Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday issued a statement after Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva made a remark that the secretariat is still “cleaning up the bill and finalizing the typographical errors" of the Maharlika Investment Fund MIF bill after it has already passed the third reading in the Senate and adopted at the House of Representatives.
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Wednesday issued a statement after Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva made a remark that the secretariat is still “cleaning up the bill and finalizing the typographical errors" of the Maharlika Investment Fund bill after it has already passed the third reading in the Senate and adopted at the House of Representatives.
According to Pimentel, changing the section numbers of the bill may be allowed but changing the words and content of the version approved on third and final reading "will amount to falsification." "At the end of the day, it has to reflect what was the essence of this particular provision, in this case Section 50 and 51 that we’re talking about," added Villanueva.
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