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FULL CROP INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CARP BENEFICIARIES – HOUSE

The House of Representatives, voting 197-0, has approved on third and final reading House Bill 6686, which seeks to provide quick financial assistance to affected agrarian reform beneficiaries in the event of natural calamities to make their losses more bearable. The bill grants full insurance coverage to all qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries of the Comprehensive […]

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LA UNION DECLARED AS PH TOURIST DESTINATION – HOUSE

The House of Representatives approved on third and final reading and transmitted to the Senate for concurrence House Bill 6683, which declares the province of La Union a tourist destination and “Surfing Capital of the North.” Rep. Vini Nola Ortega (Party-list, ABONO), the bill’s principal author, said the proposal aims not only to showcase the […]

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Leaving Children Unattended in Motor Vehicles Prohibited – HOUSE

The House of Representatives unanimously approved on third and final reading House Bill 6570 which seeks to prohibit leaving children eight years old and below unattended in motor vehicles. The bill provides that no child younger than the developmental age of eight years shall be left unattended inside a motor vehicle without supervision by a […]