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THURSDAY, 02-DECEMBER-2010
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION jt. w/ INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRADE & INDUSTRY jt/ w/ ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 12
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATURAL RESOURCES
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 7 & 8
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group
WEDNESDAY, 01-DECEMBER-2010
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SOCIAL SERVICES (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 09:00 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 7 & 8
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 1681 & 2955 – Providing hearing-impaired and speech-impaired persons access to telecommunication system (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Marcelino Teodoro)
HB 1685 – Granting persons with disability who are self-employed a 70% government subsidy for their monthly premium contributions to the Social Security System for the first three months of coverage, amending for the purpose RA 7277, otherwise known as the Magna Carta for disabled persons (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HB 3192 – Amending RA 7277, otherwise known as the Magna Carta for disabled persons (Rep. Imelda Calixto-Rubiano)
HR 221 – Investigation into the status of the implementation of various laws applicable to persons with disabilities, in the light of various reports that certain drugstores are not honoring the discount on purchases made by persons with disabilities pursuant to RA 9442, as amended and Administrative Order 2009-0011 by the Department of Health (Rep. Walden Bello)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SUFFRAGE & ELECTORAL REFORMS jt. w/ FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 09:00 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 3 & 4
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 3001, 3023 & 3201 – Amending RA 9189, otherwise known as the Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003 (Reps. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Salvador Escudero III and Walden Bello)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
APPROPRIATIONS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 9 & 10
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 32, 187, 283, 287, 594, 752, 819, 839, 1167, 1426 & 1967 – Converting and establishing a regular district office of the Land Transportation Office in various parts of the country and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Jane Castro, Pryde Henry Teves, Roilo Golez, Maria Carmen Zamora-Apsay, Roberto Puno, Arturo Robes, Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco Ph. D., Jeci Lapus, Francisco ‘Lalo’ Matugas, Antonio Lagmadeo Jr. and Imelda Quibranza-Dimaporo)
HB 229 – Increasing the burial assistance for veterans from P10,000.00 to P20,000.00, amending for the purpose RA 6948, standardizing and upgrading the benefits for military veterans and their dependents (Rep. Herminia Roman)
HBs 105, 429, 697, 949, 2872, 3006 & 3022 – Amending RA 9184, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act (Reps. Joseph Emilio Abaya, Juan Edgardo Angara, Rufus Rodriguez, Reynaldo Umali, Joseph Victor Ejercito and Salvador Escudero III)
HB 724 – Establishing and maintaining an Office of Veterans Affairs in the Philippine Embassy in the United States of America, prescribing its functions and providing funds therefor (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HB 735 – Establishing the Talisay City State College in the Province of Cebu and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Eduardo Gullas)
HBs 200, 1768, 1814, 1922, 2113 & 2632 – Separating and converting colleges into state universities in various parts of the country and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Luis Villafuerte, Cesar Sarmiento, Mercedes Alvarez, Gabriel Quisumbing, Dakila Carlo Cua and Ferjenel Biron)
HB 3161 – Strengthening the Philippine Public Safety College System as the premier educational institution for training, human resource development and continuing education of all police, fire and jail personnel, appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Amado Bagatsing)
HB 3555 – Institutionalizing preschool education into the basic education system and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Thelma Almario)
HB 3640 – Rationalizing the compensation and position classification system in government-owned and controlled corporations and government financial institutions (Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya)
Substitute Bill to HBs 2528 & 3434 – Establishing a Philippine high school for sports in every region and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Wilfrido Mark Enverga and Juan Edgardo Angara)
Substitute Bill to HB 2899 – Establishing the Diosdado P. Macapagal Memorial Library and Museum (Rep. Carmelo Lazatin)
HR 222 – Inquiry into the propriety of amending Sec. 53 of RA 9184, otherwise known as the Government Procurement Reform Act (Rep. Cresente Paez)
HCR 1 - Reconvening the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee created under Sec. 74 of RA 9184, for the purpose of formulating the necessary implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for foreign-funded procurement activities of the government (Rep. Joseph Emilio Abaya)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
COOPERATIVES DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 12
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 14 & 15
Agenda/Resource Person :
House Concurrent Resolution relative to Proclamation No. 75 re: Granting Amnesty to active and former personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in connection with the Oakwood Mutiny, the Marine Stand-off and the Peninsula Manila Hotel Incident
HBs 214, 1767, 2438 & 2795 - Amending RA 9048, Authorizing the city or municipal Civil Registrar or the Consul General to correct clerical or typographical error in the family name, date of birth or sex of a person appearing in the civil register without need of a judicial order (Reps.Magtanggol Gunigundo I,Florencio Miraflores, Mercedes Alvarez and George Arnaiz)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATIONAL CULTURAL COMMUNITIES
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 6
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 450 – Commending the 18-person team to the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Indigenous Tribal Games in Malaysia last September 16 to 18, 2010 for winning medals in the said event and for instilling pride in fellow indigenous peoples of the Philippines (Rep. Teddy Baguilat Jr.)
HBs 354, 647 & 2781 – Prohibiting discrimination against persons on account of ethnic origin and/or religious belief (Reps. Susan Yap, Juan Edgardo Angara and Tupay Loong)
Discussion on the following issues and concerns:
a) Suspension of the registration of Certificate of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADTs) and Certificate of Ancestral Land Titles (CALTs) by the Register of Deeds which resulted in the delays in the awarding of CADT of the Ati in Boracay
b) Status of the complaint lodged by the Mangyan Buhid on the continued issuance of Certificate of Land Ownership Allotments (CLOAs) by the Department of Agrarian Reform within the Mangyan Buhid ancestral domain
c) Status of the complaint of the Dumagat Agta of Aurora regarding the delays in the delineation survey of their ancestral domain which is now being occupied by the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport
Deliberation on the alleged irregularities committed by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) in the conversion and subsequent awarding of the Certificate of Ancestral Domain Claim (CADC)–132 and Pres. Proc. 2205 into CADT–117 to beneficiaries who are not successors or heirs of CADC holder Datu Hawodon Cugbahan Tagleong Coguit of Agusan del Norte
Report of the Committee Chairman on the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) Summit to formulate the legislative agenda for IPs
- Committee/SubCommittee:
POPULATION & FAMILY RELATIONS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 96, 101, 513, 1160 & 3387 – Providing for a national policy on reproductive health, responsible parenthood and population development (Minority Leader Edcel Lagman, Reps. Janette Garin, Kaka Bag-ao, Rodolfo Biazon and Luzviminda Ilagan)
HB 1520 – Protecting the right of the people to information on reproductive health care services (Rep. Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco Ph. D.)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRANSPORTATION
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 13
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 1601 – Promoting a pocket open skies policy of the Philippines (Rep. Rex Gatchalian)
HB 1352 – Providing for the greater liberalization of the commercial aviation industry of the Philippines by aligning existing rules and regulations (Rep. Aurora Cerilles)
HB 3312 – Appropriating P30 million pesos for the completion of the Maasin Airport located in Maasin City, Southern Leyte (Rep. Roger Mercado)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRARIAN REFORM
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 7 & 8
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRICULTURE & FOOD
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 3 & 4
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 822, 843, 1222, 1431, 1774, 2596 & 3153 - Promoting the agricultural and fisheries mechanization development in the country (Reps. Reps. Diosdado Arroyo, Angelo Palmones, Pryde Henry Teves, Agapito Guanlao, Mark Llandro Mendoza and Jeci Lapus)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AQUACULTURE & FISHERIES RESOURCES
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 5
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 57 – Establishing marine protected areas in all coastal municipalities and cities (Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III)
HB 2240 – Requiring coastal provinces, coastal cities and first class coastal municipalities to have a marine reserve for aquatic resources and fisheries officer to supervise the same and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Marcelino Teodoro)
Creating a technical working group to consolidate measures amending RA 8550, otherwise known as the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 11
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 657 – Imposing safeguards in contracting loans classified as Official Development Assistance, amending for the purpose RA 8182, as amended by RA 8555, otherwise known as the Official Development Assistance Act of 1996 (Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 9 & 10
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 309 – Directing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to conduct a performance evaluation of our Philippine posts (Rep. Al Francis Bichara)
Report by the Department of Foreign Affairs on the performance of the Philippine posts in the Americas
- Committee/SubCommittee:
HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 14 & 15
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 154 & 3278 – Creating a Local Housing Board in every city and municipality, prescribing its powers, duties and functions (Reps. Edwin Olivares and Joseph Victor Ejercito)
HB 215 – Amending PD 957, regulating the sale of subdivision lots and condominiums by increasing the penalties for violations thereof (Rep. Magtanggol Gunigundo I)
HB 915 – Instituting reforms in the Subdivision and Condominium Buyers’ Protective Decree (Rep. Susan Yap)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TOURISM
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 739 – Declaring not less than seven hectares within or around the vicinity of Malabsay Falls within the territorial jurisdiction of Naga City or its environs as a tourist zone and prescribing for its priority development (Rep. Luis Villafuerte)
HB 1134 – Creating the Limasawa Tourism Development Authority (Rep. Roger Mercado)
HBs 1532, 1615, 1865, 1866, 1874, 2140, 2141, 2217, 2252, 2383, 2384, 2385, 2386, 2387, 2388, 2389, 2406, 2413, 2749, 3066, 3067, 3068, 3069, 3070 & 3071 – Declaring various parts of the country as eco-tourism zones and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Francisco ‘Lalo’ Matugas, Bernardo Vergara, Imelda Quibranza-Dimaporo, Benhur Salimbangon, Manuel Agyao, Thelma Almario, Rodolfo Valencia, Antonio Kho, Raden Sakaluran, Eleanor Bulut-Begtang, Cesar Sarmiento, Edgar San Luis and Rogelio Espina M.D.)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WELFARE OF CHILDREN
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 6
Agenda/Resource Person :
Substitute Bill to HBs 82, 646, 812, 832, 1080, 1565, 1604, 2129, 2177, 2280, 3268, 3293, 3397 & 3582 - Establishing at least one Special Education (SPED) center for each school division and at least three SPED centers in big school divisions for children with special needs (CSNs), creating the implementing machinery thereof, providing guidelines for government financial assistance and other incentives and support and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Susan Yap, Juan Edgardo Angara, Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco Ph. D., Pedro Acharon Jr., Bernadette Herrera-Dy, Eulogio ‘Amang’ Magsaysay, Danilo Ramon Fernandez, Winston ‘Winnie’ Castelo, Rufus Rodriguez, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Imelda Calixto-Rubiano, Raymund Palatino and Rodolfo Biazon)
HBs 322, 489, 1793, 2278, 3012 & 3274 - Strengthening and propagating foster care for abandoned and neglected children and other children with special needs and providing appropriations therefor (Reps. Susan Yap, Juan Edgardo Angara, Bernadette Herrera-Dy, Rufus Rodriguez, Salvador Escudero III and Joseph Victor Ejercito)
HBs 1079 & 2888 – Codifying the alternative child care laws of the Philippines (Reps. Bernadette Herrera-Dy and Joseph Victor Ejercito)
Privilege Speech entitled “Desperately seeking George Francis’ mother” (Rep. Lani Mercado-Revilla)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION
Time and Venue : 02:00 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 12
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on HB 3264 - Strengthening the right of the people to participatory governance through the empowerment of nongovernment organizations and people's organizations, instituting for the purpose a bottom-up mechanism in crafting development plans (Rep. Joseph Victor Ejercito)
TUESDAY, 30-NOVEMBER-2010
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ENERGY
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 1 & 2
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 1937 – Deferring the sale and privatization of Unified Leyte Geothermal Power Plants or Tongonan Plants, amending RA 9136, otherwise known as the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez)
HR 118 – Urging the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Corporation to defer the bidding for the sale and privatization of the Leyte A and B geothermal complexes in Tongonan, Leyte (Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez)
HR 410 – Enjoining PSALM from privatizing Angat Dam (Rep. Antonio Tinio)
JCR 6 – Extending the term of the Joint Congressional Power Commission (Deputy Speaker Arnulfo Fuentebella)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / R. R. Andaya Hall
Agenda/Resource Person :
Motu Proprio investigation into the status of the Sicpatrace proposal in relation to the implementation of affixing internal revenue stamps on the pack of cigars and cigarettes pursuant to Sec. 8 (A) of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997 (NIRC), as amended
HB 2484 – Providing for an additional excise tax of 10% on alcohol products, amending for the purpose the NIRC, as amended by RA 9334, to generate funds for the information communication technology (ICT) program of public elementary and secondary schools, construction of new school buildings and hiring of new teachers, preferably with ICT proficiency, English, Math and Science majors (Rep. Erico Aumentado)
HB 2687 – Restructuring the excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products (Rep. Jocelyn Limkaichong)
HBs 3059 & 3183 – Promoting equitable sharing of costs and benefits in the alcohol and tobacco industry, amending for the purpose Secs. 141, 142, 143 and 145 of the NIRC of 1997, as amended (Reps. Hermilando Mandanas and Danilo Suarez)
HB 3332 – Increasing the excise tax rates imposed on alcohol and tobacco products, amending Secs. 141, 142, 143, 144 and 145 of the NIRC of 1997 (Rep. Eric Singson)
HB 3161 – Strengthening the Philippine Public Safety College System as the premier educational institution for training human resource development and continuing education of all police, fire and jail personnel, appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Amado Bagatsing)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GAMES & AMUSEMENTS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 3 & 4
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 295 – Creating the National Gaming Commission and providing funds therefor (Rep. Danilo Suarez)
HB 3398 – Creating the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Commission and providing funds therefor (Deputy Speaker Arnulfo Fuentebella)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
INTER-PARLIAMENTARY RELATIONS & DIPLOMACY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rm. 11
Agenda/Resource Person :
Discussion/interaction on agriculture and aquaculture cooperation with the members of the Taiwan delegation led by Dr. Jei-Fu Shaw, President of the National Chung Hsing University of Taiwan
- Committee/SubCommittee:
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 14 & 15
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 23, 148, 1195, 1320 & 2689 – Providing for a Magna Carta of the Poor (Reps. Rachel Marguerite Del Mar, Ben Evardone, Marcelino Teodoro, Rodante Marcoleta and Peter ‘Sr. Pedro’ Unabia)
HBs 81, 848, 1500 & 3486 – Institutionalizing the conditional cash transfer program of the government and providing funds therefor (Reps. Susan Yap, Ma. Amelita Calimbas-Villarosa, Juan Edgardo Angara and Rufus Rodriguez)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
YOUTH & SPORTS DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 7 & 8
Agenda/Resource Person :
Discussion on the issues concerning the funding provision under Sec. 26 of RA 6847, otherwise known as the Philippine Sports Commission Act
HBs 939, 1578 & 2662 – Amending RA 9064, otherwise known as the National Athletes, Coaches and Trainers Benefits and Incentives Act of 2001 (Reps. Mark Aeron Sambar, Diosdado Arroyo and Lucy Torres-Gomez)