Luis Pérez is a New Progressive Party (Partido Nuevo Progresista) member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, representing District 7. Pérez, whose full name is Luis Pérez Ortiz and who is known as “Junior,” has represented the district, based in Bayamón, since 1998. Pérez was re-elected in 2000 and in each general election since; in 2024 Pérez won with about 46 percent of the vote in a four-candidate race.1
Pérez was born in Bayamón on September 5, 1955, and grew up there with four siblings. Pérez attended public schools in Bayamón, graduating from Dr. Agustín Stahl High School, and later took courses in business administration. Pérez worked for more than 12 years in the private sector, including at Belk Lindsey, Almacenes Gonzalo Rivera and Holsum Bakers of Puerto Rico. Pérez joined the Bayamón municipal government in 1985 as a civil defense planning officer, later directed the city’s Tomás Kuilan public transportation terminal, became director of municipal civil defense in 1987, and in 1997 was appointed director of the Bayamón Public Safety Department by Mayor Ramón Luis Rivera.
In the current term Pérez chairs the House Committee on Municipal Affairs, which handles legislation concerning Puerto Rico’s municipalities.
