P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 921h
The participating students shall be selected by means of a drawing. The Office of Youth Affairs shall establish a system of drawing to be implemented using the facilities of the Puerto Rico Lottery. For that purpose, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in conjunction with the Director, to establish the most effective plan taking into consideration the needs of the Lottery and the time within which to conclude the procedures to select the students who shall constitute the groups which will travel at the proper time during each academic year, subject to the financial resources available. It will likewise select those students who will be substituted for those participants who, for whatever reason, will not be able to travel.
The Executive Director shall establish regulations and execute agreements as necessary and required under the procedure to select participating students as herein provided. No grade point average requirements shall be established for regular disabled students registered with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Integral Educational Services for Persons with Disabilities who wish to participate in the Student Travel Program.
The Executive Director of the Office of Youth Affairs may allot from the agency’s annual 2.5 million dollar budget, the amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) a year so as to provide an incentive for young people pursuing studies at public and private university institutions, which shall also include nonprofit organizations incorporated with the Department of State constituted by young people who participate in educational, cultural, civic, youth cooperative movement-related, and/or business establishment-related activities outside of Puerto Rico. These young people shall be allotted a contributive amount to cover lodging, land transportation, and air transportation expenses.
The Executive Director shall have the authority and the discretion to design up to a maximum of two (2) procedures for students who fail to meet the established grade point average requirements but who have shown a reasonable improvement in their academic performance, coupled with having engaged in civic, community, beautification or cooperative movement-related works and activities, as well as having made contributions to nonprofit entities, or other acts of an equal or similar nature, so as to provide these students with the opportunity to participate and to enjoy the benefits of the Student Travel Program. All students who have been granted a scholarship at private institutions by reason of their grade point average or their outstanding performance in any one subject, sport or art, or by reason of their financial status, shall also be able to participate in the Program.
History —June 23, 1985, No. 32, p. 113, § 9; Dec. 16, 1993, No. 127, § 8; Aug. 16, 2001, No. 105, § 3; Sept. 16, 2004, No. 348, § 1; Aug. 26, 2005, No. 86, § 4; Aug. 9, 2008, No. 223, § 5; Jan. 4, 2010, No. 5, § 4.