Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri on Saturday mentioned the higher chamber was anticipated to approve key precedence measures of the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) every week earlier than the nineteenth Congress would sine die adjourn.
The precedence measures are the Trabaho Para sa Bayan Act, the Regional Specialty Centers Act, and the Maharlika Investment Fund Act, which has been licensed pressing by Malacañang.
Apart from the mentioned precedence payments, the Estate Tax Amnesty Act can also be set to be authorized on third studying, in accordance with the Senate President.
“With the Senate being composed of twenty-four republics, we have to hear everyone’s perspectives out, toward the betterment of our measures. Thankfully, we have all developed a great working relationship with one another, and we have been able to give due time for everyone to carefully debate and deliberate on all the measures that go through our committees and the plenary,” Zubiri mentioned.
“And now that our Senate committees have really gone into full swing, and been churning out more measures for plenary deliberations, then we can look forward to an even more productive Second Regular Session,” the Senate President.
Under the Legislative Calendar, the First Regular Session of the nineteenth Congress, which started on July 25, 2022, would adjourn sine die on June 2, 2023.
Zubiri mentioned that if 4 of the precedence payments had been signed into regulation, the First Regular Session would have produced seven precedence measures of the administration, together with the SIM Registration, the Act Postponing the Barangay Elections, and the AFP Fixed Term Law, which had already been handed into regulation.
“I am proud to say that the Senate has performed very well for the First Regular Session, which typically tends to have a slow start in any Congress, because we are essentially starting from scratch and studying all of the bills anew,” the Senate President mentioned.
The Senate, beneath Zubiri’s management, handed six payments into regulation, 4 of that are of nationwide software.
At the second, 16 payments are awaiting the President’s signature, together with amendments to the National Cultural Heritage Act.
Three payments are pending convention committee, together with the act Standardizing and Upgrading the Benefits for Military Veterans and the One Town, One Product Act.
The Senate authorized six payments on third studying, with the payments now pending within the House of Representatives.
Four extra are set to be authorized on Monday, together with the Estate Tax Amnesty Act, which was authorized on second studying within the Senate final week, proper after the House of Representatives transmitted it to the Senate just a few weeks prior.
“We know that there is a lot more work to be done, and we are committed to seeing the rest of the priority bills through, as soon as we come back,” Zubiri mentioned.
Apart from the Maharlika Investment Fund Act, eight extra LEDAC precedence measures are already in superior phases within the Senate, in accordance with Zubiri, with the followings payments pending second studying approval: the Ease of Paying Taxes Act; the Magna Carta for Filipino Seafarers Act; the Act Institutionalizing the Automatic Income Classification of Provinces, Cities, and Municipalities; the New Philippine Passport Law; amendments to the Public-Private Partnership Act; the Internet Transactions Act; the Mandatory ROTC Act; and the Center for Disease Control Act.
“The Senate will continue to prioritize the quality of our measures over the speed of our performance or the quantity of our output, but we do expect to be able to devote more time to our plenary duties, now that most of our major Commission on Appointments (CA) work has already been dealt with,” he mentioned.
The Senate President mentioned the CA duties of the 13 senators, which consumed a lot of their morning schedules, made it a problem for them to work out the schedules of the Senate.
“But we are nevertheless proud of what we have been able to accomplish without sacrificing the quality of our bills, and we are ready to get right back to work in the Second Regular Session,” Zubiri mentioned. — DVM, GMA Integrated News
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