BANKS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
Venue: Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Time: 09:30 AM
Agenda/Resource Person: Substitute Bill to HBs 1561, 1900, 1919, 2195, 3015, 3410 & 3824, HJR 11, HRs 474, 523, 597 & 719 – Providing a ceiling on interest rates, penalties and other fees charged by banks and credit card companies for credit card transactions and prescribing penalties for violations thereof (Reps. Raymond Democrito Mendoza, Ben Evardone, Ma. Amelita Calimbas-Villarosa, Salvador Escudero III, Rufus Rodriguez, Erico Aumentado, Winston ‘Winnie’ Castelo, Daryl Grace Abayon, Amado Bagatsing and Jeci Lapus)
HBs 3358 & 4438 – Prohibiting the imposition of fees and charges on dormant accounts (Reps. Benhur Salimbangon and Rufus Rodriguez)

BASIC EDUCATION & CULTURE
Venue: Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Time: 09:30 AM
Agenda/Resource Person: HB 4395 – Providing for the protection and conservation of Baybayin, and declaring Baybayin as the national script of the Philippines (Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil)
HB 4778 – Establishing a separate city schools division office in the City of Talisay, Province of Negros Occidental, amending for the purpose RA 8489, converting the Municipality of Talisay, Negros Occidental into a component city to be known as the City of Talisay (Rep. Alfredo ‘Albee’ Benitez)
HBs 1373, 1376, 2499, 2506, 5006, 5448, 5449 & 5695 – Establishing national high schools in certain parts of the country and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Aurora Cerilles, Antonio Alvarez, Eduardo Gullas, Deputy Speaker Pablo Garcia and Rep. Peter ‘Sr. Pedro’ Unabia)
HB 1596 – Establishing a primary school in Barangay Cabuan in the City of Naga, Province of Cebu to be known as the Cabuan Primary School and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Eduardo Gullas)
HB 5425 – Establishing a national elementary school in Barangay Tumana, in the 2nd District, City of Marikina to be known as Tumana National Elementary School and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Romero Federico ‘Miro’ Quimbo)
HBs 3619 & 3620 – Converting the Dolores National High School and the Madapdap Resettlement High School in Magalang, Pampanga into a technical vocational and skills training high schools and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Carmelo Lazatin)
HB 5698 – Converting the Malaguip Elementary School in Paoay, Ilocos Norte into an integrated school to be known as the Malaguip Integrated School and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Imelda Romualdez Marcos)
HB 5738 – Nationalizing the Casoon High School (Monkayo National High School Annex) in Compostela Valley Province into the Casoon National High School and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Maria Carmen Zamora-Apsay)
HBs 3572, 4929, 5549, 5623, 5652 & 5702 – Separating and converting national high schools into independent national high schools in certain parts of the country and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Vicente Belmonte Jr., Erico Aumentado, Ranulfo Canonigo, Jesus Emmanuel Paras, Jonathan Cabilao Yambao, and Florencio Flores Jr.)

ENERGY
Venue: Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
Time: 09:30 AM
Agenda/Resource Person: Technical Working Group meeting on:

HB 1018 – Removing the lending authority of the National Electrification Administration (NEA) as provided under PD 269, otherwise known as the National Electrification Administration Decree, as amended (Rep. Cresente Paez)
HB 1019 – Transferring to the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) the supervisory powers over electric cooperatives registered under the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) (Rep. Cresente Paez)
HBs 5244, 5306, 5380 & 5578 – Strengthening the NEA, amending for the purpose PD 269 (Reps. Erico Aumentado, Rodel Batocabe, Michael Angelo Rivera and Henedina Abad)

GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION jt. w/ PUBLIC WORKS & HIGHWAYS
Venue: Conf. Rms. 9&10 RVM Bldg.
Time: 09:30 AM
Agenda/Resource Person: Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)

WAYS & MEANS
Venue: Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Hall G/F SW Annex B
Time: 09:30 AM
Agenda/Resource Person: (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)

AGRICULTURE & FOOD
Venue: Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Time: 01:30 PM
Agenda/Resource Person: Technical Working Group meeting on HBs 1038 & 4179 – Revitalizing the coconut industry and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Florencio ‘Bem’ Noel and Sharon Garin)

GLOBALIZATION & WTO
Venue: Conf. Rms. 3&4 RVM Bldg.
Time: 01:30 PM
Agenda/Resource Person: HR 937 – Inquiry into the Executive Department’s exercise of its power to set tariffs and enter into trade agreements as mandated by Congress, within specified limits, in light of stakeholders’ complaints of non-transparency and lack of stakeholders’ participation in the trade policy formulation process (Rep. Walden Bello)

INTER-PARLIAMENTARY RELATIONS & DIPLOMACY
Venue: Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Time: 01:30 PM
Agenda/Resource Person: HR 2093 – Organizing the Philippines-Belarus Parliamentarians’ Friendship Association (Rep. Maria Zenaida Angping)
HR 2094 – Organizing the Philippines-Russian Federation Parliamentarians’ Friendship Association (Rep. Maria Zenaida Angping)

Other Matters:
- Chairman’s feedback on the recently concluded 20th annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) held on January 08 to 12, 2012 in Tokyo, Japan
- Activation of Philippines-India Parliamentarians’ Friendship Association