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House leader reminds senators:: Only 12 session days left for you to pass Cha-cha measure 

Published Mar 22, 2024 06:21 am

At A Glance

  • The Senate essentially just has 12 session days to go to deliver on its promise to pass it's economic Charter change (Cha-cha) proposal, also known as Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No.6, House Deputy Majority Leader Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre said.

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The Senate essentially just has 12 session days to go to deliver on its promise to pass it's economic Charter change (Cha-cha) proposal, also known as Resolution of Both Houses (RBH) No.6.

House Deputy Majority Leader Tingog Party-list Rep. Jude Acidre gave senators this reminder even as the solons from the two chambers began their five-week Lenten break Thursday, March 21.

The huge difference between the House of Representatives and Senate is that the former approved its economic Cha-cha measure--RBH No.7--on third and final reading just before the lengthy recess.

Based on Acidre’s timeline, there will only be 12 session days starting from the resumption of sessions in Congress (House and Senate) from April 29 to May 24, which is the sine die adjournment for the second regular session. Lawmakers typically conduct sessions only from Monday to Wednesday.

“We (House members) have passed the bills and the RBH. We have passed the resolution and we have already forwarded it to the Senate. Now, we’re looking at our friends in the upper house of what they will do because as they insist, Congress is a bicameral body," Acidre said in a press conference Thursday.

"The actions of the House has to be reciprocated by the Senate and we have full trust considering na ang RBH No.6 is authored by the Senate President, by the Senate Pro Tempore, by the majority leader and the chairman of the sub-committee,” he said.

The House's RBH No.7 was lifted from the Senate's own RBH No.6. Both seek revisions to the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution as a way to attract more foreign direct investments (FDIs) to the Philippines.

Senate President Juan Miguel "Migz" Zubiri--one of the principal authors of RBH No.6--earleir said that the Senate would pass the measure by March. This didn't happen, as RBH No.6 is still at the subcommittee level.

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If and when it hurdles the subcommittee, RBH No.6 will still have to go through the mother committee, debates in plenary, voting on second reading, and then on third and final reading.

“Alam naman natin magkaka-election tayo in 2025 (We know that we will have elections in 2025), whether we want the plebiscite to happen together with 2025 elections or whether we want to do it ahead of the 2025 elections. Still, that’s a deadline that...we expect the Senate to know, di ba (right)?” he said.

“And if they mean what they said that they will pass this, they know that that is the ultimate deadline and if you work back the calendar coming from the election, siguro (maybe) they should pass it before the sine die [adjournment],” Acidre said.

He is alluding to the time frame the Constitution gives the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to conduct a plebiscite, which is not earlier than 60 days nor later than 90 days from receipt of the resolution of Congress containing the proposed amendments.

The filing of the election aspirants' certificates of candidacy (coc) will begin in October 2024.

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