Bills passed into law:
Anti-Torture law (RA 9745)
Rent Control Act of 2009 (RA 9635)
Tax Relief for Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2008 (RA 9504)
Public Attorney's Office Act of 2006 (RA 9406)
Abolition of Death Penalty (RA 9346)
Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003 (RA 9189)
Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA 9173)
Total bills filed: 88
14th Congress = 38
13th Congress = 29
12th Congress = 21
Total resolutions filed: 323
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COMMITTEES
14th Congress
Deputy Minority Leader
Member, Committee on Rules
Ex-officio member of all House committees
13th Congress
Chair, Committee on Peace, Unity and Reconciliation others
12th Congress
Member, Committee on Human Rights
Member, Suffrage and Electoral Reforms
others
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14th Congress Bills by Category
*those with links lead to the consolidated bill approved on third reading by the House of Representatives
HUMAN RIGHTS
1. Repeal of RA 9372 or the Human Security Act
2. Martial Law Victims Compensation Act
3. Anti-Enforced Disappearance Act
4. National Day of Remembrance Act (in memory of the martyrs of the martial law era)
5. Anti-torture Act (now RA 9745)
6. Human Rights Clearance Act
7. Act Defining Certain Rights of Human Rights Defenders
EDUCATION
1. Child Nutrition Law of 2007
2. National Teachers’ Day Act
APPROPRATIONS
1. Act Repealing the Automatic Appropriation for Debt Service
FREEDOM
1. Freedom of Information Act
2. Freedom of Expression Act
3. An Act Decriminalizing Libel
4. Act Providing Grounds and Procedure to Restrict Right to Travel WOMEN and CHILDREN’S RIGHTS
1. Amending Famiy Code, Granting the Right to Remarry after Spouse obtains Divorce
2. Act Amending the Family Code of the Philippines (re Marriage License)
3. Act Amending the Revised Penal Code
AGRICULTURE
1. GMO-Free Food and Agriculture Act
2. Rice Industry Development Act
SENIOR CITIZENS
1. Senior Citizens’ Act (free hospitalization)
2. Act Establishing Senior Citizens Wards
3. Act Exempting Bank Deposits of Senior Citizens from 20% Withholding Tax on Interest Income
4. National Elderly Filipino Broadcasting Day
HEALTH
1. Low Cost, Safe and Effective Medicines Act
2. Health Workers Day Act
LABOR
1. Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipino Act (expanding gov’t legal services to workers in distress)
GOVERNANCE
1. Act Prohibiting President from Making Appointments to Judicial Positions during the period provided under Section 15 Article VII of the Constitution
2. An Act Prohibiting the Establishment of Political Dynasties
3. Philippine Disaster Management Act
JUSTICE
1. Anti-strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (Anti-SLAPP) Act
2. Command Responsibility Act
3. Act Prohibiting and Penalizing Deputization of any unit of AFP or any para-military groups for Law Enforcement Duties in Labor and Agrarian Disputes
SUFFRAGE
1. Party-list System Act
MUSLIM/NATIONAL CULTURAL COMMUNITIES
1. Ethnic Origin Act
2. Act Declaring March 6 as Bud Dahu Day (Commemorating the Bangsamoro People’s resistance to foreign occupation)
SYMBOLIC
1. Act Renaming Don Mariano Marcos Avenue in QC to Senator Lorenzo Tanada Avenue
2. Act Renaming the Alabang-Zapote Road in Las Pinas City to General Edilberto Ecangelista Avenue
3. Act Declaring July 7 as Working Holiday to Commemorate Founding of Katipunan
