25th Senate of Puerto Rico

25th Senate of Puerto Rico
In session
January 2, 2013 – January 1, 2017
Leadership
President	Eduardo Bhatia
President pro tem	José Luis Dalmau
Majority Leader	Aníbal José Torres
Majority Whip	Rossana López
Minority Leaders	Larry Seilhamer María de Lourdes Santiago
Minority Whip	Carmelo Ríos
Non-officers
Secretary	Tania Barbarossa
Sergeant-at-Arms	Luis A. Ramos Rivera
Structure
Seats	27 voting members
Parties represented	18 PPD      8 PNP      1 PIP
Length of term	4 years
Elections
Last election	November 6, 2012
Next election	November 8, 2016
Legislature
17th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
Lower house
29th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
Sessions
1st January 14, 2013 – June 30, 2013 2nd August 19, 2013 – November 19, 2013 3rd January 13, 2014 – June 30, 2014 4th August 18, 2014 – November 18, 2014 5th January 12, 2015 – June 30, 2015 6th August 17, 2015 – November 17, 2015 7th January 11, 2016 – June 30, 2016 8th August 15, 2016 – November 15, 2016
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The 25th Senate of Puerto Rico is the upper house of the 17th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico and will meet from January 2, 2013, to January 1, 2017. All members were elected in the General Elections of 2012. The Senate has a majority of members from the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).^[1][2][3] The body is counterparted by the 29th House of Representatives of Puerto Rico in the lower house.

Leadership

      PPD        PNP        PIP

Office	Senator	District	Party
President	Eduardo Bhatia	At-large	PPD
President pro tempore	José Luis Dalmau	District VII Humacao	PPD
Majority Leader	Aníbal José Torres	At-large	PPD
Majority Whip	Rossana López León	At-large	PPD
Minority Leader	Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez	At-large	PNP
Minority Whip	Carmelo Ríos	District II Bayamón	PNP
Minority Leader	Maria de Lourdes Santiago	At-large	PIP

Members

      PPD        PNP        PIP

District	Name	Political party
At-large	Angel Rosa	PPD
At-large	Aníbal José Torres	PPD
At-large	Antonio Fas Alzamora	PPD
At-large	Cirilo Tirado	PPD
At-large	Eduardo Bhatia	PPD
At-large	Rossana López León	PPD
District I San Juan	José Nadal Power	PPD
District I San Juan	Ramón Luis Nieves	PPD
District IV Mayagüez–Aguadilla	Gilberto Rodríguez	PPD
District IV Mayagüez–Aguadilla	María Teresa González	PPD
District V Ponce	Martín Vargas Morales	PPD
District V Ponce	Ramón Ruiz	PPD
District VI Guayama	Ángel M. Rodríguez Otero	PPD
District VI Guayama	Miguel A. Pereira	PPD
District VII Humacao	Jorge Suárez	PPD
District VII Humacao	José Luis Dalmau	PPD
District VIII Carolina	Luis Daniel Rivera	PPD
District VIII Carolina	Pedro A. Rodríguez	PPD
At-large	Itzamar Peña	PNP
At-large	Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez	PNP
At-large	Margarita Nolasco	PNP
At-large	Thomas Rivera Schatz	PNP
District II Bayamón	Carmelo Ríos	PNP
District II Bayamón	Migdalia Padilla	PNP
District III Arecibo	Ángel Martínez Santiago	PNP
District III Arecibo	José Joito Pérez	PNP
At-large	Maria de Lourdes Santiago	PIP

Non-officers

      PPD

Post	Name	Political party
Secretary	Tania Barbarossa[4]	PPD
Serjeant-at-Arms	Luis A. Ramos Rivera[lower-alpha 1]	PPD

Commissions

Name	Chair	Ranking
Agriculture	to be determined	to be determined
Banking, Consumer Affairs, and Public Corporations	to be determined	to be determined
Civil Legal	to be determined	to be determined
Commerce and Cooperativism	to be determined	to be determined
Criminal Justice	to be determined	to be determined
Government	to be determined	to be determined
Economic Development and Planning	to be determined	to be determined
Education and Family Matters	to be determined	to be determined
Federal Relations and Informatics	to be determined	to be determined
Health	to be determined	to be determined
Internal Affairs	to be determined	to be determined
Labor, Veterans' Affairs, and Human Resources	to be determined	to be determined
Mountain	to be determined	to be determined
Municipal Matters	to be determined	to be determined
Natural and Environmental Resources	to be determined	to be determined
Public Safety and Judiciary Matters	to be determined	to be determined
Recreation and Sports	to be determined	to be determined
Rules and Calendar	to be determined	to be determined
Social Welfare	to be determined	to be determined
Tourism and Culture	to be determined	to be determined
Treasury	to be determined	to be determined
Urbanism and Infrastructure	to be determined	to be determined
Western Development	to be determined	to be determined
Women's Affairs	to be determined	to be determined

Notes

1. Senate (2013) "Sometida a votación la elección del Sargento de Armas, la misma es aprobada y el señor Presidente, proclama al señor Luis A. Ramos Rivera, como Sargento de Armas del Senado del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico."^[5]

References

1. "El Senado será dominado por populares". El Nuevo Día (in Spanish). 7 November 2012. Archived from the original on 7 April 2013.
2. "SENADORES POR DISTRITO RESULTADOS POR DISTRITO SENATORIAL". Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 29 December 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
3. "SENADORES POR ACUMULACIÓN RESULTADOS ISLA". Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de Puerto Rico (in Spanish). 29 December 2012. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
4. "Cronología de los Secretarios del Senado" (in Spanish). Senate of Puerto Rico. Retrieved August 11, 2013.
5. "Sesión Inaugural, Actas del Senado de Puerto Rico, Decimoséptima Asamblea Legislativa, Primera Sesion Ordinaria" (PDF) (in Spanish). Senate of Puerto Rico. January 14, 2013. Retrieved August 11, 2013.