2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive Appendix (§§ 1 — 7A) › VIII - Department of Labor and Human Resources (§ 7A) › § XII. - Transitory measures and internal adjustments

The Governor is empowered to take the necessary transitory measures for the implementation of this Plan without interrupting the normal work schedule of the bodies affected thereby. He may likewise, carry out any additional internal reorganizations that are necessary for the proper operation of the Department, except that he shall not suppress any bodies created by law. Those internal reorganizations which require legislation, or amendments to standing statutes, shall be presented before the Legislature for its consideration and approval.
During the year following the effective date of this Plan, the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources shall submit to the Governor an Internal Reorganization Plan which shall take into consideration the integration, as far as it may be feasible and functionally effective, of technical and managerial services common to all Department components, such as auditing, planning, financial studies, administrative services, legal counsel and services, computerized information processing systems and others.
The Secretary shall also consider in said Internal Reorganization Plan, the consolidation, integration or fusion of operational programs and components directed towards achieving similar purposes; among them, the Right to Employment Administration, the Volunteer Corps Program, the Program for the Development of Employment Opportunities and Training under Act No. 82 of June 3, 1980 and Act No. 52 of August 9, 1991. The objective of this restructuring shall be to eliminate unnecessary duplication resources, and achieve greater efficiency.
Within the term of fifteen (15) months from the effective date of this Reorganization Plan, the Governor must present a report before both Legislative Bodies regarding its implementation, together with the organizational layout of the Department of Labor and Human Resources and its component units. The report shall be filed with the Secretaries of both Bodies and referred to the Joint Legislative Committee on Executive Reorganization Plans, which, within ten (10) days of its presentation, must announce public hearings to analyze and submit its findings, conclusions and recommendations to the Legislative Bodies. The report shall include a breakdown of the measures established to increase the efficiency and productivity of the bodies which make up the entity and shall specify, in detail, the mechanisms already adopted or to be adopted [sic]. The Legislature reserves the faculty to partially or totally amend or reject the reorganization effected or proposed within the terms and through the procedures established in the Executive Reorganization Act of 1993.
Pursuant to the determinations arrived at through this process, the Secretary shall promote the filing of bills leading to the modification of the organic statutes of the agencies which compose the Department of Labor and Human Resources, in order to adjust them to the realities and requirements of its programmatic mission.
History —Renumbered as § XIV on June 10, 2000, No. 97, § 16.