Senate of the Philippines | INQUIRER FILES
MANILA, Philippines — In time for the resumption of the Senate regular sessions, the upper chamber on Monday approved on final reading a bill mandating the creation of a “Tatak Pinoy Council” that would be responsible for formulating the country’s “Tatak Pinoy Strategy.”
Senate Bill No (SBN) 2426, otherwise known as the Tatak Pinoy (Proudly Filipino) Act was approved with 23 affirmative, zero abstentions, and zero negative votes.
The bill is among the priority measures named by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
Senator Sonny Angara, author of the bill, earlier explained that the measure seeks to promote the production and offering of Philippine products and services of increasing diversity by domestic enterprises that are globally competitive.
Once the bill is signed into law, the creation of a Tatay Pinoy Council will be pushed. This group will serve as the policy and advisory body to the President.
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It will also be tasked to formulate policies and programs that will “diversify the productive capabilities of domestic enterprises and increase the country’s economic complexity.”
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Among its tasks include the establishment of a Tatak Pinoy Strategy that would expand the “productive capabilities of domestic enterprises and empower them to produce and offer increasingly diverse and sophisticated products and serves, and compete in the global market.”
Other measures approved
SBN 2426 was not the only measure approved on third and final reading during Monday’s plenary session.
The following House bills were also greenlighted by the Senators:
- House Bill No (HBN) 606, an act renaming the Bohol Island Circumferential Road in the City of Tagbilaran as President Carlos P. Garcia Circumferential Road
- HBN 6694, an act renaming the Tambacan Bridge in the City of Iligan in Northern Mindanao as the Mariano Lluch Badelles Sr. Bridge
- HBN 6688, an act renaming Urdaneta City Bypass Road in the Province of Pangasinan to Ambassador Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. Avenue
- HBN 7126, an act renaming the national highway in the municipality of Siruma in the province of Camarines Sur as Speaker Arnulfo “Noli” Fuentabella Highway