Committee Schedule - Weekly
* Unless otherwise indicated, all committee meeting venues are located at the House of Representatives Complex
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| Date: Tuesday, 26-August-2008 | ||
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| Committee/SubCommittee | Time and Venue | Agenda/Resource Person |
| AGRICULTURE & FOOD | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 12 | Technical Working Group |
| BANKS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 5 | HBs 4784 & 3053 – Strengthening further the anti-money laundering law, amending for the purpose RA 9160, also known as the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001 (Speaker Prospero Nograles and Rep. Rufus Rodriguez) |
| ECONOMIC AFFAIRS | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 6 | Technical Working Group |
| ENERGY | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 | HBs 346, 592, 1320 & 1724 – Amending RA 8479, otherwise known as the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act (Reps. Joseph Abaya and Danilo Suarez, Deputy Speaker Eric Singson and Rep. Liza Maza) HB 3029 – Regulating the downstream petroleum industry (Rep. Teodoro Casiño) HB 3030 – Instituting centralized procurement of petroleum in the country ( Rep. Teodoro Casiño) HB 4262 – Regulating the oil industry, establishing the oil price stabilization fund for the purpose and repealing RA 8479 (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez) |
| WAYS & MEANS | 09:30 AM Speaker's Conference Room | HB 1643 – Making donations or contributions in cash or in kind for victims of typhoons, floods, landslides, earthquakes, storm surges, tidal waves or other natural calamities deductible from taxable income within prescribed limits (Rep. Luis Villafuerte) Substitute bill to HBs 04, 173, 952, 1222, 1878, 2518, 2815,2857 & 3363 – Declaring a national policy on tourism as the primary engine of investment, employment, growth and national development and strengthening the Department of Tourism and its attached agencies (Rep. Edgardo Chatto) Substitute bill to HBs 1534, 1425, 1486 & 2353 – Establishing special economic zones and freeports in certain parts of the country (Reps. Ronald Singson, Albert Garcia, Antonio Lagdameo Jr. and Thelma Almario) Substitute bill to HBs 2314, 2806 & 817 – Providing for a comprehensive hazardous and radioactive waste management, providing penalties for violations thereof ( Reps. Raul Gonzalez Jr., Proceso Alcala and Judy Syjuco) |
| AGRICULTURE & FOOD | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 7 & 8 | Technical Working Group |
| CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 11 | Resolution of issues relative to measures proposing the amendment of the Constitution HR 549 – Strengthening local autonomy by empowering Congress to create more autonomous regions by amending Secs. 1 & 15, Art. X of the 1987 Constitution (Rep. Hermilando Mandanas) |
| PUBLIC ORDER & SAFETY | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 5 | HBs 192 & 752 – Instituting the Magna Carta for the Philippine National Police (PNP) uniformed and non-uniformed personnel (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara and Mark Llandro Mendoza) HJRs 01 & 08 – Expressing the approval by both Houses of Congress of the PNP Reorganization Plan pursuant to RA 8551, providing for the reform and reorganization of the PNP, and amending certain provisions of RA 6975, establishing the PNP under a reorganized Department of the Interior and Local Government (Reps. Joseph Emilio Abaya and Rodolfo Antonino) |
| Date: Wednesday, 27-August-2008 | ||
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| Committee/SubCommittee | Time and Venue | Agenda/Resource Person |
| BASIC EDUCATION & CULTURE jt. w/ LABOR & EMPLOYMENT | 09:00 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 9 & 10 | Forum on language-in-education policies and practices in our country |
| APPROPRIATIONS jt. w/ HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 12 | For confirmation |
| CIVIL SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL REGULATION | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 15 | HB 512 – Providing for a more responsive and comprehensive regulation for the practice, licensing and registration of environmental and sanitary engineers in the Philippines, amending for the purpose RA 1364 (Rep. Mauricio Domogan) HB 4043 – Providing for the regulation, supervision and professionalization of the practice, licensing and registration of sanitarians (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez) HB 2264 – Regulating and modernizing the practice of interior design in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose RA 8534, known as the Philippine Interior Design Act of 1998 (Rep. Lorna Silverio) HB 3239 – Regulating the practice of plumbing engineering in the Philippines, amending for the purpose RA 1378, otherwise known as the Plumbing Law (Rep. Jose Solis) HB 3824 – Strengthening and rationalizing the career service of the Congress of the Philippines by establishing a legislative career service and a legislative academy (Rep. Raul Gonzalez, Jr. ) Substitute bill to HB 3111 – Regulating the practice of geology in the Philippines, repealing for the purpose RA 4209, otherwise known as Geology Profession Law of the Philippines (Rep. Raul Gonzalez, Jr.) Substitute bill to HBs 2836 & 2663 – Integrating the medical profession of the Philippines (Reps. Salvador Escudero III and Maria Evita Arago) |
| GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES & PRIVATIZATION | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 6 | HB 448 – Granting delinquent employers a one-time opportunity to pay all unremitted and/or unpaid contributions to the Social Security System without incurring the prescribed penalties (Deputy Speaker Raul Del Mar) HB 4194 – Authorizing the condonation of penalties on delinquent social security contributions (Rep. Lorenzo Tañada III) HB 2626 – Amending Commonwealth Act 542, creating a corporation to be known as the Girl Scouts of the Philippines (Deputy Speaker Ma. Amelita Villarosa) |
| HIGHER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 | Technical Working Group |
| OVERSIGHT | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 11 | For confirmation |
| HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 | For confirmation |
| LEGISLATIVE FRANCHISES | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 5 | For confirmation |
| LOCAL GOVERNMENT | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 14 | Substitute bill to HBs 389, 742, 1250, 2183, 2625, 3505 & 4367 – Reducing the rate of amusement tax to be collected from the proprietors, lessees or operators of theaters or cinemas, amending for the purpose Sec.140 of RA 7160 known as the Local Government Code of 1991 (Reps. Roilo Golez, Lorenzo Tañada III, Al Francis Bichara, Rufus Rodriguez, Luis Villafuerte and William Irwin Tieng) HB 1279 – Prescribing that provinces appropriate and set aside annually, according to their respective classifications, a specific sum for the acquisition of law books, law journals and periodicals, in print or encoded in digital or other electronic formats, that shall form part of provincial public law libraries in their respective jurisdictions for the use of law students, lawyers, judges and court personnel (Rep. Luis Villafuerte) HB 2662 – Excluding San Pablo City and its seven lakes from the coverage of RA 4850, as amended by PD 813 and EO 927, giving the jurisdiction over the seven lakes to the local government of San Pablo City (Rep. Maria Evita Arago) HB 3753 – Creating the municipality of Culasi in the province of Iloilo (Rep. Niel Tupas, Jr.) |
| NATURAL RESOURCES | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 6 | Privilege speech on human rights to water (Rep. Ana Theresia Hontiveros-Baraquel) |
| PEOPLE'S PARTICIPATION | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 3 | HB 4735 – Institutionalizing the participation of people’s organizations and non-governmental organizations in the deliberation of the annual national budget (Rep. Guillermo Cua) |
| YOUTH & SPORTS DEVELOPMENT | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 11 | For confirmation |
| Date: Thursday, 28-August-2008 | ||
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| Committee/SubCommittee | Time and Venue | Agenda/Resource Person |
| ENERGY | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 | Technical Working Group |
| FOOD SECURITY | 09:30 AM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 3 | Technical Working Group |
| APPROPRIATIONS | 01:30 PM RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 6 | Technical Working Group |