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Speaker Lord Allan Velasco on Independence Day urged Filipinos to use the COVID-19 vaccines as weapons in taking up the fight against the virus in order to free the Philippines from COVID-19.
Published June 1, 2021, 5:05 PM
Ignoring the Senate and executive department’s lack of interest, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading the proposed P401-billion Bayanihan to Arise as One Act or Bayanihan 3 on a unanimous voting on Tuesday, June 1.
With 238 House members present voting in the affirmative and zero in the negative House Bill 9411 will now be sent to the Senate for its action.
Questioning constitutionality of the measure, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman registered the lone abstention.
Lagman is the only solon present in the plenary who is not an author of the bill that proposes to distribute an initial P2,000 to all 108 million Filipinos and an additional P10,000 to those who were displaced and suffered financial distress due to the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.