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CLARK FREEPORT – True to her character as a tireless worker, the House of Representatives under the one-yearterm of Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (SGMA) had passed all priority measures of President Duterte.

On June 4, SGMA, who is on her third term as representative of Pampanga’s second district, bid farewell to her colleagues in the 17th Congress in the House of Representatives.

“In the first 3 years of President Duterte’s administration, many good seeds were planted by way of executive decisions, the legislative agenda, strategic foreign engagements, and bold reforms. In the remaining years of his term, we just all need to help in the implementation to harvest the fruits of those seeds within President Duterte’s term,” Arroyo, who was former president for nine years, said.

Arroyo also praised the House for helping her with a total of 250 local and national bills from the lower chamber that were passed into law.

These include:

1. Organic law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region – passed into law

2. Coconut Farmers & Industry Development Act – vetoed by Prrd

3. Rice Tariffication Act – passed into law

4. Enhanced Universal Healthcare Act – passed into law

5. Tax Amnesty Program – passed into law

6. Revision of Constitution – pending with the senate

7. National Land Use Act – pending with the senate

8. Creation of Department of Disaster Resilience – with the Senate

9. End of Endo/Contractualization Act – up for bicam

10. TRAIN 2 – Trabaho Bill – with the senate

11. Fiscal Regime for the Mining Industry – with the senate

12. Increase on the Excise Tax on Tobacco Products – with the senate

13. Real Property Valuation and Assessment – with the senate

14. Traffic Crisis Act – with the senate

15. Reform in Capital Income and Financial Taxes – with the senate

16. Excise Tax Rates on Alcohol – with the senate

17. Lowering of Age of Criminal Liability – with the Senate

18. Mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) – passed by House

Other laws passed under SGMA:

1. Filipino ID System

2. Increasing the Monthly Old-Age Pension of Senior Veterans

3. An Act Institutionalizing Telecommuting as an Alternative Work Arrangement for Employees in the Private Sector

4. An Act Strengthening the Philippine Comprehensive Policy on HIV and AIDS prevention, treatment and management

5. Protection of Children in situations of Armed Conflict

6. An Act Creating the Department of Human Settlements and Human Development

7. Extending Maternity Leave to 105 days with pay with option to extend

8. An Act Institutionalizing a National Integrated Cancer Control Progra

9. Mandatory Philhealth coverage for PWDs

10. Institutionalizing the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program

Among the notable bills passed into law were:

1. Kasambahay Law

2. Aquaculture and Fisheries Mechanization

3. Absentee Voting Law

4. Anti-Drunk Driving Act.

5. Amendment to the Fisheries Code prohibiting trade of sharks and corals

6. Free Tuition Fee Law

7. National ID System

8. Passport Act – 10- year validity

9. Department of Housing and Urban Development

10. Simulated Birth Rectification Act

Arroyo described the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) as: “at the forefront of the game-changing legislation that we have helped enact.”

The BOL established a more independent and powerful Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

It was also under Arroyo as Speaker that the House passed a “more fiscally acceptable version” of the “draft constitution” seeking to shift the Philippines to federalism.

Published reports said with Arroyo’s stint in Congress ending, she is set to become a consultant of the provincial government of Pampanga now headed by Governor Dennis “Delta” Pineda.

She will be replaced in the in-coming 18th Congress by her son Mikey as Pampanga’s second district representative.

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