KUMPIYANSA si Speaker Martin G. Romualdez na agad maipapasa ng Kamara de Representantes ang 30 panukala na napagkasunduan na gawing prayoridad sa pagpupulong ng Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC).

Ayon kay Romualdez mahalaga ang mga panukalang napagkasunduan sa paglikha ng mapapasukang trabaho, mas maayos na serbisyong kalusugan, at pagpapalakas ng ekonomiya.

“The House (of Representatives) and the Senate will give these [thirty] measures utmost priority. President Marcos clearly spelled out a roadmap of governance in the next six years for economic recovery, with agriculture as the major engine for growth and employment,” sabi ni Romualdez na dumalo sa LEDAC meting na isinagawa sa Malacañang.

Sinabi ni Romualdez na gagamitin ng liderato ng Kamara ang Rule 10 Section 48 upang hindi na maging mahaba ang pagtalakay ng mga komite sa mga panukala na naipasa na ng mababang kapulungan sa nakaraang Kongreso.

“The House is in full support of the President’s entire legislative agenda, including the key priority measures for legislation he has asked Congress to consider. We will act on these with dispatch,” sabi pa ni Romualdez.

Nasa pagpupulong din sina Pangulong Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. House Majority Leader Manuel Jose “Mannix” M. Dalipe, Reps. Stella Quimbo, House Minority Leader Marcelino “Nonoy” Libanan, Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri, Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva, and Sens. Loren Legarda at Sonny Angara, at mga miyembro ng Gabinete.

Sinabi ni Romualdez na 20 sa 30 panukala na ginawang prayoridad ng LEDAC ay nabanggit na ni Pangulong Marcos sa kanyang State of the Nation Address (SONA).

“I am proud to say that the members of both houses of Congress have already filed bills on the twenty priority measures identified by President Marcos,” dagdag pa ni Romualde.

Ang mga ito ay ang Valuation Reform Bill, Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act (PIFITA), E-Governance Act, E-Government Act, Internet Transaction Act, Government Financial Institutions Unified Initiatives to Distressed Enterprises for Economic Recovery (GUIDE) bill, Medical Reserve Corps bill, National Disease Prevention Management Authority bill, Virology Institute of the Philippines bill, Unified System of Separation, Retirement and Pension bill, Department of Water Resources bill, National Land Use Act, Mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) and National Service Training Program, Budget Modernization bill, National Government Rightsizing Program, National Defense Act, Enabling Law for the Natural Gas Industry, amyenda sa Electric Power Industry Reform Act, amyenda sa Build-Operate-Transfer Law, at Condonation of Unpaid Amortization and Interests of Loans of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries.

“President Marcos called for the enactment of twenty priority measures and both Houses of Congress heeded the call. The ball is now rolling and this administrations plight to improve the current situation of our country has just begun. With the help of the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office, under the leadership of Secretary Dong Mendoza, and the various stakeholders from the Executive branch and the private sector, the members of Congress will be able to craft the best versions of these bills, as envisioned by His Excellency, President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr.,” sabi pa ni Romualdez.

Ang 10 pang panukala, ay ang pagtatayo ng mga Regional Specialty Hospitals, Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers, pagtatayo ng Negros Island Region, New Philippine Passport Act, Waste-to-Energy bill, The Apprenticeship Act, Free Legal Assistance for Military and Uniformed Personnel, Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers, pagtatayo ng Leyte Ecological Industrial Zone, at pagtatayo ng Eastern Visayas Development Authority.

Ang dalawa pang panukala—ang SIM Registration Act at pagpapaliban ng Barangay at Sangguniang Kabataan elections ay prayoridad din at natapos ng ipasa ng Kamara at Senado.