Puerto Rico Data Collection Equality Act

Puerto Rico Data Collection Equality Act

This bill addresses the collection and publication of statistics relating to Puerto Rico.

Specifically, the bill requires the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy to develop and implement a plan to collect and publish statistics regarding Puerto Rico in the same manner as federal agencies collect and report statistics for the states.

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 258 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 258

  To improve the collection and publication of statistics relating to 
                  Puerto Rico, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 10, 2023

Miss Gonzalez-Colon (for herself and Mr. Soto) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in 
   addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Oversight and 
   Accountability, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
  Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To improve the collection and publication of statistics relating to 
                  Puerto Rico, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Puerto Rico Data Collection Equality 
Act''.

SEC. 2. PLAN TO INCLUDE PUERTO RICO IN FEDERAL STATISTICAL PROGRAMS.

    (a) Plan.--The head of the Interagency Council on Statistical 
Policy shall develop and implement a plan to collect and publish 
statistics regarding Puerto Rico in the same manner as statistics are 
collected and reported by Federal agencies for the several States.
    (b) Elements.--The plan developed under subsection (a) shall 
include, at a minimum, the following information:
            (1) An action plan for bringing Puerto Rico fully into the 
        programs and surveys of data collection managed by the Bureau 
        of the Census, along with sponsoring agencies where 
        appropriate, on the same terms as States.
            (2) An action plan for integrating Puerto Rico into the 
        full set of the National Income and Product Accounts produced 
        by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, including in the quarterly 
        calculation of real gross domestic product and personal income 
        by State and including such calculations in estimates of the 
        gross domestic product of the United States as a whole.
            (3) An action plan to phase out the Electronic Export 
        Information requirements located in Part 30 of title 15, 
        Federal Code of Regulations, for shipments between the United 
        States and Puerto Rico, which shall identify alternative 
        methods of developing gross domestic product for Puerto Rico 
        without using Electronic Export Information.
            (4) An action plan to fully integrate statistics collected 
        for Puerto Rico in national figures, including with respect to 
        any calculation or estimate of the total unemployment rate, 
        total inflation rate, and total resident and total population 
        size of the United States.
            (5) Any other initiatives that each of the principal 
        statistical agencies that sit on the Interagency Council on 
        Statistical Policy will pursue to ensure they are collecting 
        and publishing statistics regarding Puerto Rico on the same 
        terms as States.
    (c) Report.--Not later than two years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every two years thereafter, the head of the 
Interagency Council on Statistical Policy shall submit to the 
appropriate congressional committees a report which shall include--
            (1) a description of the plan developed under subsection 
        (a); and
            (2) information on the implementation of such plan, 
        including specific timelines and cost estimates.
    (d) Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on 
        Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the 
        Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
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