ACT Teachers Rep. France Castro has urged the Senate to prioritize the passage of its version of the measure calling for the establishment of evacuation centers nationwide amid the threats and looming effects of BettyPH. | FArgosinoINQ
Castro’s statement came after Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri announced on May 27 that the Senate is expected to approve the Maharlika Investment Fund Act on the third and final reading before the adjournment of the 19th Congress’ first regular session.
Among those consolidated was the Makabayan bloc’s Permanent Evacuation Centers in Every City and Municipality Bill or House Bill 5152, which was first filed by Bayan Muna in the 16th Congress and was approved in the third and final reading by the House of Representatives in the 18th Congress. “Even now, schools and covered courts are the ones being used for evacuation centers. This will, of course, disrupt the learning of students and these structures are most often not designed to be disaster resilient,” Castro said.
“We hope that now, Malacanang and the leadership of the Senate would heed our call to expedite the passage of a similar bill, and Malacanang should classify the bill as urgent,” the Makabayan solon added. “We would have preferred disaster-resilient permanent evacuation centers for every two or three barangays as contained in HB 5152, but this was the one agreed to, and it is still a good start.We hope that the Senate can expedite their version so that this much-needed bill can finally be passed and its implementation can still be included in the national budget for 2024 before more lives are lost due to calamities,” she furthered.
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