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The House of Representatives approved on second reading House Bill 7354, seeking the establishment of evacuation centers in every city and municipality. Speaker Martin Romualdez is the principal author of the bill, along with TINGOG Party-list Representatives Yedda Marie Romualdez and Jude Acidre. According to Romualdez, the traditional practice of using public schools as default […]
The House Committee on Human Rights chaired by Manila Representative Bienvenido Abante Jr. approved House Bill (HB) 77 or the “Human Rights Defenders’ Protection Act.” The bill provides for rights and guarantees to fully safeguard the efforts and activities of human rights defenders (HRD) in promoting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights. The bill seeks to […]
On the motion of Antipolo City Representative Romeo Acop, the House Committee on Health chaired by Batanes Representative Criaco Gato, Jr. moved to ask the House leadership for deliberations on House Bills (HBs) 1282 and 6123 be jointly undertaken by the Committee on Health and the Committee on Agriculture and Food. Both bills have implications […]
The House Committee on Population and Family Relations chaired by Isabela Representative Ian Paul Dy approved in principle House Bills 78, 1021, 1593, 2593, 3843, 3885, 4957 and 4998, which seek to reinstitute divorce as an alternative mode for dissolving marriages and strengthen the civil effects of church annulment. Negros Occidental Representative Juliet Marie de […]
The House Committee on Dangerous Drugs chaired by Surigao del Norte Representative Ace Barbers approved House Bill No. 90 which would institute the magna carta of benefits for the officers and personnel of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Under the proposed magna carta, PDEA workers will be provided with acceptable living and working conditions, […]
AGRI Party-list Rep. Wilbert T. Lee urged the Insurance Commission (IC) to scrap the implementation of its IC Circular Letter No. 2022-34 which seeks to increase the minimum catastrophe (earthquake, typhoon and flood) insurance premium rates, especially because the country’s inflation hit a 14-year high of 8.7% this January. The hike was supposed to be […]
The House Committee on Constitutional Amendments held its sixth public consultation on proposals to reform the 1987 Constitution at the City Convention Center in San Jose Del Monte City in Bulacan. More than 700 participants to the public consultation from the academe, research groups, student groups, business groups, legal groups, civil society organizations, people’s organizations […]
The House of Representatives has approved at the committee level the proposed Comprehensive Renal Replacement Therapy Act which provides sets of policies on kidney transplantation, peritoneal dialysis, and hemodialysis, including making these therapies affordable to all seniors and indigents and expands the PhilHealth transplant benefit package. It was Senior Citizen Party-list Representative Rodolfo Ordanes who […]
The House Committee on Public Information chaired by Agusan del Norte Representative Jose Aquino II approved the substitute bill requiring broadcast media to air for free public service announcements on important public issues. Aquino hopes that the measure would finally be enacted during the 19th Congress, to educate the public on critical issues, generate awareness […]
The House of Representatives, through the Speaker’s Disaster Relief and Rehabilitation Initiative, extended $100,000 financial assistance as humanitarian aid to thousands of earthquake victims in Turkey, among the first country-responders in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan).Speaker Martin Romualdez said he was sincerely grateful to Turkey for helping Leyte, and many parts […]