P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 9132
For any fiscal year ending during the effective term of this subchapter, the budget of the Legislative Assembly and each one of its attached entities, to wit, the Office of the Comptroller, the Ombudsman, and the Civil Rights Commission shall be equal to its respective budget for the previous fiscal year, adjusted by the reduction percentage or global increase in the General Budget of Expenses chargeable to the General Fund, stated in the budget recommended by the Governor. Said adjustment percentage shall be calculated excluding the proposed appropriations to service the constitutional debt of the General Budget of Expenses chargeable to the General Fund, both on the basis of the previous year and on the recommended amount for the fiscal year under consideration. Likewise, said adjustment shall exclude from the basis for comparison the budgets of the Judicial Branch, the Legislative Assembly, the Office of the Comptroller, the Ombudsman, the Civil Rights Commission, the State Election Commission, the Office of Government Ethics, the Office of the Election Comptroller, and the Special Independent Prosecutor’s Panel.
For the fiscal year immediately beginning upon the expiration of the effective term of this subchapter, the recommendation and approval of the budget of each entity affected by this Section shall once again be governed by the regularly applicable legislation. No debt, obligation, or pledge for future appropriations or payments whatsoever shall be issued for any gap existing between the budget actually appropriated during the effectiveness of this Act, and what would have been the budget resulting from the application of formulas or other rules established in the laws that would otherwise have governed the drawing up of the budget.
The Legislative Assembly and its attached entities, in the exercise of the powers conferred to them by the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, may adopt any of the spending reduction and/or control measures provided in this subchapter as may be necessary to address any budget deficit projected during the effective term of this Act.
History —June 17, 2014, No. 66, § 25.