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THURSDAY, 02-FEBRUARY-2012
- Committee/SubCommittee:
COOPERATIVES DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on Draft Substitute Bill to HBs 1169, 1723, 2354, 3955 & 4611 - Reorganizing the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), revising for the purpose RA 6939, the law which created the CDA (Reps. Rodolfo Biazon, Rufus Rodriguez, Jose Ping-Ay, Deputy Speaker Pablo Garcia and Rep. Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES & PRIVATIZATION jt. w/ PUBLIC INFORMATION
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on HBs 5061 & 5147 – Amending RA 7306, providing for the establishment of the People’s Television Network, Incorporated (PTNI), defining its powers and functions, providing for its sources of funding (Reps. Lucy Marie Torres-Gomez and Dakila Carlo Cua)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATURAL RESOURCES
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on HR 226 – Investigation into the status and condition of the Marikina River Watershed with the end in view of identifying remedial measures to ensure its long-term viability as a natural resource and for its inclusion in the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) under RA 7568 (Rep. Romeo Acop)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRANSPORTATION
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 7&8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECOLOGY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 3&4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on HB 314 - Prohibiting the production of incandescent light bulbs completely within five years to cut down the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere which contributes to global warming (Rep. Roilo Golez)
WEDNESDAY, 01-FEBRUARY-2012
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ENERGY
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
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)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATIONAL CULTURAL COMMUNITIES (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SUFFRAGE & ELECTORAL REFORMS jt. w/ FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 14&15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Substitute Bill to HBs 3001, 3023, 3201 & 3966 – Amending RA 9189, otherwise known as the Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003 (Reps. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Salvador Escudero III, Walden Bello and Erico Aumentado)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRARIAN REFORM
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Part I
HB 5593 – Strengthening and institutionalizing credit guarantee and insurance support of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) to agrarian reform beneficiaries, small farmers and fisherfolk, amending for the purpose Chapter IV of RA 3844, also known as the Agricultural Land Reform Code (Rep. Agapito Guanlao)
Part II
Technical Working Group meeting on HRs 1615 & 1636 – Investigation into the accomplishment and current portfolio of the LBP with the end in view of determining compliance to its mandate as provided under RA 3844, as amended (Reps. Nasser Pangandaman and Agapito Guanlao)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRICULTURE & FOOD (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 13 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on Draft Substitute Bill to HBs 4282, 4137, 1679 & 5497 - Rationalizing the economic regulation of water utilities, creating the Water Regulatory Commission (WRC) (Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Reps. Bernadette Herrera-Dy, Rufus Rodriguez and Romero Federico 'Miro' Quimbo)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 9&10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 5128 – Instituting the code for Enterprise-Based Education and Training Code in the Philippines, otherwise known as EBT Code, amending for the purpose the Labor Code, RA 7686 or the Dual Training Act, EO 111 and consolidating all policies and programs to afford and to promote employment, protection of trainees/students and to improve the quality and relevance of education (Rep. Sherwin Tugna)
HBs 1076 & 2555 – Establishing a job training program for mature or older workers (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Joseph Victor Ejercito)
HB 1179 – Establishing the Siargao Manpower Livelihood and Skills Training Center in the Municipality of Dapa, Surigao Del Norte and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Francisco ‘Lalo’ Matugas)
HBs 1274, 1275, 1335 & 5074 – Mandating the establishment of livelihood training centers in all municipalities and cities and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco, Ph. D., Rodante Marcoleta and Salvio Fortuno)
HB 2626 – Establishing the Ticao Manpower Training and Development Center in the Province of Masbate and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Narciso Bravo, Jr.)
HB 5418 – Establishing a district skills and training center for out-of- school youth in the 1st District of Davao del Norte and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Anthony Del Rosario)
TUESDAY, 31-JANUARY-2012
- Committee/SubCommittee:
BANKS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 779 – Inquiry into the practices of the International Netherlands Group (ING) Bank N.V. Manila Branch that defrauded Filipino investors of billions of pesos (Rep. Andres Salvacion, Jr.)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
FOOD SECURITY
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 862 - Inquiry into the country's trade commitments under the minimum access volume on the importation of chicken and hog meat and other meat products (Rep. Agapito Guanlao)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 7&8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 5582 – Institutionalizing the convergence strategy for sustainable rural development, providing the implementing mechanisms therefor (Rep. Wilfrido Mark Enverga)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 9&10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Executive Meeting on the report of Rep. Eric Singson Jr., Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Internal Revenue on Subcommittee Report No. 6 regarding on the following measures:
HB 2484 – Providing for an additional excise tax of 10% on alcohol products, amending for the purpose the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) of 1997, as amended, 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 2485 – Providing for an additional tax of P3.00 per pack of cigar and cigarettes, amending for the purpose the NIRC of 1997, as amended, to generate funds for the PhilHealth universal coverage of indigent families, barangay officials and health and day care workers (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 Jr.)
HBs 3465, 3489 & 3666 – Restructuring the excise tax on tobacco products, amending for the purpose pertinent sections of the NIRC of 1997, as amended (Reps. Henedina Abad, Niel Tupas Jr. and Paolo Javier)
HB 4787 – Restructuring the excise tax on distilled spirits amending for the purpose Sec. 141 of the NIRC of 1997, as amended (Rep. Hermilando Mandanas)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 14&15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on HB 4053 – Requiring businesses/enterprises within ecozones to pay service fees to their host cities or municipalities, amending for the purpose RA 7916, otherwise known as the Special Economic Zone Act of 1995 (Rep. Sigfrido Tinga)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 9 & 10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Committee Report on HR 309 – Directing the Committee on Foreign Affairs to conduct a performance evaluation of Philippine posts (Rep. Al Francis Bichara)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
INTER-PARLIAMENTARY RELATIONS & DIPLOMACY (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Deliberation on:
- Parliamentarians’ Friendship Groups
- 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
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 4970 – Institutionalizing the Credit Surety Fund to enhance the accessibility of micro, small and medium entrepreneurs to the credit facility of banks (Rep. Erico Aumentado)
MONDAY, 30-JANUARY-2012
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS
Time and Venue : 01:00 PM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Executive Meeting on the following measures:
HB 2484 – Providing for an additional excise tax of 10% on alcohol products, amending for the purpose the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) of 1997, as amended, 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 2485 – Providing for an additional tax of P3.00 per pack of cigar and cigarettes, amending for the purpose the NIRC of 1997, as amended, to generate funds for the PhilHealth universal coverage of indigent families, barangay officials and health and day care workers (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 Jr.)
HBs 3465, 3489 & 3666 – Restructuring the excise tax on tobacco products, amending for the purpose pertinent sections of the NIRC of 1997, as amended (Reps. Henedina Abad, Niel Tupas Jr. and Paolo Javier)
HB 4787 – Restructuring the excise tax on distilled spirits, amending for the purpose Sec. 141 of the NIRC of 1997, as amended (Rep. Hermilando Mandanas)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GAMES & AMUSEMENTS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 3&4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Inquiry into the alleged losses incurred by the Philippine Gaming and Amusement Corporation (PAGCOR) caused by a foreign gambling syndicate led by Ben Lui a.k.a Louie Betton