House approves a slate of measures after reading amendments to House Bill 569

The House of Representatives reconvened in San Juan on April 27, 2026, and approved a series of bills and resolutions following a brief floor process that included the reading of text amendments to House Bill 569.

A presiding lawmaker told members that House Bill 569 had been reported by the Committee on Labor and included textual amendments to be considered on the floor. The Clerk read the line-by-line amendments to the bill (deletions and substitutions by page and line) and concluded the reading with the statement marking the end of the amendment text. After the reading, a lawmaker moved that the amendments be approved and the Chair called for the chamber's consideration; members responded in the affirmative.

The floor then adopted a final voting calendar, read into the record by a parliamentary spokesperson, listing House Bill 569 and a set of other House and Senate measures and two joint resolutions. The Chair opened an electronic voting period of 30 minutes at 3:57 p.m.; the electronic voting closed at 4:13 p.m. The Clerk reported that all measures on the calendar received a majority of votes and were approved.

Earlier in the afternoon, Representative Jorge Giorgi Navarro asked to withdraw House Bill 177 from committee and to remove it from further legislative processing; the Chair authorized that withdrawal. The session also included a block of ceremonial motions — acknowledgments and congratulations to firefighters, students, community figures and other public servants — which the Chair recorded as approved by unanimous consent or without objection.

The House recorded several members as absent or excused for the final roll call. The body recessed and scheduled its next sitting for Thursday, April 30, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Today's proceedings concluded at 4:16 p.m.