The Puerto Rico Department of Health has filed two legislative bills to take control of the Puerto Rico Diabetes Center, converting it into a Department of Health office.^[1] The bills put a question onto the record that had been circulating as a proposal. Pediatric endocrinologist Carlos Leyva, interviewed by Jay Fonseca on the WAPA.TV program 'Los Datos Son Los Datos' on Oct 21, opposed the conversion.^[2] Leyva said Health Secretary Víctor Ramos is seeking to take control of the center but does not attend the center's board meetings.^[3] Leyva described a governing board that cannot staff itself. The board is required to have nine members, he said, but recruitment difficulties have kept all positions from being filled.^[4] He said the center has been fighting to stay operational for multiple years.^[5] The account from Leyva and the Department's two bills pull in opposite directions on the same board: one says the panel cannot fill its own seats, the other asks the Legislature to fold the center into a Department office. The bill numbers and the vote that would decide them are not yet in the record.