Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva on Tuesday made an assurance that the chamber is on track in crafting new rules that will allow the Senate to either approve or reject measures to amend the 1987 Constitution.
"We’re definitely on the right track and we’ll be ready before the culmination of the subcommittee hearing," Villanueva said, referring to the Senate constitutional amendments and revision of codes subcommittee's hearing on Resolution of Both Houses No. 6."After our hearing we asked the secretariat to collate and present to the members of the ules ommittee our draft committee report then ’ll sponsor it on the floor and approve it,' ' the majority leader added.
Following Escudero's manifestation, Senator Francis Tolentino filed proposed Senate Resolution 941 which seeks to provide clear guidelines on how the Senate will act on measures seeking to amend the charter.The House of Representatives had already approved on third and final reading RBH 7, which mirrors the amendments to the Constitution proposed under Senate's RBH6.
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