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Representative LeBrón Robles urges swift action on femicide bill, cites six deaths this year
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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, perpetrators who subsequently died by suicide. She recited particulars from the record, including dates and locations, and emphasized the impact on children left behind. She said the group submitted House Bill 199 “para crear la ley de protección y reparación en favor de los hijos e hijas de las víctimas de feminicidio.” LeBrón Robles said the bill “a la fecha de hoy, el mismo no ha sido atendido por ninguna de las comisiones,” and she asked colleagues and the chamber’s women’s caucus to prioritize the measure.
In the public remarks she asked Licenciada Astrid Piñero Vázquez to take up the matter and exhorted the full chamber to “unirse a este reclamo urgente de justicia para todas las mujeres.” The representative framed the proposal as a policy to guarantee attention, protection and comprehensive reparations to children of femicide victims; she said the bill’s text remained pending committee consideration.
The exchange occurred during the initial-turn portion of the session; no committee action on House Bill 199 was recorded during the April 7 proceedings. The representative’s statement incorporated statistics from the Observatory for Gender Equality cited in her remarks and named specific cases to illustrate the pattern she described.
No formal motion or vote on House Bill 199 occurred in the session transcript; the bill is, according to the floor remarks, introduced but not yet scheduled for committee consideration.
