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Eleventh Congress - Tanada Bills
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TANADA AUTHORED AND CO-AUTHORED BILLS THAT BECAME LAW

RA 6682 - An Act Amending the Effectivity Clause of EO 292, dated 25 July 1987.
RA 6940 – An Act Granting the Period Ending on December 21,2000 for Filing applications for Free Patent and Judicial Confirmation of Imperfect Title to Alienable and Disposable Lands of the Public Domain under Chapter VII of the Public Land Act CA 141 (as amended)
RA 7055 – An Act Strengthening Civilian Supremacy over the Military by Returning to the Civil courts the Jurisdiction over Certain Offenses Involving members of the AFP, other Persons subject to National Police, Repealing for the Purpose Certain Presidential Decrees
RA 7075 – An Act Providing for the Development and Promotion of Campus Journalism and for other Purposes
RA 7080 – An Act Defining and Penalizing the Crime of Plunder
RA 7165 – An Act to Amend Section Fourteen of Batas Pambansa Blg. 129, known as the Judiciary Act of 1981.
RA 7636 – Repeal of the Anti-Subversion Act
RA 7655 – Pegging a Minimum Wage for Domestic Helpers
RA 7688 – Women Representatives in the Social Security Commission
RA 7696 – Veterans’ Benefits
RA 7719 – Voluntary Blood Donation
RA 7722 – Creating the Commission on Higher Education
RA 7784 – Creating a Teacher’s Education Council
RA 7796 – Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
RA 7797 – Lengthening the School Calendar from 185 days to 220 Days
RA 7832 – Penalizing the Pilferage of Electricity
RA 7835 – Integrated Shelter and Urban Development Financing Program
RA 7836 – Supervising and Regulating the Licensure and Practice of Professional Teachers
RA 7854 – Creating the City of Makati
RA 7876 – Senior Citizens Center
RA 7919 – Alien Legalization
RA 7941 – Party-List System
RA 8435 – Agricultural Modernization Act
RA 8550 – Fisheries Code
RA 8532 – Increasing the Agrarian Reform Fund
RA 8175 – Strengthening the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation
RA 8291 – Increasing the monthly pension of retired government officials and employees
RA 8291 – Omnibus GSIS Code
RA 8244 – Setting Aside P27 billion for the Salary Standardization Program
RA 8289 – Magna Carta for Small Business
RA 8185 – amends the Local Government Code to set aside 5% of their regular income for calamity relief and rehabilitation
RA 8749 – Clean Air Act
RA 8759 – Establishing a Public Employment Service Office in Every Province
RA 8751 – Providing Mechanism for Countervailing Duties on Imported Products
RA 8970 – Prohibiting the Manufacture and Sale of Laundry Detergents with Hard Surfactants

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ELEVENTH CONGRESS
TANADA BILLS

HOUSE BILL NO./ DATE OF FILING	BILL TITLE	STATUS	CO-AUTHOR/S
House Bill No. 700 06 July 1998	An Act Prohibiting an Elective Public Official from Resigning his Elective Office to Accept an Appointment to any Government Office and Providing Penalties Therefor	Pending with the Comm. on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms for 298 session days	Liban, Dante A.
House Bill No. 701 06 July 1998	An Act Amending Section 10 of Republic Act No. 6728 Otherwise Known as Government Assistance to Students and Teachers in Private Education (GASTPE)	Pending with the Comm. on Education and Culture for 298 session days	Liban, D.A., Quimpo, A.S., Aumentado, E.B.
House Bill No. 702 *Joint Author - Nantes 06 July 1998	An Act Dividing Quezon Province into Two Separate Provinces, Namely, Quezon del Norte and Quezon del Sur, Appropriating the Necessary Funds for the Required Plebiscite and the Establishment or Transfer of Provincial Capitol and other Gov’t Buildings, and for Other Purposes	First Public Hearing on 28 October 2000
House Bill No. 703 06 July 1998	An Act Prohibiting Political Turncoatism and Providing Penalties for Violations	Substitute Bill No. 7408 Waiting for Sponsorship Speech	Liban, Bunye, Aumentado, Rosales, Gonzalez, Badelles
House Bill No. 956 13 July 1998	An Act Strengthening the Philippine Coconut Authority, Increasing the Small Coconut Farmers' Participation in, and Their Benefits from the Coco-nut Industry, and Bolstering the Industry's Deve-lopment, Amending for the Purpose Presidential Decree Numbered Fourteen Hundred and Sixty-eight, as Amended, Otherwise Known as the Revised Coconut Industry Code (withdrew this bill and will push for House Bill No. 7417 instead)	x x x x x	x x x x x
House Bill No. 957 13 July 1998	An Act Designating a Regional Trial Court within the City or Province to Sit as Special Drug Court, Amending for this Purpose Article X, Section 39 of Republic Act No. 6425	Pending with the Comm. on Justice for 298 session days
House Bill No. 1533 30 July 1998	An Act Protecting the Rights to Labor of the Workers of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) as Enshrined by the 1987 Constitution Amending for the Purpose Article 3 of Presidential Decree No. 1620 and for Other Purposes	Pending with the Comm. on Labor and Employment for 296 session days	Calalay, Gullas, Banaag, Loreto-Go, Montemayor, Abayon, Liban, Echiverri, Nachura
House Bill No. 2078 11 August 1998	An Act Strengthening the Workers' Constitutional Right to Self Organization	Pending with Labor for 291 session days	Verceles, Lorenzo-Villareal, Jacob, Montemayor, Ponce, Espina, Rosales, Loreto-Go, Liban
House Bill No. 4094	An Act Providing for a National Land Use Policy that Ensures Food Security and Food Self-Sufficiency	Comm. is now in the process of drafting a Committee Report	Monfort, Floirendo, Chipeco, Singson
House Bill No. 7417 04 May 1999	An Act Strengthening Small Coconut Farmers and Farm Workers' Participation in Coconut Industry Development, Declaring and Reaffirming the Coco Levy Funds and Assets as Public Fund, Amending Therefor - as Far as Appropriate - Presidential Decree No. 1468, as Amended, and for Other Related Purposes	Pending with the Comm. on Agriculture and Food for 224 session days	Paez, Nantes, Cruz, B., Jaraula, Pilapil, Young, Unde, Sarenas, Cagas, Rosales, Libarios, Barbers, Punzalan, Vicencio, Abad, Zartiga, Rodriguez, Aquino, Magtubo, Zubiri
House Bill No. 8347 13 September 1999 (Joint Author- Rep. Montemayor)	An Act Providing Greater Protection to Local Industries Through the Imposition of Anti-Dumping Duty, Amending for the Purpose Section 301, Part 2, Title II, Book 1 of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines, as Amended by Republic Act No. 8752	Pending with the Comm. of Ways and Means for 177 session days	Nieva, Unde, Badelles
House Bill No. 8786 17 November 1999	An Act Prohibiting Discrimination Against Filipino Employees and Providing Penalties For Violations Thereof	Pending with the Comm. on Labor and Employment for 165 session days	Golez, Rosales, Bueser, Montemayor, Vergara, Unde, Badelles, Andaya M., Espina, Abaya, Liban, Alvarez
House Bill No. 9522 21 February 2000	An Act Ensuring Security of Tenure for Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Over Lands Awarded to Them Under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program, Providing Guidelines for the Cancellation of Emancipation Patents and Certificate of Land Ownership Awards, Penalties for Violations Thereof, and for Other Purposes	Scheduled for Executive Hearing	Badelles, Rosales, Abad, Montemayor, Chipeco, Abayon, Jacob
House Bill No. 10778 25 April 2000	An Act to Regulate the Carrying of Firearms, Provide Penalties for Its Violation and For Other Purposes	Already held 3 public hearing
House Bill No. 11977 09 August 2000	Ant Act Requiring the Mandatory labeling of Food and Food Products Containing Genetically-Modified Organisms and Food Produced By Genetic Engineering Technologies, Amending for that Purpose Republic Act No. 3720, Otherwise Known as the Food, Drugs and Drug Devices and Cosmetics Act, and Republic Act No. 7394, Otherwise Known as the Consumers-Act of the Philippines, and for Other Purposes	Pending with the Comm. on Health and Comm. on Trade and Industry
House Bill No. 12100 14 August 2000	An Act Prescribing the Use of Philippine Tropical Fabric for Official Uniforms of Public Officials and Employees	Pending with the Comm. on Civil Service (Counterpart Measure in the Senate – Hon. Loren Legarda-Leviste)

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ELEVENTH CONGRESS
TANADA RESOLUTIONS

HOUSE RESOLUTION NO./ DATE OF FILING	RESOLUTION TITLE	STATUS	CO-AUTHOR/S
House Resolution No. 187 14 August 1998	Resolution Calling Upon the Authori-ties to Take the Needed Steps to Se-cure the Lives and Immediate Release of the Two Filipino Human Rights Wor-kers Arrested and Detained in Burma	Pending with the Comm. on Foreign Affairs for 291 session days	Loreto-Go
House Resolution No. 204 20 August 1998	Resolution Directing the Committee on Economic Affairs to Conduct an Inqui-ry, in Aid of Legislation, on the Poten-tial Negative Repercussion of the De-letion from the Negative List of Private Domestic Construction Contracts	Adopted on 14 September 1999 as Resolution No. 72	Montemayor
House Resolution No. 300 10 September 1998	Resolution Urging President Joseph Ejercito Estrada to Call Upon the Government of the United States of America to Fulfill its Responsibility of Cleaning Up Wastes Left Behind by the American Troops in Clark and Subic, in the Light of Grave Environ-mental to the Immediate Communities Near the Former US Military Bases	Adopted on 21 September 1999 as Resolution No. 75	Nepomuceno, Liban, Unde
House Resolution No. 370 20 September 1998	Resolution Directing the Committee on Health, to Conduct an Inquiry, in Aid of Legislation, on the Implementation of R.A. 7875, Otherwise Known as the "National Health Insurance Act of 1995" and on the Reported Failure of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation to Settle Insurance Claims	Pending with the Comm. on Health for 282 session days	Montemayor
House Resolution No. 564 02 December 1998	Resolution Directing the Committee on Agriculture and Food, to Conduct an Inquiry, in Aid of Legislation, on the Reported Crisis in the Corn Industry Primarily Affecting Mindanao Farmers	Pending with the Comm. on Agriculture and Food for 266 session days	Aumentado, Montemayor
House Resolution No. 766 26 February 1999	Resolution Directing the Committee on Economic Affairs to Conduct an Inqui-ry, in Aid of Legislation, on the Laws that Need to be Changed, Amended or Passed to Provide for Safety Nets to Philippine Professionals who Might be Disadvantaged in the Coming Liberalization of the Trade in Services	Pending with the Comm. on Economic Affairs for 239 session days	Montemayor
House Resolution No. 833 22 March 1999	Resolution Directing the Committee on Agriculture, to Conduct an Inquiry, in Aid of Legislation, on the Reported Over-Importation of Fishery Products and Its Negative Repercussions on the Fishery Sector	Pending with the Comm. on Agriculture and Food for 233 session days
House Resolution No. 935 19 May 1999	Resolution Directing the Committee on Economic Affairs to Conduct an Inquiry, in Aid of Legislation, into the Alleged Rampant, Widespread, and Unlawful Intrusion by Foreign Firms and Professionals into the Domestic Customs Brokerage Business in Violation of the Negative List of the Foreign Investment Act	Pending with the Comm. on Economic Affairs for 217 session days
House Resolution No. 1039 27 July 1999	Resolution Directing the House Com-mittees on Agriculture and Food Secu-rity, to Conduct an Inquiry, in Aid of Legislation, on the Preparations the Executive is Undertaking for the Forth-coming Renegotiation on GATT-WTO Commitments as the Results Thereof will Directly Affect & Have an Impact on Agriculture, the Incomes of Farmers & Our Drive to Achieve Food Security	Pending with the Comm. on Agriculture and Food for 199 session days	Rosales, Unde
House Resolution No. 1041 27 July 1999	Resolution Directing the Committee on Civil, Political and Human Rights to Conduct an Immediate Investigation, in Aid of Legislation, into the Circums-tances Surrounding the Involuntary Disappearance, Apparent Illegal Arrest and Detention of Mr. Vicente P. Ladlad	Pending with the Comm. on Civil, Political and Human Rights for 199 session days (Four public hearings were already held - Process of drafting a Committee Report)
House Resolution No. 1066 09 August 1999	Resolution Directing the Committees on Trade and Industry and Natural Resources to Conduct an Inquiry, in Aid of Legislation, on the Negative Impact of Biopiracy on Our Local Biodiversity and Genetic Resources	Pending with the Comm. on Natural Resources for 193 session days
House Resolution No. 1067 09 August 1999	Resolution Directing the Committee on Natural Resources to Inquire, in Aid of Legislation, into the Illegal Logging Activities Occurring Inside the Quezon National Park and Determine the Extent of Protection and Preservation Being Done by Government Agencies Tasked with Such Functions	Pending with the Comm. on Natural Resources for 193 session days
House Resolution No. 1282 09 December 1999 (Joint Authors - Reps. Acosta, Paez, H. Alvarez, Montemayor, Rosales, Magtubo, Nantes, Zartiga, Abad and Sarenas)	Resolution Expressing the Sense of the House of Representatives of the Republic of the Philippines for the Safeguarding of the Right of Seasonal and Other Farm-Workers as Qualified Beneficiaries Under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (CARL) or Republic Act No. 6657 in the Light of the Recent Supreme Court Decision on the Case of the Mapalad Farmers of Sumilao, Bukidnon	Pending with the Comm. on Agrarian Reform for 157 session days
House Resolution No. 1407 28 February 2000	Resolution Directing the Committees on Agriculture and Economic Affairs to Conduct an Investigation, in Aid of Legislation, on the Unfair Trade Acts by Australia and Belgium, to the Detriment of our Agricultural Sector	Pending with the Comm. on Agriculture and Food for 135 session days

House Resolution No. 1695 09 August 2000	Resolution Directing the Special Committee on Poverty Alleviation to Conduct a Comprehensive Study, in Aid of Legislation, into the 20/20 Initiative for Universal Access to Basic Anti-Poverty Programs and to Recommend Workable Legislative Strategies Intended to Address the Most Basic Human Priority Areas for the Majority of the Filipino People	Pending with the Special Comm. on Poverty Alleviation
House Resolution No. 1790 28 September 2000	Resolution Directing the Committee on Civil, Political and Human Rights to Inquire, in Aid of Legislation, on the Manner of the Raid of the Kilusan para sa Pambansang Demokrasyo (KPD) Office and the Subsequent Arrest of 12 of Its Staff and Officers, by Elements of the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) on 18 September 2000	Pending with the Comm. on Civil, Political and Human Rights	Rosales, Zubiri
House Resolution No. 1815 11 October 2000	Resolution Strongly Urging the Executive to Freeze All Tariff Reduction Plans until Congress, through its Committees on Trade and Industry and Agriculture and Food Security, Conducts a Review on the Impact of the Tariff Reform Program of the Government, with the End View of Putting Forward an Integrated and Rational Tariff Structure in the Contect of a Globalizing Environment	Pending with the Committees on Trade and Industry, Agriculture and Food Security
House Resolution No. 1914 29 January 2001	Resolution Urging the Commission on Elections to Conduct a National Day of Registration for First-time Voters of the 14 May 2001 Election	Pending with the Committee on Suffrage and Electoral Reforms

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