The Senate will revert to conducting public hearings and different proceedings in particular person beginning Monday, August 7, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri stated Wednesday.
“In view of the Presidential Proclamation lifting the state of public health emergency due to COVID-19 and considering all activities have all returned in pre-pandemic levels, the Senate will no longer conduct hybrid hearings beginning Monday, August 7, 2023, and revert back to conducting hearings physically,” Zubiri stated in the course of the plenary session.
Zubiri stated that is additionally in keeping with the coverage of their counterparts within the House of Representatives, who’ve already cancelled hybrid periods and hearings.
“In line with this, we will go back to having face-to-face public hearings, unless there is a force majeure or emergency and majority members decide that we conduct remote or electronic means [in conducting hearings], in accordance with Section 22 of the Senate rules,” Zubiri added.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. lifted the state of public well being emergency on account of COVID-19 on July 22, two days forward of his second State of the Nation Address.
The Senate has carried out on-line hearings, first totally after which hybrid, since COVID-19 grounded the world in March 2020. — BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
