Senate Bill 1160, which proposed eliminating $4.5 million a year in public funding to conventions and groups coordinator Meet Puerto Rico, was drawn from the Senate session late Tuesday night, the entity’s leadership said Wednesday.
The tourism sector raised a red flag Tuesday over the filing of a Senate Bill late last week that would effectively kill Meet Puerto Rico, the island’s convention and groups coordinator responsible for generating more than $110 million a year for the local economy.
Last Thursday, the Puerto Rico senate approved a substitute bill that consolidated several of the measures that had made the leaders of the telecommunications industry unanimously oppose any possible changes to Law 213, known as the Telecommunications Law.
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