HEALTH
Venue: Conf. Rms. 14&15 RVM Bldg.
Time: 09:00 AM
Agenda/Resource Person: Forum on “Strengthening the Philippine Health System”

GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES & PRIVATIZATION jt. w/ PUBLIC WORKS & HIGHWAYS
Venue: Conf. Rms. 3&4 RVM Bldg.
Time: 09:30 AM
Agenda/Resource Person: (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)

GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION jt. w/ TRADE & INDUSTRY
Venue: Conf. Rms. 14&15 RVM Bldg.
Time: 01:30 PM
Agenda/Resource Person: HB 5779 – Creating the Design Council of the Philippines, defining its powers and functions, appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara)
HB 6513 – Promoting competitive Filipino design, providing for the purpose a national design policy and strengthening and renaming the Product Development and Design Center of the Philippines (PDDCP) as the Design Center of the Philippines (Rep. Jorge ‘Bolet’ Banal)

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Venue: Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Time: 01:30 PM
Agenda/Resource Person: Update by the Philippine National AIDS Council on Millennium Development Goal No. 6 – “Combat HIV and AIDS, Malaria and other diseases”

HR 1725 – Inquiry into the status of the implementation of RA 9418, otherwise known as the Volunteerism Act of 2007, and on the various volunteerism efforts undertaken by concerned national government agencies, local government units and other stakeholders with special focus on the achievement of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (Deputy Speaker Jesus Crispin Remulla)

 Briefing by the Department of Health (DOH) on its health programs: Doctors to the Barrio, Registered Nurses For Health Enhancement And Local Service (RNHEALS) and Rural Health Midwives Placement Program (RHMPP)

NATURAL RESOURCES
Venue: Conf. Rms. 7&8 RVM Bldg.
Time: 01:30 PM
Agenda/Resource Person: Presentation of the consolidated Alternative Mining Bill by the Technical Working Group Chairman Rep. Teddy Brawner Baguilat Jr.

HB 852 – Declaring Buug natural biotic area located in the Municipality of Buug, Province of Zamboanga Sibugay as a protected area under the category of natural biotic area and its peripheral areas as buffer zones, providing for its management (Rep. Jonathan Cabilao Yambao)
HB 6137 – Declaring the Chocolate Hills as national patrimony, natural heritage park and geological monuments, penalizing their pillage, destruction and defacement (Rep. Erico Aumentado)

HBs 5488 & 5552– Classifying/declaring certain parcels of timberland/ public land in the Provinces of Palawan and Zamboanga del Norte as alienable and disposable lands (Reps. Antonio Alvarez and Ranulfo Canonigo)
HB 6081 – Excluding certain portions of the Naval Station San Miguel in the Municipalities of San Narciso and San Antonio, Province of Zambales from the operation of Proclamation No. 938, and declaring the excluded portions open to disposition under the provisions of RA 730, as amended, to bona fide residents actually occupying the same without public auction (Rep. Jun Omar Ebdane)
HB 6221 – Reclassifying a parcel of forest land in Barangay Udalo, Municipality of Abra de Ilog, Province of Occidental Mindoro, as alienable and disposable land for agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial and other productive purposes (Rep. Ma. Amelita Calimbas-Villarosa)

NORTH LUZON GROWTH QUADRANGLE
Venue: Conf. Rms. 9&10 RVM Bldg.
Time: 01:30 PM
Agenda/Resource Person: Briefing by the National Electrification Administration, Bureau of Soils and Water Management and Bureau of Immigration on their programs and projects for Regions I and II and the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR)