Over 200 bills swiftly clogged the House of Representatives docket of legislative measures on the first working day of congressmen belonging to the 18th Congress.
Over 200 bills swiftly clogged the House of Representatives docket of legislative measures on the first working day of congressmen belonging to the 18Majority of the bills are re-filed measures that either did not pass committee approval or on second or third reading stages of approval during the 17Cebu Rep. Raul Del Mar filed the first four bills but were officially listed in the legislative docket as House Bills Nos. 11, 12, 13 and 14.
Del Mar’s HB 12, “Freedom of Information Act,” seeks to provide citizens access to official records, documents, and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions or decisions, and government research data used as basis for policy development. Romero, president of the Party-list Coalition Foundation, Inc., said he expects more than 100 of his colleagues in the House of Representatives to co-author the measure that will be known “The Eddie Garcia Law.”
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