Marcos admin wants seven bills enacted before new Congress starts


President Marcos address both chambers of Congress. Screenshot from RTVM/LIVE via PDI/ANN

MANILA: The Marcos administration is pushing for the enactment of seven priority bills for the remaining six session days of the 19th Congress.

At their meeting this week, the members of the Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council said the following bills are scheduled for deliberation in the Bicameral Conference Committee: Amendments to the Foreign Investors’ Long-Term Lease Act; Rationalisation of the Mining Fiscal Regime; Amendments to the Universal Health Care Act; e-Government Act/ E-Governance Act; Konektadong Pinoy Act; Virology Institute of the Philippines; and Blue Economy Act.

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