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Six priority measures are also just now awaiting President Marcos’ signature, while more than two dozen bills fail to hurdle the 19th Congress and will have to be refiled in the 20th Congress
More than half of the total number of priority legislative measures of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. have lapsed or been signed into law in the first three years of his administration.
This is equivalent to 33 out of 64 LEDAC (Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council) bills, based on Rappler’s tally.
The bills passed into law are as follows:
Remaining pet bills back to square one
Meanwhile, more than two dozen other bills failed to hurdle the 19th Congress, which means that these measures have to be refiled at the start of the 20th Congress.
Among the original pet bills mentioned by Marcos in his very first State of the Nation Address (SONA) but did not pass Congress are the land use bill, the military pension reform, and budget modernization bill.
Here is the full list of pet bills that are back to square one in the next Congress.
- Amendments to the Bank Deposits Secrecy Law
- Amendments to the Cooperative Code
- Amendments to the Fisheries Code
- Amendments to the Right-of-Way Act
- Blue Economy Act
- Comprehensive Infrastructure Development Master Plan
- Department of Water Resources
- Eastern Visayas Development Authority
- Government Financial Institutions (GFIs) Unified Initiatives to Distressed Enterprises for Economic Recovery (GUIDE) Bill
- Leyte Ecological Industrial Zone
- Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers
- Mandatory Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and National Service Training Program (NSTP)
- National Disease Prevention and Management Authority
- National Land Use Act
- New Government Auditing Code
- Amendments to the Philippine Immigration Act
- Single-use Plastic Bags Tax Act
- Amendments to the Universal Health Care Law
- Unified System of Separation, Retirement and Pension of Military and Uniformed Personnel
- Waste-to-Energy Bill
- Health Emergency Auxiliary Reinforcement Team (HEART) Act
- Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act
- National Defense Act
- Budget Modernization Bill
- Amendments to the Agrarian Reform Law
Awaiting President’s signature
Six bills have been ratified at the bicameral level, namely:
- Government Optimization Bill (formerly rightsizing program)
- E-Governance Act
- Virology Institute of the Philippines
- Open Access in Data Transmission Act (Konektadong Pinoy)
- Amendments to Investors’ Lease Act
- Rationalization of Mining Fiscal Regime
LEDAC had listed the six as measures that the administration wanted passed before the start of the new Congress.
Marcos still has 30 days from the day the bills were ratified by Congress in mid-June to either sign them, allow them to lapse into law, or veto the proposals.
Signing the bills into law will give the President additional accomplishments to highlight for his SONA on July 28. – with reports from LA Agustin/Rappler.com
LA Agustin is a journalism and a pre-law student from Bulacan State University. She is currently an intern for Rappler.
