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House of Representatives approves a series of resolutions including studies on toll cap and regional socioeconomic reviews
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Summary
The Puerto Rico House of Representatives approved multiple resolutions on Feb. 20, 2025, sending several study and investigative measures to committee and adopting amendments that make the resolutions effective upon approval; votes were taken by voice and tallies were not specified on the record.
The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico approved a set of resolutions on Feb. 20, 2025, including measures to study an annual cap on AutoExpreso user charges and multiple regional socioeconomic investigations.
Lawmakers voted by voice to approve the amended resolutions. The chamber’s calendar included Resolution 72 (study on an annual cap for AutoExpreso charges), Resolution 102 (study on socioeconomic development in the Metro region), Resolution 103, Resolution 104, Resolution 105, Resolution 106, Resolution 107 and Resolution 121. Each was submitted with committee reports and in several cases the text was amended on the floor so the measure would “comenzará a regir inmediatamente después de su aprobación.”
“Se aprueba” and similar confirmations followed floor readings and amendment readings; the chair called for affirmations and the body responded by voice. The record shows approvals by voice vote in each instance; the transcript does not record roll-call tallies or named individual votes for these items.
Votes at a glance (as recorded on the floor):
- Resolution 72 — Directs the Commission on Transportation and Infrastructure to conduct a technical and economic study on the feasibility of implementing an annual cap on amounts imposed on AutoExpreso users. Approved (voice vote) as amended so the resolution takes effect immediately after approval.
- Resolution 102 — Orders a Commission investigation into socioeconomic development matters in San Juan, Guaynabo, Bayamón, Cataño, Carolina and Trujillo Alto and the interaction of government programs in those municipalities. Approved (voice vote) as amended to take effect immediately after approval.
- Resolution 103 — Commission report and amendments were approved; the resolution was adopted (voice vote) as amended to take effect immediately after approval.
- Resolution 104 — Adopted (voice vote) as amended to take effect immediately after approval.
- Resolution 105 — Adopted (voice vote) as amended to take effect immediately after approval.
- Resolution 106 — Adopted (voice vote) as amended; the floor added language about permit reform and the need for a more agile permitting system. Approved as amended to take effect immediately after approval.
- Resolution 107 — Adopted (voice vote) as amended to take effect immediately after approval.
- Resolution 121 — Adopted (voice vote) as amended to take effect immediately after approval.
All approvals on the record were voice votes. Where the transcript records the chair calling for “lo que tenga afirmativa, diga que sí,” the body answered in the affirmative; the record does not include individual yes/no tallies or enumerated roll-call votes for the listed resolutions.
The House also approved several noncontroversial motions in block — congratulatory recognitions and acknowledgments — and authorized co-sponsorship by other delegations on listed motions. Those procedural motions were adopted without recorded roll-call tallies.
