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THURSDAY, 02-JUNE-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRANSPORTATION
Time and Venue : 02:00 PM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
WEDNESDAY, 01-JUNE-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRARIAN REFORM
Time and Venue : 01:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 4372 – Strengthening and rationalizing the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) to conform to the mandate of the Constitution and upgrade agricultural management and productivity, thereby contributing to the national economic development and the upliftment of the economic status of the farmers and farmworkers who are the legitimate beneficiaries of the program, amending for the purpose RA 6657, as amended (Deputy Speaker Pablo Garcia)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES & PRIVATIZATION
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 1773 – Establishing the State Agricultural Guarantee and Insurance Protection Funds (SAGIP Funds), creating the State Agricultural Guarantee and Insurance Protection Corporation (SAGIP Co.), defining its objectives, powers, functions and providing funds therefor (Rep. Agapito Guanlao)
HB 2825 – Further amending PD 1467, as amended, otherwise known as the Charter of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation, in order to expand and improve agricultural insurance in the Philippines and promote small agricultural producers’ resilience to climate change (Rep. Walden Bello)
HB 3758 – Strengthening the Philippine Crop Insurance System by expanding its program coverage, increasing its funding source and imposing heavier penalties on spurious claims, amending PD 1467, as amended (Rep. Ma. Georgina De Venecia)
HB 4184 – Further amending PD 1467, as amended, and RA 8175, otherwise known as the Revised Charter of the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (Rep. Angelo Palmones)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
MINDANAO AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 3 & 4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Briefing by the Department of Energy (DOE) on the power supply situation in Mindanao
- Committee/SubCommittee:
REVISION OF LAWS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 9 & 10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 798 – Amending pertinent provisions of EO 209, otherwise known as the Family Code of the Philippines, relative to the provisions on the annulment of marriages (Rep. Marc Douglas Cagas IV)
HB 3952 – Recognizing spousal violence, infidelity and abandonment as presumptive psychological incapacity constituting a ground for the annulment of marriage, amending Art. 36 of EO 209 (Rep. Neri Colmenares)
HB 1290 – Legalizing church annulment or dissolution of certain marriages (Deputy Speaker Pablo Garcia)
HB 1799 – Introducing divorce in the Philippines, amending for the purpose Arts.55 to 66 inclusive and Art. 26 of EO 209, as amended, repealing Art. 36 of the same Code (Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan)
HB 1286 – Amending Art. 66 of the Civil Code of the Philippines in order to prescribe additional requirements for male citizens or subjects of a foreign country desiring to marry a Filipino woman (Deputy Speaker Pablo Garcia)
HB 4269 – Amending Art. 26 of EO 209 (Rep. Rene Relampagos)
HB 4368 – Amending EO 209 by harmonizing said law with recent rulings of the Supreme Court on divorce obtained by the alien spouse in another country (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HBs 1700, 2277, 2480 & 4023 – Amending Arts. 155 and 157 of EO 209, strengthening the provisions of the law governing family home (Reps. Rodolfo Biazon, Rufus Rodriguez, Marcelino Teodoro and Marlyn Primicias-Agabas)
HBs 2710 & 2875 – Amending Chapter II, Title V of EO 209 (Reps. Reena Concepcion Obillo and Joseph Victor Ejercito)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SUFFRAGE & ELECTORAL REFORMS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 3413 – Prohibiting the establishment of political dynasties (Rep. Teddy Casiño)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRANSPORTATION
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 7 & 8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATIONAL DEFENSE & SECURITY
Time and Venue : 01:00 PM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 4617 – Prescribing the rates of pay and allowances for officers and enlisted personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) while on overseas duty with a Philippine expeditionary or peacekeeping contingent pursuant to a Philippine cooperative commitment to a United Nation’s (UN) sanction or policy (Rep. Rodolfo Biazon)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECOLOGY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 3 & 4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION jt w/ NATURAL RESOURCES and JUSTICE
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
HEALTH
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:
MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 592 – Directing the retention of barangay nutrition scholars in service to help pursue the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (Rep. Angelo Palmones)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PUBLIC ORDER & SAFETY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rm. 11 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
REFORESTATION
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 9 & 10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION
Time and Venue : 02:00 PM / Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
TUESDAY, 31-MAY-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
BASIC EDUCATION & CULTURE
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 1753 - Creating a national career assessment examination to institutionalize a career direction program for secondary graduates, defining its scope and functions (Rep. Salvador Escudero III)
HBs 863, 1588, 2213, 2457, 2493, 2597, 2777, 3679 & 3706 – Establishing national high schools in certain parts of the country and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Tupay Loong, Eduardo Gullas, Maria Evita Arago, Nelson Dayanghirang, Antonio Alvarez, Mark Llandro Mendoza, Ramon Durano VI, Sergio Apostol and Ma. Victoria Sy-Alvarado)
HBs 2348, 2365, 2452, 2517, 2589, 2637, 2641, 2669, 3117, 3126, 3378, 3682 & 4007 – Separating and converting national high schools into independent national high schools in certain parts of the country and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Eleandro Jesus Madrona, Guillermo Romarate Jr., Seth Frederick Jalosjos, Jonathan Cabilao Yambao, Paolo Javier, Anthony Rolando Golez Jr., Philip Pichay, Florencio Miraflores, Isidro Rodriguez Jr., Deputy Speaker Jesus Crispin Remulla, Reps. Wilfrido Mark Enverga, Jesus Emmanuel Paras, Florencio Flores Jr.)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT ENTERPRISES jt. w/ TRANSPORTATION
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 3 & 4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 172 – Investigation into the proposed Metro Rail Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT) fare hikes (Rep. Teddy Casiño)
HR 520 – Inquiry into the propriety of the looming MRT and LRT fare hikes ostensibly to fund the rising cost of operations and maintenance of these systems amidst widespread allegations of corruption attending their management and operations (Rep. Magtanggol Gunigundo I)
HR 712 – Inquiry into the ownership of the MRT 3 (Rep. Jeci Lapus)
HR 809 – Investigation into the impact of the proposed MRT and LRT fare hike on the commuting public and recommend a moratorium on such fare hikes pending the recommendations and findings of the House of Representatives (Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
HEALTH (CANCELLED)
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 9 & 10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 42, 2816, 2820, 3341, 3342, 3523, 3524, 3672, 3770, 3771 & 3863 – Creating and establishing additional branches of the Regional Trial Court, Metropolitan Trial Court and Municipal Trial Court in various provinces, cities and municipalities, amending for the purpose BP 129, otherwise known as the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980, as amended and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Pedro Acharon Jr., Nancy Catamco, Joaquin Carlos Rahman Nava, Sigfrido Tinga, Lani Mercado-Revilla, Mercedes Alvarez, Deputy Speaker Raul Daza, Reps. Gabriel Luis Quisumbing, Arturo Radaza and Mark Villar)
HB 2410 – Creating a division of the Court of Appeals for cases coming from the Cordillera Autonomous Region and the first Judicial Region, amending for the purpose BP 129, as amended (Rep. Bernardo Vergara)
HB 2821 – Establishing a separate Municipal Circuit Trial Court comprising the municipalities of Buenavista and San Lorenzo in the Province of Guimaras and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Joaquin Carlos Rahman Nava)
Substitute Bill to HBs 753 & 2158 – Terrorist Financing Suppression Act of 2011 (Reps. Rodolfo Antonino and Karlo Alexei Nograles)
HBs 197 & 4619 – Providing for the modernization of the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) and providing funds therefor (Reps. Roilo Golez and Rodolfo Biazon)
HB 712 – Creating a BuCor Technical Institute (BCTI) within the New Bilibid Prisons (NBP) Reservation and the Correctional Institution for Women and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HB 3309 – Strengthening the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Roger Mercado)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATURAL RESOURCES
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 7 & 8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 3432 - Excluding certain parcels of land of the public domain, located in Western Bicutan, Taguig City from the operation of Proclamation 208 issued on May 28, 1967, declaring the same alienable and disposable and authorizing the subdivision and disposition thereof in favor of qualified residents in accordance with RA 274 (Rep. Sigfrido Tinga)
HR 226 - Directing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to conduct a review and investigation on 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:
NORTH LUZON GROWTH QUADRANGLE
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rm. 5 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Briefing by the Department of Education (DepEd) on the 2012 budget allocations for DepEd Regions I and II and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), particularly for school buildings/classrooms, chairs, desks and books
Briefing by the Department of Health (DOH) on DOH-CAR facilities and other concerns
Informal discussion on the draft bill creating the North Philippines Development Authority
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Substitute Bill to HB 4374 – Strengthening nation-building through the institutionalization of a strategic volunteerism based multi-sectoral public-private partnership framework, in all local government units and congressional districts in the country (Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.)
Substitute Bill to HBs 2484, 2687, 3059, 2485, 3183, 3332, 3465, 3489 & 3666 – Restructuring the excise tax on alcohol and tobacco products, amending RA 9334 or the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) of 1997 (Reps. Erico Aumentado, Jocelyn Limkaichong, Hermilando Mandanas, Danilo Suarez, Eric Singson, Henedina Abad, Niel Tupas Jr. and Paolo Javier)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS (Subcommittee on Oversight)
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / R. R. Andaya Hall
Agenda/Resource Person :
Motu Proprio investigation into the implementation of affixing internal revenue stamps, whether bar codes or fuson design, on each pack of cigars and cigarettes subject to excise tax
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 4053 – Requiring businesses/enterprises within ecozones to pay service fees to their host cities or municipalities, amending 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. 3 & 4 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 9 & 10 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 7 & 8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
YOUTH & SPORTS DEVELOPMENT
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Substitute Bill to HB 3164 – Institutionalizing the conduct of the Palarong Pambansa and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Alfredo ‘Albee’ Benitez)
HBs 346, 2188 & 4440 – Amending RA 6847, otherwise known as the Philippine Sports Commission Act (Reps. Danilo Suarez, Mark Aeron Sambar and Renato Unico Jr.)
MONDAY, 30-MAY-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
BANKS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 3 & 4 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:
INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / Conf. Rms. 14 & 15 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Substitute Bill to HBs 85, 167, 364, 383, 511, 1444, 2279, 3376 & 4162 – Defining cybercrime, providing for the prevention, investigation, suppression and the imposition of penalties therefor (Reps. Susan Yap, Eric Singson Jr., Marcelino Teodoro, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Juan Edgardo Angara, Carmelo Lazatin, Rufus Rodriguez and Mariano Michael Velarde Jr.)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS (Subcommittee on Non-Tax Revenues)
Time and Venue : 09:30 AM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Briefing by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) and its attached agencies on their revenue collection performance for the last five years
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRICULTURE & FOOD
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 1 & 2 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 3363 & 4625 – Strengthening the animal Industry and veterinary services in the Philippines (Reps. Salvador Escudero III and Mark Llandro Mendoza)
HB 2575 – Establishing a diagnostic laboratory to identify the diseases affecting local hogs (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HBs 4624 & 687 – Amending RA 9296, otherwise known as the Meat Inspection Code of the Philippines (Reps. Mark Llandro Mendoza and Nicanor Briones)
HB 683 – Allowing the importation of live animals, meat and meat products only from zones declared by the Office International Des Epizooties (OIE) as foot and mouth disease (FMD) freezones where vaccination is not practiced (Rep. Nicanor Briones)
HB 684 – Providing indemnification for owners whose livestock are affected by highly communicable diseases, amending for the purpose PD 914, creating the Livestock Development Council (Rep. Nicanor Briones)
HB 4291 – Amending RA 7394, otherwise known as the Consumer Act of the Philippines, by imposing stiffer penalties against any person, natural or juridical, who offers to sell or distribute, in whole or in part, adulterated meat product/s of diseased animal or an animal which has died other than by slaughter, otherwise termed as “double dead meat” (Rep. Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / Conf. Rms. 7 & 8 RVM Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on HB 4153 – Establishing the archipelagic sea lanes in the Philippine archipelagic waters, prescribing the rights and obligations of foreign ships and aircraft exercising the right of archipelagic sea lanes passage through the established archipelagic sea lanes and providing for the associated protective measures therein (Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr.)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS (Subcommittee on National Internal Revenue)
Time and Venue : 01:30 PM / R. R. Andaya Hall 2/F SW Bldg.
Agenda/Resource Person :
Executive Meeting on the draft Substitute Bill 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)