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House committee advances bill to exempt Puerto Rico firefighters' rank system from HR mobility law after no quorum; referendum to be recorded
Summary
The House Commission on Public Safety, Science and Technology held a public final-consideration session on Proyecto de la C. 2185 to exempt the Puerto Rico Firefighters' rank system from parts of Law 8-2017; no quorum was present, so members agreed to record a referendum and prepare certification for signature.
The House Commission on Public Safety, Science and Technology opened a public final-consideration session June 24 to consider Proyecto de la C. 2185, a bill to amend Article 3.02 of Law 20 of 2017 to state that the rank system of the Puerto Rico Firefighters will be exempt from the application of Law 8-2017 on human-resources mobility, recruitment, transfer evaluation and access.
Commission President Luis R. Ortiz Lugo called the meeting to order at 4:04 p.m. in the Mareda Mareda Luis Arceal hearing room and said the session's purpose was to allow the committee to finalize amendments and publicly recommend approval or defeat to the full House of Representatives. Ortiz Lugo said the committee would not debate the secondary document at length at this forum, noting floor debate would occur if the measure reached the chamber's calendar of special orders.
Robsan Lf3pez, technical staff for the commission, reported for the record that the committee circulated the call for consideration to all members earlier that afternoon and proceeded to read the full text of the circulated measure. Lf3pez told the chair that no amendments to Proyecto de la C. 2185 had been received.
Lf3pez then informed the chair the committee lacked the quorum required to proceed with in-room voting. Facing the absence of a quorum, Ortiz Lugo said the commission would proceed to take a referendum on the measure. He instructed staff to prepare, as soon as possible, a certification of the public final-consideration session and the approved text in the form in which it was adopted so he could sign it and the secretary could receive the committee's positive report.
Ortiz Lugo declared the commission's work on Proyecto de la C. 2185 concluded for the day at 4:07 p.m. The transcript records no formal roll-call vote in the chamber; the committee recorded a referendum and directed staff to prepare certification and the approved text for submission.
