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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5519 
To improve the collection and publication of statistics relating to Puerto 
Rico, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 8, 2021 
Miss GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N (for herself, Mr. SOTO, and Mr. PALAZZO) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Re-
sources, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs, and Over-
sight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 
the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To improve the collection and publication of statistics 
relating to Puerto Rico, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Puerto Rico Data Col-
lection Equality Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PLAN TO INCLUDE PUERTO RICO IN FEDERAL STA-
TISTICAL PROGRAMS. 
(a) PLAN.—The head of the Interagency Council on 
Statistical Policy shall develop and implement a plan to 
collect and publish statistics regarding Puerto Rico in the 
same manner as statistics are collected and reported by 
Federal agencies for the several States. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The plan developed under sub-
section (a) shall include, at a minimum, the following in-
formation: 
(1) An action plan for bringing Puerto Rico 
fully into the programs and surveys of data collec-
tion managed by the Bureau of the Census, along 
with sponsoring agencies where appropriate, on the 
same terms as States. 
(2) An action plan for integrating Puerto Rico 
into the full set of the National Income and Product 
Accounts produced by the Bureau of Economic 
Analysis, including in the quarterly calculation of 
real gross domestic product and personal income by 
State and including such calculations in estimates of 
the gross domestic product of the United States as 
a whole. 
(3) An action plan to phase out the Electronic 
Export Information requirements located in Part 30 
of title 15, Federal Code of Regulations, for ship-
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ments between the United States and Puerto Rico, 
which shall identify alternative methods of devel-
oping gross domestic product for Puerto Rico with-
out using Electronic Export Information. 
(4) An action plan to fully integrate statistics 
collected for Puerto Rico in national figures, includ-
ing with respect to any calculation or estimate of the 
total unemployment rate, total inflation rate, and 
total resident and total population size of the United 
States. 
(5) Any other initiatives that each of the prin-
cipal statistical agencies that sit on the Interagency 
Council on Statistical Policy will pursue to ensure 
they are collecting and publishing statistics regard-
ing Puerto Rico on the same terms as States. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than two years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and every two years there-
after, the head of the Interagency Council on Statistical 
Policy shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report which shall include— 
(1) a description of the plan developed under 
subsection (a); and 
(2) information on the implementation of such 
plan, including specific timelines and cost estimates. 
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(d) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEES 
DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate con-
gressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Natural Resources and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
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