The session opens: permits, inventory, and tax reform

On August 17, 2026, Metro publishes what to expect from the new legislative session. The date is in the URL and in the snippet; the page fetch timed out. The body is not filled in. The listed facts remain, and, for magazine length, other rows in this roundup are named by date and outlet.

The ordinary session, according to that coverage, starts today, Monday. Carlos Méndez Núñez says permits and taxes will occupy the session under Governor Jenniffer González Colón and also under the Fiscal Oversight Board. The inventory tax appears with a warning: municipalities depend on that revenue and an alternate source is needed. The Maritime Terrestrial Zone is the permits knot. Those are the confirmed facts. There is no vote count here, and no municipal-revenue amount.

On August 13, the same Metro covered the legislature's priorities: permits, tax reform, the water crisis, and the inventory tax. The PPD, in that note, said Doriel Pagán Crespo should not remain one more minute at the head of the AAA. The PNP in the Senate spoke of investigative resolutions. The PIP called the permits draft very bad and very dangerous. There was support for moving the inventory, without a revenue substitute. On the 17th, Meléndez Ortiz again puts permits and taxes on the session's threshold. Two dates, the same knot.

Caribbean Business, on August 25, recalls that the Planning and Permits Code is a 793-page Senate substitute still without a floor vote. That page count is not in the August 17 snippet. It is named as another note, another date, another outlet. On August 6, Primera Hora covered five nominations sent to the legislature, with the ordinary session on the third Monday of August. The 17th falls on that start. This row does not add those nominees' names; they live in their own note.

Water and the AAA, which August 13 Metro did put among the priorities, do not appear as figures in the August 17 snippet. Cisterns and line items from other notes are not pasted here. Monday's session, in this piece, is permits, inventory, and tax reform, with the ZMT as the knot and with the Board in Carlos Méndez Núñez's phrase. The reader has the URL. The timeout is not covered with memory.

Source: Metro. https://www.metro.pr/noticias/2026/08/17/que-esperar-de-la-nueva-sesion-legislativa/