service to the public.