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Representative LeBrón Robles urges swift action on femicide bill, cites six deaths this year
Summary
During initial remarks, Representative LeBrón Robles recounted recent femicides and urged the House and the women’s caucus to expedite House Bill 199, a proposal to declare policy and provide protection and reparations for children of femicide victims; she said the bill had not yet been taken up by any committee
Representative LeBrón Robles used her initial five-minute turn on April 7 to press the House to act on what she described as an urgent public-safety and gender-violence crisis and to advance a bill she said the Puerto Rican Independence Party submitted earlier in January.
LeBrón Robles listed six deaths she characterized as femicides that occurred in 2025 and described patterns in those cases: intimate-partner violence, use of firearms and, in several instances,…
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