For the University of Puerto Rico's centennial, then-president Antonio García Padilla, and then-Secretary of Transportation and Public Works, Fernando E. Fagundo, unveiled the car tag at the San Juan Botanical Garden's pergola on January 27, 2003.
Then-senator Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez, lamented that even though it was a praiseworthy project it was similar to another scheme from 2012 in which he was involved, whereby a dollar would be donated to the Center for Comprehensive Development and Training for Independent Living for children and youth on the autism spectrum.
Then-senator Juan Dalmau Ramírez also criticized the measure, since, he explained, the UPR was having its budget cut by the Fiscal Management and Oversight Board under PROMESA, even though it generated almost 50% of its own expenses.
"[6] With the support of the University of Puerto Rico's National Student Conference (CEN), which was formed during the 2017 strikes and had held meetings with then-governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares during March,[7] the resolution was approved on July 6, 2017.
[12] On May 17, 2018, then-senator Luis Daniel Muñiz Cortés presented a similar Senate joint resolution by which the Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTOP) would issue motor vehicle registrations bearing designs of the Porta del Sol for 2020, the mundillo industry in Moca for 2021, and from 2022 onwards with the UPR and its eleven campuses.