THE Senate will finally start plenary deliberations on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), Senate President Franklin Drilon said on Monday.
Drilon said a committee report on the BBL will be filed at the plenary on August 10 and it will be sponsored on the floor a day after. The interpellation, he said, would start on August 17.
“That’s the schedule of the BBL. We will not set any deadline on the interpellation, so everybody will be given a chance to review the report that will be submitted,” he told reporters after an all-senator caucus.
The BBL was one of the six priority measures that Congress wants to approve before President Benigno Aquino III steps down from office in 2016.
The other five priority measures are the proposed Freedom of Information bill, the proposed 2016 national budget, the creation of the Department of Information and Technology, the proposed amendments to the build and operate and transfer law to strengthen the private, public, partnership, and the Pagasa modernization law.
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