By The Star Staff
Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia has signed into law Senate Bill (SB) 207 allowing teaching facilitators in the Department of Education to have the same benefits and rights as regular teachers and teaching support personnel.
Under the new law, which goes into force immediately, teaching facilitators, who have functions based on providing academic assistance to teachers, must comply with the schedule of seven and a half hours of work per day and will accumulate two days and a half of paid vacation per month.
The governor also enacted SB 419 so that judges who preside over hearings for the issuance of restraining orders write brief determinations of fact and conclusions of law on which they base their decisions so that the parties involved are informed. The bill amends the Law for the Prevention and Intervention of Domestic Violence (Law 54) and the Law Against Stalking in Puerto Rico.
Pierluisi also signed SB 1199, a law that paves the way for a more efficient and updated arbitration process; SB 1307, which introduces the Federal Lien Registration Act to update Puerto Rican law governing commercial transactions and eliminate the need for duplicate registrations; and Senate Joint Resolution 403, which orders the Land Authority to cede and transfer to the direct descendants of the Batey de la Central Coloso attachés the property titles where their families are located.
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