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House approves a string of bills on special calendar including noise regulation bill
Summary
After the Mother’s Day ceremony, the House completed its special calendar on May 14, approving multiple bills and resolutions on final vote including Proyecto de la Cámara 991 (noise regulation), Proyecto de la Cámara 1141 (police assignment reforms) and other measures; a motion to return the police-assignment bill to committee was defeated.
After the ceremonial portion and a scheduled recess, the House returned to consider a special calendar of legislation on May 14, 2026. The chamber approved a series of bills and resolutions on final vote during a 30‑minute final voting period that concluded in the midafternoon.
Key measures included Proyecto de la Cámara 991, a consolidation of older noise laws that sponsors described as a public‑health and order measure. Representative Moreinoble told the full House the bill creates objective decibel limits (examples cited in the debate: 55 decibels, 50 decibels for tranquility zones, and higher daytime limits) and establishes graduated penalties ($300 first offense, $500 second, third offense escalates to a misdemeanor). The House approved the bill as amended on a voice vote.
Project 1141 (amendments to the Police Law) — presented as a measure to permit regional police academies and to allow the superintendent to consider domicile in initial assignment of academy graduates — drew questions about operational impact. Representative Ferrer Santiago asked whether the superintendent supported the measure and whether the bill’s committee report documented possible effects on transfer requests by long‑serving officers; Ferrer Santiago moved to return the bill to committee to ensure that transfer-impact concerns were recorded. That motion was defeated, and the bill, as amended, was approved on final vote.
Several other bills and resolutions on the special calendar were read with in‑sala amendments and approved, including projects referenced as 1147 and 1166 and amendments to Senate Project 213 (which adds provisions governing certain electronic equipment and directs the Puerto Rico Public Policy and Energy program to issue a report on solar equipment reuse and recycling by Dec. 30, 2026). The chamber approved conference reports and a block of recognitions and motions presented by the floor leadership. The clerk recorded that, as a result of the final vote, the measures on the calendar obtained a majority and were approved.
Notices at the end of the day included a convening of the Ethics Commission at 3:30 p.m.; the House recessed until Monday, May 18, 2026 at 11:00 a.m.
