Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa on Tuesday cited three key reasons to justify amending the law giving reparations to victims of the 2017 Marawi siege, despite the law’s being relatively new.
Republic Act 11696, intended to give reparation to the Marawi siege in the form of compensation, was enacted on April 13, 2022. “Though RA 11696 is stable, it cannot afford to stand still,” said dela Rosa, paraphrasing legal scholar and educator, Roscoe Pound.
Presiding at a hearing on Senate Bill 2828 that aims to address the gaps left by RA 11696, dela Rosa expressed hope that “with the help of all the resource persons present, your Special Committee on Marawi Rehabilitation and Victims’ Compensation may now formulate a proposal that renders the existing legislation more stable than before.”
“There’s probably nothing wrong if another new hospital is built. So we are not just talking here of reconstructing and rehabilitating a hospital structure that was destroyed, but putting up an entirely new hospital,” Tolentino said.
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