Your Home of Representatives will follow the Senate’s lead on the proposition to change particular financial arrangements of the 1987 Constitution, legislators stated Tuesday.
Your home handed down 3rd and last reading Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) 7, proposing these modifications.
RBH 6, which proposes the very same modifications as RBH 7, is pending in the Senate.
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On Monday, Sen. Robinhood Padilla submitted RBH 8 for Charter modification (Cha-cha) through a constitutional convention.
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On Monday, Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri stated RBH 6 was not amongst the Senate’s top priority steps before Congress adjourns in May.
“The basic regulation of our management here is that we’ll let the Senate take the lead. And if that’s how the Senate feels, then there’s truly absolutely nothing … we can do however appreciate their top priorities,” stated Lanao del Norte 1st District Rep. Mohamad Khalid Dimaporo at an interview Tuesday.
Dimaporo stated Speaker Martin Romualdez “made it extremely clear to everybody and to the country that as far as your house of Representatives is worried, we are particularly just thinking about the financial arrangements.”
“As far as the [constitutional convention proposed by Padilla] is worried and what contents there are, I believe there has actually been likewise an equivalent that has actually been submitted here in your home. We can more or less provide it to the Senate on a silver plate,” Dimaporo stated.
“They [the senators can] pick what they feel is finest for the Filipino individuals. And after that when the time comes, both your home and the Senate will interact hand in hand to provide what is finest for the Filipino individuals under the presidency of President Bongbong Marcos,” he stated.
Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta Partylist Rep. Margarita Nograles stated your home has actually extensively checked out the financial arrangements that can be altered however has however has yet to see what the Senate will do.
1-Rider Partylist Rep. Ramon Rodrigo Gutierrez stated: “I believe it’s extremely clear. Your home has actually corresponded. Whatever choice that the Senate would choose, your home is prepared to react.”
Davao Oriental 2nd District Rep. Cheeno Miguel Almario stated, “We’ve done our task, we’ve currently done whatever that we can, we’ve investigated it … and now the ball remains in their court.”
Both RBH 6 and RBH 7 cover Article XII (Section 11), Article XIV (paragraph 2 of Section 4) and Article XVI (paragraph 2 of Section 11) of the 1987 Constitution.
Both RBHs look for to include the words “unless otherwise offered by law” to these arrangements. Both likewise look for to include the word “standard” before the words “universities” in the very first sentence of paragraph 2, Section 4 of Article XIV.