PUBLIC UTILITIES/ENERGY
  • Title/Date Filed: House Bill No. 3271
    An Act To Open Loan Windows for Filipino Migrant Workers, amending for the purpose sec 6 (A) and 21 of Republic Act No. 8042, Otherwise Known as the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995
    (Filed September 27, 2001)
    Status: Awaiting 1st Committee Hearing
    Main Features:
    - A Migrant Workers Loan Guarantee Fund is created, with a revolving amount of P100Million, to expand the grant of pre-departure loans including loans of placement fee and family assistance to migrant workers

  • Title/Date Filed: House Bill No. 4589
    An Act Providing For Stronger Deterrence And Special Protection Against Child Labor And Providing Penalties For Its Violation And For Other Purposes
    (Filed March 18, 2002)
    Status: Approved on 3rd ReadingPending in Senate
    Main Features:
    -     This bill prohibits employers from causing children to suffer work for more than 8 hours a day, from 6 o' clock pm until 6 o' clock the following morning, or where there be hazardous conditions, sexual activities, alcoholic beverages, tobacco
    - It also penalizes illegal recruitment, trafficking of children by means of violence or threat of violence, abuse of authority or dominant position, debt-bondage, deception and other forms of coercion, and inducement or coercion to work in hazardous conditions or to work abroad
    - To enhance support of rights of a working child, special privileges are established, such as the obligation of employers to provide education and a study, rest and recreation area

  • Title/Date Filed: House Bill No. 4667
    An Act Amending Presidential Decree No. 443, As Amended, Otherwise Known As The Labor Code Of The Philippines, By Deleting Arts. 130 & 131 Thereof
    (Filed April 17, 2002)
    Status: TWG - September 27, 2002
    Main Features:
    -     The provisions of the Labor Code on the prohibition to make women suffer work during late hours, specifically from 10 or 12 o' clock in the evening until 6 o' clock in the morning, and its corresponding exceptions, are deleted.


  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 59
    Resolution calling upon and requesting the President of the Philippines to proclaim the year 2002 as "The Year of the Overseas Employment Providers", and for other purposes
    (Filed July 31,2001)
    Status: Committee Report No. 191
    Main Features:
    -     Recommendation to give overseas employment providers, licensed recruitment agencies and their associations official recognition, and welfare protection and assistance for their role as legitimate partners of the government in the promotion and protection in the welfare of Filipino OCWs

  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 303
    Resolution urging the DFA and the OWWA to report and explain on the Misyon Bagwis undertaken by the said agencies for the evacuation and repatriation of overseas contract workers in Central Asia and the Middle East countries
    (Filed November 22, 2001)
    Status: Not yet taken up by the Committee

  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 483
    Resolution Urging The House of Representatives, Through the Committee on Labor, to Conduct An Inquiry, In Aid of Legislation, Into the Collection of Overseas Workers Welfare Association (OWWA) Funds, Management and Disbursement and the Projects- Programmes Undertaken By the OWWA for the Upliftment of the Welfare of the Overseas Filipino contract Workers
    (Filed March 18, 2002)
    Main Features:
    - Inquiry into the plight of Filipino workers stranded in Saudi Arabia for various reasons including illegal recruitment and fake travel and working documents


  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 634
    Resolution Urging the House of Representatives to Inquire in Aid of Legislation, into the Alleged Unnecessary Trainings and the Discriminatory Age Limitation Imposed Against Filipino Seafarers and to Provide Measures to Enhance the Welfare and Protect the Rights of Seafarers
    (Filed July 4, 2002)
    Status: Committee Report 683

  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 934
    Resolution Urging the House Committees on Labor and Employment and on Foreign Affairs, to conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, into the conditions of OFWs stationed in Israel in light of the recent suicide attacks in Tel Aviv
    (Filed January 09, 2003)

  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 285
    Resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives by condemning the incident which happened to the two (2) Filipino pilots in Tacoma International Airport in the United States
    (Filed November 9, 2001)
    Status: For committee deliberation

  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 971
    Resolution urging the Committee on Women, Committee on Labor and Employment and other appropriate committees to conduct an inquiry, in aid of legislation, into the illegal issuance of artist records by corrupt Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) officials resulting in the illicit trafficking of women
    (Filed January 15, 2003)

  • Title/Date Filed: House Resolution No. 1087
    Resolution urging the implementation of more stringent safeguards, specifically in the Northern Luzon, to avert increased infection of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
    (Filed April 01, 2003)
    Status: For Referral

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