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WEDNESDAY, 10-NOVEMBER-2010
- Committee/SubCommittee:
HEALTH
Time and Venue : 09:00 AM / RVM Bldg. Conf. Rms. 9 & 10
Agenda/Resource Person :
HBs 505, 907, & 974 – Requiring all government-issued identification cards, certificates and licenses to include a portion indicating the blood type of the holder and providing penalties for violations thereof (Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara, Susan Yap and Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco)
HBs 610 & 2846 – Regulating the use of government ambulances, providing penalties therefor (Reps. Juan Edgardo Angara and Joseph Victor Ejercito)
HBs 107 & 1029 – Providing for mandatory Hepatitis B vaccination of all infants within a reasonable period of time after birth and other vaccine-preventable diseases (Reps. Joseph Emilio Abaya and Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco)
HB 83 – Amending PD 996, as amended (Rep. Susan Yap)
HB 988 – Declaring the month of February of every year as Liver Cancer and Hepatitis B Awareness and Prevention Month (Rep. Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco)
HBs 960 & 1270 – Establishing trans fat labeling requirements on food product labels and banning harmful trans fats in food (Rep. Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco)
HB 950 – Mandating ocular prophylaxis on newborns (Rep. Philip Pichay)
HB 78 – Establishing the Mariveles District Hospital in the Province of Bataan and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Albert Raymond Garcia)
HB 103 – Converting the Western Visayas Medical Center into a government-owned and controlled hospital corporation with the San Joaquin Municipal Hospital as its subsidiary and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Janette Garin)
HB 253 - Providing for the upgrade and modernization of the J.R. Borja City Memorial Hospital as an extension hospital of the Northern Mindanao Medical Center in Cagayan de Oro City, Province of Misamis Oriental, and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
HB 425 –Increasing the minimum bed capacity of the Zamboanga City Medical Center from 250 to 500, amending for the purpose Sec. 2 of RA 7272 (Rep. Erico Basilio Fabian)
HB 884 – Converting the Western Visayas Sanitarium and Leprosarium in the Sta. Barbara, Iloilo into the President Diosdado Macapagal Memorial Hospital and Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, defining its powers and functions, appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco)
HB 1024 – Providing for the upgrade and modernization as well as increasing the bed capacity of Severo Verallo Memorial District Hospital at Taytayan, City of Bogo, Province of Cebu, from 50 to 100 bed capacity and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Benhur Salimbangon)
HB 1168 – Converting the Siargao District Hospital at Dapa Siargao Island, Surigao Del Norte into an annex of the Caraga Regional Hospital in Surigao City and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Francisco ‘Lalo’ Matugas)
HB 1490 – Converting the Calbayog City District Hospital as an extension of the Eastern Visayas Regional Medical Center in Tacloban City and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Mel Senen Sarmiento)
HB 1611 – Amending RA 6435, changing the name of San Marcelino Emergency Hospital (Mayor Leopoldo F. Rabanes Memorial Hospital) in San Marcelino, Zambales, to Miguela P. Magsaysay Hospital (Rep. Maria Milagros Magsaysay)
HB 1272 – Prohibiting the detention of live or dead patients in hospitals and medical clinics on grounds of non-payment of hospital bills or medical expenses (Rep. Augusto ‘Boboy’ Syjuco)
HB 2055 – Prohibiting the practice of withholding the discharge of indigent patients who fail to pay hospital or medical bills incurred due to emergency treatment and support, amending for the purpose, Sec. 3 of Batas Pambansa 702, as amended by RA 8344 (Rep. Ma. Amelita Calimbas-Villarosa)
HB 2729 – Establishing a universal newborn hearing screening program for the prevention, early diagnosis and intervention of hearing loss among children (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)