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WEDNESDAY, 07-DECEMBER-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
COOPERATIVES DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 4478 – Providing for the creation of Cooperative Banking Act of 2011 (Rep. Jose Ping-ay)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES & PRIVATIZATION
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on:
HBs 1050, 1399, 1180, 2973, 2975, 2995, 3785, 3964, 4966 & 5043 – Further amending PD 1146, as amended by RA 8291, otherwise known as the Revised Government Service Insurance Act of 2007 (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez, Francisco ‘Lalo’ Matugas, Salvador Escudero III, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Edgar San Luis, Erico Aumentado, Linabelle Ruth Villarica and Anthony Del Rosario)
HB 2582 – Granting old-age pension benefit to retirees under RA 1616, as amended, for aged 70 years or over, and providing funds therefor (Rep. Winston ‘Winnie’ Castelo)
HB 3441 – Extending the moratorium period granted by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) last September 2009 by one more year, to expire on September 30, 2011 (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HB 4846 – Institutionalizing the rights of GSIS members, providing them additional representation in the GSIS board, ensuring prompt payment of all their benefits (Rep. Tomas Apacible)
HB 5150 – Increasing the monthly pension of retirees of the government and adjusting the same every five years to make it at par with the value of peso in relation to the cost of index of prices of basic commodities (Rep. Lani Mercado-Revilla)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
HEALTH
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 9&10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Determination of the sufficiency in substance of the impeachment complaint against Supreme Court Associate Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo filed by Isabelita Vinuya, Pilar Galang, et al., and Reps. Reynaldo Umali, Bernadette Herrera-Dy, Cesar Sarmiento, Irvin Alcala, Florencio Flores Jr., Vicente Belmonte Jr.,Teddy Brawner Baguilat Jr., Jorge ‘Bolet’ Banal, Walden Bello and Kaka Bag-ao with motion for inclusion as complainants filed by Reps. Winston ‘Winnie’ Castelo, Carlo Lopez, Deogracias Ramos Jr. and Philip Pichay
- Committee/SubCommittee:
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT (Subcommittee on Labor Standards)
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 7 & 8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Draft Substitute Bill to HBs 454, 553, 729, 837, 1140, 1201, 1815, 2400, 2559, 3717, 4277, 4477, 4753, 4896 & SB 78 –Providing for additional benefits and protection to the househelpers, amending Arts. 141, 142, 143, 148 and 151 of Chapter III of P.D. 442, as amended, otherwise known as the Labor Code of the Philippines (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara, Juan Ponce Enrile Jr., Rufus Rodriguez, Jose Carlos Cari, Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo, Marcelino Teodoro, Emmeline Aglipay, Romeo Acop, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Tobias ‘Toby’ Tiangco, Raymond Democrito Mendoza, Emil Ong, Catalina Bagasina, Lani Mercado-Revilla and Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito-Estrada)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATIONAL CULTURAL COMMUNITIES
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 3 & 4, R.V. Mitra Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Investigation into the alleged harassment perpetrated against the members of the Ayta tribe in Porac, Pampanga, who are applicants of Certificate of Ancestral Domain Title RO3POR-0709 123
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SUFFRAGE & ELECTORAL REFORMS jt. w/ FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on the amendments to the Overseas Absentee Voting (OAV) Law
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRARIAN REFORM (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AQUACULTURE & FISHERIES RESOURCES
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 1411 – Inquiry into the non-implementation of Sec. 108 of RA 8550, otherwise known as the Philippine Fisheries Code, on the creation and establishment of fisherfolk settlements (Rep. Sharon Garin)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECOLOGY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 3&4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 8 – Establishing the Philippine Environmental Assessment System (Rep. Irvin Alcala)
HB 3836 – Enhancing the Philippine Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) System to strengthen public participation therein (Rep. Kaka Bag-ao)
HR 1128 – Inquiry into reports that the Philippines is very vulnerable to coral reef degradation (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HR 1233 – Inquiry into the continuing illegal exportation and exploitation of Philippine corals, as well as the degradation of Philippine coral reefs (Rep. Emmeline Aglipay)
HR 1363 – Inquiry into the harvest and illegal trade of endangered marine species in the coast of BIMP-EAGA islands in Mindanao and Palawan, protected by the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) resulting in the destruction of our sea bed (Rep. Ma. Rachel Arenas)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 14&15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 1679, 4137 & 4282 – Rationalizing the financial and economic regulation of water utilities, creating the Water Regulatory Commission (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez, Bernadette Herrera-Dy and Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.)
HR 186 – Inquiry into the need to enact a new legislation to integrate all laws and government agencies involved in water management in the Philippines into one single law and government agency (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
Draft Committee Report on Substitute Bill to HBs 56, 186 &1892 – Creating the Philippine Trade Representative Office, appropriating funds therefor (Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III, Reps. Pryde Henry Teves and Karlo Alexei Nograles)
Draft Committee Report on Substitute Bill to HBs 212, 1164, 4400, 4610 & 4687 – Instituting reforms in real property valuation in the Philippines, establishing the National Valuation Authority and appropriating funds therefor (Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Reps. Rodolfo Biazon, Mel Senen Sarmiento, Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo and Rufus Rodriguez)
Draft Substitute Bill to HB 4050 – Creating the Metro Carigara, establishing the Metro Carigara Commission, defining its powers and functions, providing funds therefor (Rep. Sergio Apostol)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 9 & 10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 5125 – Amending RA 8282, which has amended RA 1161, otherwise known as the Social Security Law, to reduce the retirement age of underground mine workers, mill plant workers and support services, such as mechanical, electrical, and tailings pond personnel to 50 years old (Rep. Ronald Cosalan)
HR 769 – Inquiry into the implementation of Art. 110 of the Labor Code of the Philippines vis-à-vis the plight of the members of the Associations of Employees of Pantranco as regards their labor claims (Rep. Ronald Cosalan)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
LEGISLATIVE FRANCHISES
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 7&8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
OVERSEAS WORKERS AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Discussion on the following issues affecting overseas Filipino workers (OFWs):
Implementation of Sec. 4 of RA 8042, as amended by RA 10022, on the deployment of migrant workers only to receiving countries compliant with any of the three guarantees provided by law, as certified by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) through a certification issued to the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)
Status of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Philippines and Lebanon concerning the protection of OFWs
Status of the “Los Angeles 11” case, which is the subject of the Privilege Speech of Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III calling attention to human trafficking cases involving Filipinos in the United States
HR 1428 – Inquiry into the situation of OFWs who, after conviction on various legal infractions in their host countries, served their jail term or are pardoned and are now eligible to get out of prison (Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PUBLIC ORDER & SAFETY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 3652, 4082 & 4281 – Placing the provincial, sub-provincial and district jails under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), amending for the purpose certain provisions of RA 6975, otherwise known as the Department of the Interior and Local Government Act of 1990, RA 7160, or the Local Government Code of the Philippines and RA 9263, or the Bureau of Fire Protection and Bureau of Jail Management and Penology Professionalization Act of 2004 (Reps. Daisy Avance-Fuentes, Salvador Escudero III and Francisco ‘Lalo’ Matugas)
HR 1380 – Inquiry into the state of the country's prisons and jails (Rep. Arnel Ty)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRADE & INDUSTRY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on the Substitute Bill to HBs 448, 518, 613, 616, 770, 1153, 1225, 1229, 1469, 2726, 3120, 3833, 4404 & 5059 and HR 27 – Granting broader protection for consumers, amending for the purpose RA 7394, otherwise known as the Consumer Act of the Philippines (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara, Marcelino Teodoro, Minority Leader Edcel Lagman, Reps. Luis Villafuerte, Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo, Rufus Rodriguez, Ma. Amelita Calimbas-Villarosa and Tomas Apacible)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION
Time and Venue : 02:00 PM / Conf. Rm. 13 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
TUESDAY, 06-DECEMBER-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
BASES CONVERSION (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 1163 – Amending RA 7227, otherwise known as the Bases Conversion and Development Act of 1992, as amended by RA 7917, by expanding the allocation of revenues from the sale, lease, joint-venture agreements and other transactions involving military bases and reservations, allocating funds therefor (Rep. Rodolfo Biazon)
HB 4039 – Accelerating the Central Luzon regional development, amending for the purpose RA 7227, as amended, by expanding the allocation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) from the revenues from the sale, lease, joint-venture agreements and other transactions involving military bases and reservations, allocating funds therefor (Rep. Carmelo Lazatin)
HB 4176 – Providing for the inclusion of the Fernando Air Base in Lipa, Batangas in the conversion of military reservations into other productive uses, amending for the purpose RA 7227, as amended (Rep. Hermilando Mandanas)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOOD GOVERNMENT & PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 7&8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 58 – Inquiry into resolving the issue regarding the Poverty Eradication and Alleviation Certificates (PEACE) bonds and on whether the government was defrauded or not (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NORTH LUZON GROWTH QUADRANGLE
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Briefing by the Road Board on its policies and programs
Briefing by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on the 2012 budget allocation and programs for Regions I and II and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Inquiry into the legal basis of the Revenue Memorandum Circular No. 40-2011, relating to the use of revised Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) forms 1700, 1701 and 1702 requiring the disclosure of additional detailed information, such as income subjected to final tax, income exempt from tax and exclusions from gross income under Sec. 32 (B) of the Tax Code, as amended
Motu Proprio inquiry into the status of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Trust Fund and similar trust funds of other government agencies
HBs 185 & 2123 – Amending Sec. 16 of RA 7586, otherwise known as the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992 (Reps. Pryde Henry Teves and George Arnaiz)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 3&4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Inquiry into the syndicated crime of estafa filed by the Philippine Gaming and Amusement Corporation (PAGCOR) against a gambling syndicate led by Ben Lui a.k.a. Louie Betton
HB 5111 – Upholding the constitutional right to travel and granting to the proper court the exclusive jurisdiction to issue hold departure orders (Minority Leader Edcel Lagman)
HB 5480 – Governing the issuances and implementation of hold departure orders, watchlist orders, and allow departure orders by the Department of Justice (DOJ) (Rep. Romero Federico ‘Miro’ Quimbo)
HB 5510 – Strengthening and institutionalizing the power of the Secretary of Justice to issue and implement hold departure orders, watchlist orders and allow departure orders (Rep. Reynaldo Umali)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
MUSLIM AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Draft Committee Report on HR 679 – Investigation into the plight of Muslim Filipinos during the yearly Hajj at Mecca so that remedial measures could be undertaken to address their concerns (Rep. Nur Jaafar)
Briefing by the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) on the recently concluded Hajj 2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Briefing by the Department of Health (DOH), Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) on the status of the government’s water program
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 7&8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Substitute Bill to HB 3382 – Establishing financial management reforms for government research and development operations (Rep. Angelo Palmones)
Substitute Bill to HB 3676 – Expanding the coverage of the Science and Technology Scholarship Program and providing additional sources of funding, amending for the purpose RA 7687, as amended by RA 8248 (Rep. Angelo Palmones)
HBs 1977, 5037 & 5287 – Strengthening research on stem cell technology (Reps. Eufranio ‘Franny’ Eriguel, M.D., Anthony Del Rosario and Carmelo Lazatin)
HR 1296 – Congratulating and commending Miguel Arnold Reyes, a graduate of the Philippine Science High School, for putting the Philippines in the world map by placing 2nd in the recently concluded Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in the materials and bioengineering category and for achieving a rare feat of having an asteroid named after him (Rep. Winston ‘Winnie’ Castelo)
HR 1436 – Expressing appreciation and recognition of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Undersecretary Fortunato T. Dela Peña's election as the new chairman of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (UNCSTD) (Rep. Angelo Palmones)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SOCIAL SERVICES jt. w/ INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 9&10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 1681 & 2955 – Providing hearing-impaired and speech-impaired persons access to telecommunications systems (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Marcelino Teodoro)
MONDAY, 05-DECEMBER-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 09:00 AM / Conf. Rms. 7&8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GAMES & AMUSEMENTS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 1549 – Creating an Amusement Parks Safety Board (Rep. Marcelino Teodoro)
HR 1738 – Inquiry into the scopes and respective roles of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) on lottery and gaming implementation (Rep. George Arnaiz)