Writer: Salvacion Beleo, MAS-PRID
Two legislators topped the list of having the most number of house bills filed in the House of Representatives since the 14th Congress began in 2007.
Mr. Terence Grana of Bills and Index department's Indexing and Monitoring Group, said that out of the 5179 bills filed by the 238 Members of the House, 896 of them were filed by Reps. Rufus Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan De Oro City) and Rep. Narciso Santiago (Party List, ARC).
Rodriguez is the most prolific with the most number of bills filed since the 14th Congress started last 2007 totaling 508, where 400 of were authored by Rodriguez alone while 108 bills were co-authored with other Members of the House.Out of the 400 proposed measures, 362 bills filed were of national importance and 38 of local concern.
Santiago, on the other hand, got "second place" with 388 house bills filed. 296 out of these 388 were authored by Santiago alone while the other 92 bills were co-authored with other Members of the House.Out of the 296 proposed measures filed, Santiago had only one bill of local concern, yet still with national impact. This is HB 3817 - Creating a new legislative district in the City of Pasig, amending for the purpose R. A. 7829 entitled an Act converting the municipality of Pasig into a highly urbanized city to be known as the City of Pasig.
This, Grana added, does not yet include the number of House Resolutions the two legislators also filed.
The two solons' proposed measures deal mostly with national concerns such as people's health and safety, agriculture and food security, information technology concerns, child, women and youth development, as well as environment and natural resources, among others.
