The invoice granting Philippine citizenship to American basketball participant Justin Donta Brownlee shall be now up for President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.’s signature.
This, after the Senate unanimously authorized on third and remaining studying House Bill 6624 with out amendments to the model handed by the decrease chamber.
Twenty-one senators voted for the passage of the measure. No one voted towards it nor abstained. The invoice hurdled remaining studying every week after it was authorized by the Senate on second studying.
“The Senate approved House Bill 6224, without amendments, paving the way for the transmittal of the measure to the President for signing,” a press release from the Office of Senator Sonny Angara, one of many authors of the payments that sought Brownlee’s naturalization, mentioned.
The lawmakers expedited the passage of the measure as Brownlee is being thought of within the lineup of Gilas Pilipinas, the county’s nationwide workforce for males’s basketball, which is about to face Lebanon and Jordan within the sixth and remaining window of the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers in February 2023.
Angara, additionally the chairman of the Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas — the nationwide sports activities affiliation for basketball — mentioned Brownlee will fill in for Utah Jazz participant Jordan Clarkson who remains to be fulfilling his commitments to his workforce within the National Basketball Association.
“With Brownlee as part of Gilas, we will be able to maintain the momentum going into the sixth window of the FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers this February. Things are definitely looking up for Philippine basketball and with the right amount [of] support, our resurgence in the world hoops stage could definitely become a reality sooner than later,” Angara mentioned. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News
