Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions
Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability
§ 2192. Right of Puerto Rico to determine its future political status
Statutory text
Nothing in this chapter shall be interpreted to restrict Puerto Rico’s right to determine its future political status, including by conducting the plebiscite as authorized by Public Law 113–76.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act
Pub. L. 114–187 title IV § 402 · 130 Stat. 549
Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 2192
(Pub. L. 114–187, title IV, § 402, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 586.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 114–187, title IV, § 402, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 586.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SEC. 402. RIGHT OF PUERTO RICO TO DETERMINE ITS FUTURE POLITICAL STATUS. Nothing in this Act shall be interpreted to restrict Puerto Rico’s right to determine its future political status, including by conducting the plebiscite as authorized by Public Law 113–76.
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Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 114–187, , 130 Stat. 549, known as the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act and also as PROMESA, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2101 of this title and Tables.
Public Law 113–76, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 113–76, , 128 Stat. 5, known as the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2014. Provisions relating to appropriations for a plebiscite on Puerto Rico’s future political status appear at 128 Stat. 61. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.