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WEDNESDAY, 26-JANUARY-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
HEALTH
Agenda/Resource Person :
Committee Report on HBs 590 & 870 – Establishing a program for public education on prostate cancer (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco Ph. D.)
Committee Report on HBs 592 & 1028 – Providing for a national folic acid education program to prevent birth defects (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco Ph. D.)
Committee Report on HB 3088 – Promoting breastfeeding as an essential component of family planning and responsible parenthood (Rep. Anna York Bondoc)
Committee Report on HBs 2984 & 3285 – Providing the public with adequate notice and education on the effects of exposure to mercury through health advisories posted or made readily available at all businesses that sell fresh, frozen and canned fish and seafood where the potential for mercury exposure exists (Reps. Joseph Victor Ejercito and Rufus Rodriguez)
HBs 87, 265, 367, 937, 1566, 1628, 2547 & 3544 – Ensuring that every Filipino is granted with basic healthcare services, providing for a mandatory universal healthcare coverage, amending Sec. 29 of RA 7875, otherwise known as the National Health Insurance Act of 1995 (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara, Mary Mitzi Cajayon, Susan Yap, Rufus Rodriguez, Eufranio ‘Franny’ Eriguel M.D., Joseph Victor Ejercito and Ma. Theresa Bonoan-David)
HBs 150, 210, 495, 1847, 3142, 3143, 3144, 3405 & 3499 –Requiring the mandatory coverage of accredited barangay health workers in the National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) under the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth), amending RA 7883, otherwise known as the Barangay Health Workers’ Benefits and Incentives Act of 1995 (Rep. Ben Evardone, Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara, Bernadette Herrera-Dy, Marcelino Teodoro, Maria Carmen Zamora-Apsay, George Arnaiz and Imelda Calixto-Rubiano)
HBs 961, 1267 & 1965 – Requiring the mandatory coverage of all househelpers in the NHIP under the Philhealth (Reps. Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco Ph. D. and Mark Villar)
HBs 1567 & 2099 – Granting compulsory coverage to accredited barangay health workers in the NHIP and/or the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) (Reps. Bernadette Herrera-Dy and Mark Villar)
HBs 637, 1854 & 2441 – Instituting mechanisms for the establishment of a children’s health insurance program, amending RA 7875 (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara, Marcelino Teodoro, Ignacio Arroyo Jr.)
HB 1083 – Instituting a universal health care, amending RA 7875, RA 7392 or the Philippine Midwifery Act of 1992 and RA 7600 or the Rooming-In and Breastfeeding Act of 1992 (Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy)
HBs 20, 102 & 655 – Granting additional powers to the Philhealth, amending RA 7875 (Reps. Marcelino Teodoro, Janette Garin and Juan Edgardo Angara)
HBs 1202 & 3090 – Granting additional benefits and privileges to Philhealth members, amending RA 7875 (Reps. Marcelino Teodoro and Wilfrido Mark Enverga)
HBs 1612, 2174 & 2711 – Amending RA 7875, otherwise known as the National Health Insurance Act of 1995 (Rep. Maria Milagros Magsaysay, Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III and Rep. Imelda Calixto-Rubiano)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION jt. w/ SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
METRO MANILA DEVELOPMENT
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
OVERSEAS WORKERS AFFAIRS
Agenda/Resource Person :
Committee Report on the Privilege Speech on the plight of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and human trafficking (Rep. Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao)
Inquiry into the alleged verbal abuse of an OFW by the labor attaché in Hong Kong
Report on the plight of OFWs by the Committee’s fact-finding delegation who went to Saudi Arabia on January 08-13, 2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRANSPORTATION
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 318, 788, 986, 1277, 2136 & 3445 – Regulating the use of hand-held mobile phones while driving, providing penalties for violation thereof (Reps. Susan Yap, Aurelio ‘Dong’ Gonzales Jr., Augusto ‘Boboy Syjuco Ph. D., Irwin Tieng and Ma. Theresa Bonoan-David)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PUBLIC WORKS & HIGHWAYS
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 313, 772, 1842, 3159 & 3539 – Regulating the construction, installation and maintenance of billboards (Rep. Roilo Golez, Minority Leader Edcel Lagman, Reps. Marcelino Teodoro, Leopoldo Bataoil and Angelo Palmones)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
AGRARIAN REFORM
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 654, 2124 & 3435 – Amending RA 8239, otherwise known as the Philippine Passport Act of 1996 (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara, Pedro Romualdo and Al Francis Bichara)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
GLOBALIZATION & WTO
Agenda/Resource Person :
Briefing by the Department of Trade and Industry, Bureau of International Trade Relations and World Trade Organization (WTO) Desk on the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) and Association of South East Asian Nation (ASEAN)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 333, 705, 1783, 1849 & 2666 – Amending Secs. 100, 235 & 272 of RA 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, augmenting, expanding and diversifying the uses of the Special Education Fund (Reps. Luis Villafuerte, Rufus Rodriguez, Joseph Victor Ejercito, Marcelino Teodoro and Mar-len Abigail Binay)
HB 348 – Amending RA 7160, authorizing local government units to grant tax exemption privileges for private sector infrastructure and development projects involving roads and railways that will be transferred to the government and exempting said projects from real property taxes (Rep. Danilo Suarez)
HB 1099 – Prohibiting city mayors, municipal mayors and provincial governors from making appointment two months immediately before the next local elections and pending assumption to office of their successors (Minority Leader Edcel Lagman)
HB 3794 – Reapportioning the 2nd legislative district of Quezon City, creating two new legislative districts from such reapportionment (Rep. Winston ‘Winnie’ Castelo)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATURAL RESOURCES
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 174 – Banning the catching, sale, purchase, possession, transportation and exportation of all sharks and rays in the country (Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo)
HBs 423, 560, 850, 851, 852, 3087, 3219, 3294 & 3437 – Declaring & establishing certain parts of the country as protected areas under the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) and their peripheral areas as buffer zones (Reps. Erico Basilio Fabian, Juan Edgardo Angara, Herminia Roman, Jonathan Cabilao Yambao, Alfredo Marañon III, Ben Evardone, Ma. Amelita Calimbas-Villarosa and Emil Ong)
HB 3623 – Declaring certain portions of land in Brgy. Combado, Maasim City, Southern Leyte, as alienable and disposable lands (Rep. Roger Mercado)
HB 3521 – Declaring September 26 of every year as “Save Sierra Madre Day” (Rep. Ma. Theresa Bonoan-David)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION
Agenda/Resource Person :
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)
Briefing by the Peace and Equity Foundation (PEF)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
REVISION OF LAWS
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
TUESDAY, 25-JANUARY-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
DANGEROUS DRUGS
Agenda/Resource Person :
Update by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office on the obligated funds for the anti-drug campaign of the Dangerous Drugs Board
Update by the Department of Budget and Management on the lumpsum funds of the Department of Health (DOH) for the creation of treatment and rehabilitation center
Update by the DOH on the integrated drug test operations management information system (IDTOMIS) and by the Land Transportation Office on the drug test monitoring system
- Committee/SubCommittee:
JUSTICE
Agenda/Resource Person :
Privilege Speech on the plea bargaining agreement entered into between General Carlos Garcia and the government represented by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (Rep. Roilo Golez)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATIONAL CULTURAL COMMUNITIES (CANCELLED)
Agenda/Resource Person :
(Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Agenda/Resource Person :
Briefing by the National Kidney and Transplant Institute, St. Luke’s Medical Center-Research and Biotechnology Division and Philippine Health Research Ethics Board on stem cell research
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRANSPORTATION
Agenda/Resource Person :
Inquiry into the computation of the maximum allowable gross vehicle weight per overloading provision of RA 8794, which imposes a motor vehicle user’s charge on owners of all types of motor vehicles (Rep. Randolph Ting)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
WAYS & MEANS
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 127 & 3452 – Imposing an excise tax, to be known as ‘environmental levy,’ on the use of plastic bags in shops, supermarkets, service stations, stores and/or sale outlets, creating the environmental protection support fund (Reps. Al Francis Bichara and Juan Edgardo Angara)
HB 3927 – Simplifying the availment of the gross income tax for corporations, amending Sec. 27 (A) of the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) of 1997, as amended (Rep. Hermilando Mandanas)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
Agenda/Resource Person :
Deliberation on the Constitution’s preamble, national territory, declaration of principles and state policies, citizenship, bill of rights, constitutional commissions and general provisions by the Committee’s study group no. 3 in relation to the proposals to amend the Constitution
- Committee/SubCommittee:
POVERTY ALLEVIATION
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)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
PUBLIC INFORMATION
Agenda/Resource Person :
Substitute Bill to HBs 370 & 2275 – Amending RA 53, which exempts the publisher, editor or reporter of any publication from revealing the source of published news or information obtained in confidence (Reps. Rachel Marguerite Del Mar and Rufus Rodriguez)
HR 247 – Investigation into the non-compliance of some Philippine radio stations with EO 255, requiring all radio stations with musical format programs to broadcast a minimum of four original Pilipino musical compositions in every clockhour (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
Briefing by the Optical Media Board (OMB) and Movie & Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SUFFRAGE & ELECTORAL REFORMS jt. w/ MUSLIM AFFAIRS
Agenda/Resource Person :
HB 3542 – Resetting the regular elections for elective officials of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao to coincide with the general elections to be held on the 2nd Monday of May 2013 (Rep. Pangalian Balindong)
MONDAY, 24-JANUARY-2011
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECOLOGY
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATIONAL CULTURAL COMMUNITIES
Agenda/Resource Person :
HR 771 – Investigation into the grant of mining concessions affecting the indigenous peoples (IPs) in Midsalip, Zamboanga del Sur (Rep. Teddy Brawner Baguilat Jr.)
HB 1635 – Protecting the rights of IPs affected by mining operations in ancestral domains, amending for the purpose RA 7942, otherwise known as the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 (Rep. Maximo Rodriguez Jr.)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
BANKS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 61, 458 & 2161 – Strengthening further the regulatory powers of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, amending for the purpose RA 7653, otherwise known as the New Central Bank Act (Reps. Luis Villafuerte, Juan Edgardo Angara and Karlo Alexei Nograles)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
SOCIAL SERVICES
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 privilege 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:
WAYS & MEANS
Agenda/Resource Person :
Executive Meeting on the consolidation of HBs 46, 114, 171, 572, 1694, 3055 & 3786 – Strengthening the anti-smuggling mechanism, amending for the purpose certain provisions of PD 1464, otherwise known as the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, as amended (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez, Pedro Romualdo, Eric Singson Jr., Juan Edgardo Angara, Deputy Speaker Lorenzo Tañada III, Reps. Salvador Escudero III and Edgar San Luis)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
HIGHER & TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 274 & 2466 – Instituting a program for the continuing education of college teachers, amending RA 7784, which strengthens teacher education in the Philippines by establishing centers of excellence, creating a teacher education council and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara and Nelson Dayanghirang)
HB 1876 – Establishing a student assistance program by banks and government financial institutions (Rep. Roman Romulo)
HB 3205 – Mandating the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to include labor education in the tertiary education curriculum (Rep. Raymond Mendoza)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
NATIONAL DEFENSE & SECURITY
Agenda/Resource Person :
Committee Report on HB 6 – Prescribing a fixed term for the Chief of Staff of the AFP (Rep. Rodolfo Biazon)
Committee Report on HB 9 – Amending the Administrative Code of 1987 by prohibiting a person from being appointed as the Secretary of the Department of National Defense within the next 3 years after relief, separation or retirement from active duty as a Commissioned Officer of the AFP (Rep. Rodolfo Biazon)
HCR 3 – Inquiry into the implementation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) modernization program, with focus on its objectives, prioritization in equipment acquisition, and funding requirements and sources in relation to the country’s present needs (Rep. Rodolfo Biazon)
HB 76 – Providing for the modernization of the Government Arsenal and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Albert Raymond Garcia)
HB 2112 – Authorizing the AFP to lease out some of its properties to raise funds for its modernization (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
YOUTH & SPORTS
Agenda/Resource Person :
Forum with youth leaders and participants from the Association of Political Science Students of the University of Naga, Camarines Sur
- Committee/SubCommittee:
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS jt. w/ GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
REVISION OF LAWS
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group (Agenda for confirmation by the Committee Secretariat)
- Committee/SubCommittee:
TRADE & INDUSTRY
Agenda/Resource Person :
Technical Working Group meeting on HB 1224 – Institutionalizing corporate social responsibility, providing incentives therefor (Rep. Diosdado Arroyo)