Governor Jenniffer González Colón signed House Bill 314 into Law 215-2026 on October 29, 2026, converting a measure presented by at-large Representative Ramón Torres Cruz into a statewide requirement: every government agency and department must comply with the island's official Active Shooter Incident Prevention, Action and Mitigation Plan^{[1][2][3][4][5]}. The mandate arrives by amending Law 8-2024, which created the plan for Puerto Rico's public and school facilities but did not require every agency to implement it^[6][7][8]. The new Article 9 sets the clock: agencies have 60 days from the law's approval to adopt or update the regulations, orders, directives and protocols that put the plan into effect^[9][10], and the government must establish agreements with municipalities and private institutions so they adopt the same measures^[11]. The law took effect immediately upon approval^[12]. The measure moved slowly to get there: filed February 7, 2025, given final House approval on April 16, 2026 and final Senate approval on September 3, 2026, before enactment^[13][14][15]. The law's statement of motives grounds the mandate in hard numbers: FBI statistics show U.S. active shooter incidents doubling from 20 in 2016 to 40 in 2020, wounding 126 people and killing 38 over that span, excluding the shooters, and roughly six incidents near Puerto Rico school grounds reported since 2012^[16][17][18]. The Education Department had already announced active shooter workshops for school principals in December 2022^[19]. The near-term test is the 60-day clock. Agencies that had no obligation to run the plan now owe updated protocols on a statutory deadline, and the required agreements extend the same playbook to municipalities and private institutions - the difference between a plan that exists on paper and one the government runs on.