MANILA, Philippines — President Marcos has signed a total of 75 laws from Congress since the start of his administration in July 2022.
Records from the House indicated the 75 enacted laws were broken down as follows: 30 bills of national significance, along with 45 local bills, and four vetoed proposed bills, the latest of which was the Philippine National Police Reform Bill that he rejected last June.
Data also showed that out of the 12,405 total number of bills and petitions filed since 19th Congress convened in mid-2022, a total of five measures have already been ratified by the bicameral conference committee, or four national bills and one local proposed legislation.
Four pieces of legislation have been “passed by the Senate without amendments,” while a total of 742 measures “remain pending in the Senate,” or those bills that have been approved on third and final reading by the House under the leadership of Speaker Martin Romualdez.
These were broken down as follows: 221 bills with national application, two resolutions of both houses, or economic Charter change, 518 measures with local application and one joint resolution.
All in all, the total measures approved by the House reached 1,154, while those “processed” reached a total of 4,125 bills which were deliberated in 149 session days, averaging 28 bills “processed per session day.”
LEDAC priority bills
Romualdez reported to the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council last month that all of the priority measures listed by Marcos have been passed by the House of Representatives.
“The House of the People has done its homework,” he said, revealing the chamber has approved on third and final reading last March, or three months ahead of schedule, all of the 20 priority LEDAC measures targeted for passage by the end of June 2024.
Romualdez said the chamber that he leads is just now awaiting Senate action on several of the priority legislative proposals of the President and the LEDAC.