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28-NOVEMBER-2023 • TUESDAY
Committee/Sub-CommitteeTime and Venue
WAYS AND MEANS
Agenda		09:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at the R. R. Andaya Hall, 2/F Main Bldg. (To be livestreamed on the official Facebook page of the HRep)
Committee Report on and Substitute Bill to HBs 376, 2270, 4338, 6450, 8049, 8670, 9043 & 9442 – Amending RA 8794 or the law imposing a motor vehicle user's charge on owners of all types of motor vehicles, as amended by RA 11239 (by renaming the Motor Vehicle User's Charge to Motor Vehicle User's Tax and increasing the rates thereof to fund the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program) (Reps. Joey Sarte Salceda, Luis Raymund ‘LRay’ Villafuerte Jr., Angelo Marcos Barba, Ramon Rodrigo Gutierrez, Midy Cua, Gus Tambunting, Ralph Wendel Tulfo, and Joseph Gilbert Violago)

Committee Report on and Substitute Bill to HBs 2823, 5310, 7179, 7336, 7403, 7530 & 7699 – Providing the Magna Carta for Taxpayers (Deputy Speaker Ralph Recto, Reps. Gus Tambunting, Dante Garcia, Eric Martinez, Loreto Acharon, Peter Miguel, and Wilfrido Mark Enverga)

Substitute Bill to HBs 7356 & 7757 - Providing for the regulation of the organization and operation of community groups also known as paluwagan (Rep. Virgilio Lacson)

Substitute Bill to HB 9450 – Providing for the Revised Cooperative Code of the Philippines (Rep. Nicanor Briones)

HR 1437 - Inquiry into the reported inspection of a warehouse in Valenzuela City which led to the discovery of P1.428 billion worth of allegedly illegal electronic cigarettes bearing the mark "Flava" with the end in view of abating the proliferation of illicit trade by introducing remedial legislation as may be necessary (Rep. Rufus Rodriguez)
NORTH LUZON GROWTH QUADRANGLE
Agenda		09:30 AM
Face-face meeting at the Spkr. Belmonte Hall, 1/F SWA Bldg.
Briefing by the Department of Public Works and Highways on its plans and programs for Regions I & II and the Cordillera Administrative Region for FY 2024
ENERGY
Agenda		10:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
HBs 4205 & 9535 – Creating the Philippine Renewable Energy Corporation, defining its powers and functions, and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Maria Rachel Arenas)
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Agenda		10:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
HBs 840, 1824 & 6288 – Rationalizing the income and land area requirements for the creation of a province, municipality, and the declaration of highly urbanized status in the case of component cities, amending for the purpose RA 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991 (Reps. Christian Tell Yap, Francisco Jose 'Bingo' Matugas II, and Pablo John Garcia)

HB 7886 – Creating barangay police units, thereby establishing police stations at the barangay level, amending for the purpose Section 25 of RA 6975, as amended, otherwise known as the Department of the Interior and Local Government Act of 1990 (Rep. Nelson Dayanghirang)

HB 9400 – Creating the Barangay Affairs and Development Commission, defining its powers and functions, establishing the Barangay Development Fund, and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Rodante Marcoleta)

HR 1289 – Explaining the apparent inapplicability of Section 23 (c) (4) of RA 11689, otherwise known as the Revised Charter of the City of Baguio, citing Section 56 of RA 7160, as amended, to the City of Baguio (Rep. Mark Go)
SOCIAL SERVICES
Agenda		10:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at the Bids and Awards Committee Conf. Rm, SWA Bldg.
On the establishment of a comprehensive system for the registration and licensing of social welfare and development agencies:

• Initial consideration of HBs 8936 & 9024 – Establishing a comprehensive system for the registration and licensing of social welfare and development agencies and accreditation of social welfare and development programs and services, and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Gus Tambunting)

• Technical Working Group Report on HBs 1328, 6105 & 7308 – Establishing a comprehensive system for the registration and licensing of social welfare and development agencies and accreditation of social welfare and development programs and services and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Felimon Espares, Patrick Michael Vargas, and Rosanna ‘Ria’ Vergara)

• Consideration and approval of the Substitute Bill to HBs 1328, 6105, 7308, 8936 & 9024, and the corresponding Committee Report

On the Food Stamp Program of the government:

• HB 8532 – Providing for a comprehensive Food Stamp Program to aid all poor households in the country (Rep. Michael Romero, Ph.D.); and

• HB 8899 – Strengthening the Food Stamp Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Dante Garcia)
RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Technical Working Group)
Agenda		01:00 PM
Face-to-face meeting at Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg.
Technical Working Group meeting on HBs 262, 3566, 5981, 7114 & 7995 – Institutionalizing the convergence strategy for sustainable rural development and providing the implementing mechanisms therefor (Reps. Christian Tell Yap, Wilfrido Mark Enverga, Dante Garcia, Francisco ‘Kiko’ Benitez, and Midy Cua)
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SENIOR CITIZENS AND SENATE COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL JUSTICE, WELFARE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT (Conference Committee) - CANCELLED
Agenda		02:00 PM
Face-to-face meeting at the Sen. Padilla Room, 2/F, Senate of the Philippines
Conference Committee meeting on the disagreeing provisions of HB 7535 – Granting additional benefits to Filipino centenarians, recognizing octogenarians and nonagenarians, and appropriating funds therefor, amending for the purpose RA 10868, otherwise known as the Centenarians Act of 2016 (Rep. Rodolfo ‘Ompong’ Ordanes); and SBN 2028 – Expanding the coverage of the Centenarians Act of 2016, amending for the purpose RA 10868, and providing funds therefor (Sen. Ramon Bong Revilla Jr.)
29-NOVEMBER-2023 • WEDNESDAY
Committee/Sub-CommitteeTime and Venue
CREATIVE INDUSTRIES (Technical Working Group)
Agenda		09:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at Conf. Rm. 6 RVM Bldg.
Technical Working Group meeting on HB 1283 – Strengthening the protection of artists against forgery, amending for the purpose RA 9105, otherwise known as the Art Forgery Act of 2001 (Rep. Christopher De Venecia)
NORTH LUZON GROWTH QUADRANGLE
Agenda		09:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at the Spkr. Nograles Hall, 1/F SWA Bldg. (To be livestreamed on the official Facebook page of the HRep)
Update by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation on the payment of pending claims to healthcare institutions in Regions I & II and the Cordillera Administrative Region

Update by the Social Security System on the implementation of plans, programs and activities in Regions I & II and the CAR
REFORESTATION
Agenda		09:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at the Spkr. Villar Hall, 1/F SWA Bldg.
• Deliberation on the following bills:

HBs 1163, 4203 & 5474 – Promoting reforestation and increasing wood production through the establishment of Tree Growing Agreements (Reps. Joey Sarte Salceda, Rufus Rodriguez, and Ernesto Dionisio Jr.)

• Briefing by the Foundation for Economic Freedom on the Tree Growing Agreements Act
TRANSPORTATION (Technical Working Group)
Agenda		09:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at Conf. Rms. 5 RVM Bldg.
Technical Working Group meeting on:

HBs 1552 & 4928 – Providing for the establishment of Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) flight standards inspectorate centers in Visayas and Mindanao, amending for the purpose RA 9497, otherwise known as the Civil Aviation Authority Act of 2008 (Reps. Jose Ma. Zubiri Jr. and Paolo Duterte)

HB 6774 – Amending RA 9497, separating the regulatory and commercial functions of the CAAP (Rep. Gus Tambunting)

HBs 7438 & 8096 – Strengthening the CAAP, amending for the purpose RA 9497 (Reps. Rufus Rodriguez and Luis Raymund 'LRay' Villafuerte Jr.)

HB 5002 – Providing for developmental funding for the CAAP, to foster upgrades with regards to its standards, systems, and procedures prescribed for civil aviation practices (Rep. Michael Romero, Ph.D.)
DANGEROUS DRUGS jt. w/ HEALTH (Technical Working Group)
Agenda		09:30 AM
Face-to-face meeting at the Spkrs. Aquino/Makalintal Hall, 2/F SWA Bldg.
Technical Working Group meeting on:

HBs 241, 2007, 4638, 4866 & 7817 – Providing right of access to medical cannabis as a compassionate alternative means of medical treatment, expanding research into its medicinal properties (Deputy Speaker Antonio ‘Tonypet’ Albano, Reps. Ray Florence Reyes, David ‘Jay-Jay’ Suarez, Midy Cua, and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo)

HBs 243, 6783 & 7616 – Removing cannabis and any form or derivative thereof cultivated, cultured, used, sold, distributed, or dispensed exclusively for medicinal and medical research purposes from the list of dangerous drugs and substances under existing laws, amending for the purpose RA 9165, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, as amended (Deputy Speaker Antonio 'Tonypet' Albano, Reps. Pantaleon Alvarez and Midy Cua)

HB 4208 – Establishing the Philippine Cannabis Development Authority, defining its powers and functions, appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Luis Raymund ‘LRay’ Villafuerte Jr.)
JUSTICE jt. w/ HUMAN RIGHTS
Agenda		09:30 AM
Face-to-face meeting at the R. R. Andaya Hall, 2/F Main Bldg. (To be livestreamed on the official Facebook page of the HRep)
HR 1393 – Urging the Philippine government to cooperate with the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the alleged crime against humanity committed in the Duterte administration’s bloody war on drugs campaign (Rep. France Castro)

HRs 1477 & 1482 – Urging the appropriate Philippine government departments and agencies to extend their full cooperation to the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC with respect to its investigation of any alleged crime within the jurisdiction of the ICC, including but not limited to the crime against humanity of murder committed in the Philippines in the context of the so-called 'war on drugs' campaign (Reps. Bienvenido Abante Jr. and Edcel Lagman)
OVERSEAS WORKERS AFFAIRS
Agenda		09:30 AM
Face-to-face meeting at Conf. Rms. 3&4 RVM Bldg. (To be livestreamed on the official Facebook page of the HRep)
Substitute Bill to HBs 370 & 8560 – Institutionalizing mechanisms for the protection and welfare of left-behind minor children and families of overseas Filipino workers (Rep. Marissa ‘Del Mar’ Magsino)

HB 8951 – Instituting the Magna Carta of Filipino Migrant Workers (Rep. Ron Salo)
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (Technical Working Group)
Agenda		12:30 PM
Face-to-face meeting at the Spkr. De Venecia Hall, 1/F SWA Bldg.
Technical Working Group meeting on HBs 954, 1429, 2300, 2994, 6390, 8156, 8758 & 9258 – Strengthening the National Housing Authority (NHA), extending its corporate term, amending for the purpose PD 757 or the law creating the NHA (Reps. Sandro Gonzalez, Ma. Victoria Co-Pilar, Khymer Adan Olaso, Ivan Howard Guintu, Rufus Rodriguez, Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, and Rep. Luis Raymund ‘LRay’ Villafuerte Jr.)
NATURAL RESOURCES
Agenda		01:00 PM
Face-face meeting at the Spkr. Belmonte Hall, 1/F SWA Bldg.
HB 5055 – Declaring the Kaliwa River Forest and Wildlife Sanctuary in the Municipalities of Tanay, Rizal and General Nakar, Quezon, for its sustained management and protection, as a protected area under the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) of the Republic of the Philippines pursuant to the NIPAS Act of 1992, as amended by the Expanded NIPAS Act of 2018 (Rep. Emigdio Tanjuatco III)

HB 5893 – Reclassifying Brgy. Caloocan, Dipaculao, Aurora from timberland/agricultural land to alienable and disposable land (Rep. Rommel Rico Angara)

HB 5976 – Establishing the forestland boundary of the Mountain Province (Rep. Maximo Dalog Jr.)

HB 6133 – Declaring Bulabog–Putian National Park located in the Municipalities of Dingle and San Enrique in the Province of Iloilo, a protected area with the category of natural park to be named as Bulabog–Putian Natural Park under the NIPAS, providing for its management, and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Ferjenel Biron)

HB 6963 – Declaring the Cabadbaran River Watershed Forest Reserve as a protected area with the category of protected landscape under the NIPAS, to be known as the Cabadbaran Santiago Protected Landscape, providing for its management and administration, and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Dale Corvera)

HBs 7958, 8010, 8066, 8164, 8401 & 8533 – Reclassifying parcels of land of the public domain located in certain barangays in the City of General Santos as alienable and disposable lands open to disposition for agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial, and for other purposes (Rep. Loreto Acharon)

HB 9306 – Declaring certain parcels of land occupied by educational institutions within the Welfareville Property located in Mandaluyong City as exempt from any sale or disposition, amending for the purpose RA 5260, or the law authorizing a Committee composed of the Administrator of the Social Welfare Administration, the Auditor General and the Secretary of the Department of General Services to sell the Welfareville Property located in the Municipality of Mandaluyong, Province of Rizal (Rep. Neptali Gonzales II)

HB 9428 – Declaring as alienable and disposable certain parcels of land of the public domain located in the City of Baguio for disposition to actual and qualified applicants, thereby excluding the said lands from the coverage of RA 7227 and Proclamation No. 420 series of 1994 which transferred John Hay Air Station to BCDA (Rep. Mark Go)
SUBCOMMITTEE ON AMENDMENTS TO SPECIAL LAWS (Revision of Laws)
Agenda		01:00 PM
Face-to-face meeting at the Spkr. Nograles Hall, 1/F SWA Bldg.
Substitute Bill to HBs 9548 & 166 – Revised Government Auditing Code of the Philippines (Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez and Rep. Rodante Marcoleta)
30-NOVEMBER-2023 • THURSDAY
Committee/Sub-CommitteeTime and Venue
TRANSPORTATION
Agenda		09:00 AM
Face-to-face meeting at the R. R. Andaya Hall, 2/F Main Bldg. (To be livestreamed on the official Facebook page of the HRep)
Substitute Bill to HB 3366 – Fair Traffic Apprehension Act (Rep. Bonifacio Bosita)

HBs 8416, 8545, 8607, 8644 & 9148 – Upgrading/converting the Land Transportation Office (LTO) district/extension offices in certain parts of the country, and appropriating funds therefor (Reps. Dante Garcia, Mark Go, Marie Bernadette Escudero, Fernando Cabredo, and Arthur Celeste)

HB 8523 – Establishing an extension office of the LTO in the Municipality of San Pascual, Province of Batangas, and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Gerville ‘Jinky Bitrics’ Luistro)

HB 8575 - Providing for the conversion of the LTO extension office in the Municipality of Buug, Province of Zamboanga Sibugay to be known as the LTO District Office of Buug, Zamboanga Sibugay, and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Wilter Palma)

HB 9031 – Establishing a Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Office in the Province of Bohol and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Edgar Chatto)

HB 9136 – Establishing a LTFRB Office in the City of Olongapo, Province of Zambales, and appropriating funds therefor (Rep. Jefferson Khonghun)

HR 1443 – Inquiry into the propriety and legality of impounding motor vehicles (Rep. Bonifacio Bosita)

Privilege Speech delivered on the floor on November 7, 2023 – On the improper enforcement of traffic laws and ordinances of concerned government agencies and local government units that lead to corruption and abuse affecting drivers and vehicle owners (Rep. Bonifacio Bosita)
LEGISLATIVE FRANCHISES
Agenda		01:00 PM
Face-face meeting at the Spkr. Belmonte Hall, 1/F SWA Bldg. (To be livestreamed on the official Facebook page of the HRep)
HR 230 – Condemning the fake news peddling and baseless red-tagging of individuals, groups, and organizations by the Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI), thereby endangering their lives and democratic rights, and urging the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to apprise the House of Representatives of the status of the complaints against SMNI pending before it (Rep. France Castro)

HR 1428 – Condemning the fake news peddling, baseless red-tagging, and grave threats against Act Teachers Party-List Rep. France I. Castro by Rodrigo Roa Duterte and SMNI, and urging the NTC to investigate the incident in light of media and journalism standards and existing laws (Rep. Arlene Brosas)

Privilege Speech delivered on the floor on November 28, 2023 –On fake news peddling of SMNI against Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez (Rep. David ‘Jay-Jay’ Suarez)

Last Updated: 29-November-2023, 12:01:23 PM

 
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