(C) one member selected by the majority 
leader of the House of Representatives; 
(D) one member selected by the minority 
leader of the House of Representatives; 
(E) one member selected by the majority 
leader of the Senate; 
(F) one member selected by the minority 
leader of the Senate; 
(G) the Resident Commissioner of Puerto 
Rico; 
(H) with the consent of the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives and majority leader 
of the Senate, a member from the Department 
of Justice; and 
(I) with the consent of the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives and majority leader 
of the Senate, a member from the Department 
of the Interior. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN MEMBERS.— 
Members selected under subparagraphs (C) through 
(F) of paragraph (1) shall represent a State or dis-
trict in a State that, as determined by the most re-
cently publicly available data from the Bureau of the 
Census, represents one of the 10 States with the 
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largest population of people who identified on the 
most recent Census as Puerto Rican. 
(c) DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS.—The Commission— 
(1) shall meet periodically with the delegates in 
Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, at the re-
quest of a majority of the delegates, with each meet-
ing required to include at least one delegate from 
each of the self-determination options; 
(2) shall have the authority to— 
(A) study; 
(B) make findings; 
(C) develop recommendations regarding 
self-determination options on constitutional 
issues and policies related to— 
(i) culture; 
(ii) language; 
(iii) judicial and public education sys-
tems; 
(iv) taxes; and 
(v) United States citizenship; and 
(D) provide technical assistance and con-
stitutional advice to the delegates during the 
Puerto Rico status convention; 
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(3) may hold public hearings in connection with 
any aspects of the convention at the request of the 
delegates or on its own; and 
(4) may receive testimony. 
(d) REPORTS.—The Commission shall— 
(1) not less than quarterly, provide status re-
ports, findings, and studies to the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate; 
(2) not less than once every 12 months, submit 
a status report to the House of Representatives and 
the Senate; and 
(3) make reports submitted under paragraph 
(2) available to the general public in widely acces-
sible formats in English and Spanish on the same 
day that such reports are submitted under para-
graph (2). 
SEC. 5. PUERTO RICO STATUS REFERENDUM; EDUCATION 
CAMPAIGN. 
(a) STRUCTURE AND PROCESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—A referendum vote by the 
people of Puerto Rico— 
(A) may be conducted in a ranked-choice 
voting format in which voters rank choices by 
preference on their ballots without a limit on 
the number of choices ranked; 
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(B) may consist of choices each composed 
of a self-determination definition and accom-
panying transition plan as presented by the del-
egates under section 3; and 
(C) may include more than one choice with 
the same self-determination definition, but a 
distinct accompanying transition plan as pre-
sented by the delegates under section 3. 
(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated the Puerto 
Rico State Commission on Elections, $2,500,000 to 
carry out a referendum vote under this subsection. 
(b) EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Delegates shall carry out an 
educational campaign through traditional paid media 
related to the referendum under subsection (a). 
(2) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There is authorized to be appropriated the Puerto 
Rico State Commission on Elections, $5,000,000 to 
carry out an educational campaign under this sub-
section. The Federal Election Commission shall en-
sure that funds made available under this paragraph 
are divided equally among each self-determination 
option represented on the referendum held under 
this Act. 
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(3) QUARTERLY
CAMPAIGN
REPORTS.—Each 
delegates shall submit quarterly campaign reports of 
the educational campaigns to the Federal Election 
Commission. 
SEC. 6. CONGRESSIONAL DELIBERATION AND ENACTING 
RESOLUTION. 
If the referendum under this Act is approved by the 
people of Puerto Rico, Congress shall approve a joint reso-
lution to ratify the preferred self-determination option ap-
proved in that referendum vote. If the Congress adjourns 
sine die before acting on the self-determination option, the 
Puerto Rico status convention created under this Act may 
meet again and send or resend a self-determination op-
tions to the following Congress. 
SEC. 7. JOINT RESOLUTION. 
(a) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘joint resolution’’ means 
a joint resolution that is introduced within the 10-day pe-
riod beginning on the date when the results of the ref-
erendum are certified by Puerto Rico’s Commission on 
Elections. 
(b) REFERRAL.—A resolution described in subsection 
(a) that is introduced in the House of Representatives 
shall be referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
and in the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources. 
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