In 2007, Bonilla decided to run for a vacant seat for District 18 in the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico.
The Act created a legislative system comprising two houses: a Senate consisting of 19 members and a House of Representatives with 39 members.
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The evaluation of the proposals was in charge of William F. Willoughby (president of the Executive Council), José de Diego (Speaker of the House, represented by Luis Muñoz Rivera), José S. Quiñones (President of the Supreme Court), and Laurence Grahame.
His daughter, Melinda Romero Donnelly, was an NPP member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico for 8 years, later becoming state senator when she won a special election in 2009 for the vacant seat of former Senator Jorge De Castro Font.
After Marisara Pont Marchese's confirmation was rejected by the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico for the post of Secretary of State, Governor Acevedo turned to Bonilla and nominated him in the summer of 2005 for the position.
The Secretary of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico is the chief clerk of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico responsible of maintaining public records, disbursing salaries, monitoring the acquisition of stationery and supplies, and overseeing other clerks.
Carlos Johnny Méndez, member of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
José Aponte Hernández (born 1958), former Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico