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(a) This section shall be known as the 'Puerto Rico Cooperative Internships Promotion Act'.(b) For the purposes of this section, the Cooperative Development Administration shall serve as liaison between the University of Puerto Rico Institute of Cooperativism and all government agencies that are part of the Executive and the municipal governments.(c) The Cooperative Development Administration shall establish and promote, through regulations, the necessary mechanism to coordinate the opening of positions to be occupied twice a year by Program participants be it in government agencies related to cooperativism or in any other government agency, any other government dependency, municipal government programs or in intermunicipal consortia created by virtue of the Workforce Investment Act.(d) Those students registered in the Seminar Course Work and Studies in Cooperativism with Supervised Practice (so identified) by the Institute for Cooperativism of the University of Puerto Rico, and who comply with the academic criteria established by such Institution shall benefit from this section.(e) Students selected to work in any government dependency, municipal government program, or

and who comply with the academic criteria established by such Institution shall benefit from this section.(e) Students selected to work in any government dependency, municipal government program, or intermunicipal consortia created by virtue of the Workforce Investment Act shall receive the federal minimum wages, which shall be defrayed by the dependency or municipality to which the students are assigned, provided that the funds are duly identified and budgeted.(f) The Cooperative Development Administration shall draft and approve all the regulations necessary for compliance with the provisions of this section within a term of not more than six (6) months, starting from the approval of this act, and further comply with the provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the 'Uniform Administrative Procedures Act'. History —Aug. 29, 2002, No. 215, §§ 1—6; Sept. 1, 2006, No. 191, §§ 1—3.