Senators will tackle 30 bills when session resumes on Monday, May 23, 2013, or about two weeks before the end of the 16th Congress. FILE PHOTO
Close to 30 bills are up for approval on third and final reading as Congress resumes this Monday after a three-month long break.
The Senate agenda released by the office of Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano listed 28 bills for third and final reading while four other are scheduled for second reading.
Among the bills up for third and final reading are Senate Bill (SB) 29 or “An act prohibiting the discrimination on the employment of any individual on the basis merely of age,” and SB 2794 entitled “An act providing for a new anti-carnapping law of the Philippines.”
Also up for third reading are SB 3209 entitled “An act creating providing stronger measures against unlawful practices, businesses, and schemes of matching and offering Filipinos to foreign nationals for purposes of marriage or common law partnership repealing for the purpose of Republic Act No. 6955 also referred to as the “Anti-mail order bride law,” and House Bill 6313 or “An act amending and extending for 25 years the franchise granted to Smart Communications Inc.,” among others.
The Senate is also set to adopt Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 10 providing for the Senate and the House of Representatives to hold a joint public session to canvass the votes cast for President and Vice President during the May 9 elections and to proclaim the winners thereafter.
Outgoing Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., who ran for vice president in the last elections, will also deliver a privilege speech at the Senate this Monday.
On Wednesday, the Commission on Appointments’ committee on constitutional commissions and offices will convene at 10 a.m. to deliberate on the ad interim appointments of three Commissioners — Sheriff Abas of the Commission on Elections, Isabel Dasalla-Agito of the Commission on Audit, and Nieves Osotio of the Civil Service Commission.
The 16th Congress, which began on July 22, 2016, will adjourn sine die its third and last regular session on June 10, 2016.
The 17th Congress will open on July 25, 2016./rga