MANILA — In a comprehensive overview of legislative accomplishments, the House of Representatives under the leadership of Speaker Martin Romualdez, and the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) have showcased a remarkable array of priority measures enacted, ratified, and in progress as of January 31, 2024, by the 19th Congress.
As of January 31, 2024, the House enacted into law important bills like the LGU Income Classification, and the Ease of Paying Taxes.
It also had one Ratified Bicam bill paticulary the Tatak Pinoy (Proudly Filipino) Act while on the Bicameral Conference, the House passed the Amendments to the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act.
Working like a well-oiled machine, the House also approved on third reading thirteen (13) measures namely:
- • Excise Tax on Single-Use Plastics
- • VAT on Digital Services
- • Amendment to the Fisheries Code
- • Anti-Financial Accounts Scamming Act (AFASA)
- • Philippine Immigration Act
- • Rationalization of the Mining Fiscal Regime
- • Military and Uniformed Personnel Pension Reform Bill
- • Motor Vehicle User’s Charge/Road User’s Tax
- • Amendments to the Government Procurement Reform Act
- • Department of Water Resources and Services
- • Amendments to the Cooperative Code, and
- • New Government Auditing Code
As of January 31, 2024, the House enacted into law 11 measures as follows:
- • SIM Registration Act
- • Postponement of Barangay / SK Elections (from Dec 2022 to Oct 2023)
- • Strengthening Professionalism in the AFP
- • New Agrarian Emancipation Act
- • Maharlika Investment Fund
- • Regional Specialty Hospitals
- • National Employment Recovery Strategy (NERS) / Trabaho Para sa Bayan Act
- • LGU Income Classification
- • Internet Transaction Act / E-Commerce Law
- • Amendments to the BOT Law / PPP Bill
- • Ease of Paying Taxes
Ratified Bicam (4)
- • New Philippine Passport Act
- • Revitalizing the Salt Industry Bill
- • Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers
- • Tatak Pinoy (Proudly Filipino) Act
On Bicameral Conference (1), the House passed one important bill, particularly the Amendments to the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act.
For Bicameral Conference, there had been one from the House. This is the Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System (PENCAS).
The House also approved on Third Reading 37 measures as follows:
- • Virology Institute of the Philippines
- • Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act (PIFITA)
- • National Disease Prevention Management Authority
- • Health Emergency Auxiliary Reinforcement Team (HEART) Act
- • Waste-to-Energy Bill
- • Free Legal Assistance for Police and Soldiers
- • Apprenticeship Law
- • Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers
- • Valuation Reform Bill
- • Eastern Visayas Development Authority (EVDA)
- • Leyte Ecological Industrial Zone
- • Government Financial Institutions Unified Initiatives to
- Distressed Enterprises for Economic Recovery (GUIDE)
- • Instituting a National Citizens Service Training (NCST) Program
- • E- Government Act / E- Governance Act
- • Negros Island Region
- • National Government Rightsizing Program
- • Amendments to the Universal Health Care Act
- • Comprehensive Infrastructure Development Master Plan
- • National Land Use Act
- • Philippine Immigration Act
- • Anti-Financial Accounts Scamming Act (AFASA)
- • Amendments to the Bank Deposits Secrecy Law
- • Enabling Law for the Natural Gas Industry
- • Excise Tax on Single-Use Plastics
- • Amendments to the Fisheries Code
- • VAT on Digital Services
- • Philippine Maritime Zones Act
- • Open Access in Data Transmission Act
- • Amendments to the Right-of-Way Act
- • Military and Uniformed Personnel Pension Reform Bill
- • Rationalization of the Mining Fiscal Regime
- • Blue Economy Act
- • Amendments to the Government Procurement Reform Act
- • New Government Auditing Code
- • Department of Water Resources and Services
- • Amendments to the Cooperative Code
- • Philippine Defense Industry Development Act (PDIDA)/ Self-Reliant Defense Posture Act
Under Committee/Technical Working Group (TWG) Meeting there is one, and this is the Amendments to the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA).
For Committee Deliberation, the House has two (2) namely: the Budget Modernization Bill and the National Defense Act.
This performance report showed that the House bested the Upper Chamber, which could only deliver its best at 45 percent, 9 of 20 LEDAC priority measures passed last December 2023.
The Lower House delivered a whopping 100 % performance report on it, by mustering 20 of 20 LEDAC priority measures.
The House also edged out the Senate in other areas like the SONA Priorities or bills mentioned by President Marcos during the State of the Nation Address 2023.
The House chalked up 17 of 17 SONA Priorities even as the Senate only made 5 of 17.
