Legislative Performance
SOTTO, Vicente III
Bills Authored:
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An Act Providing for a System of Absentee Voting by Qualified Filipinos
Abroad
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An Act Repealing Republic Act No. 7924 Otherwise Known as An Act Creating
The Metropolitan Development Authority
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An Act Providing a Service Area Scheme to All Internet Service Providers,
Liberalizing the Granting of its Operational License to Offer Expanded Services
and Deploy Internet Broadband Infrastructure and for Other Purposes
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An Act Strengthening the Mandate of Interconnection Between and Among
Public Telecommunications Entities, Providing Penalties for its Violation and
for Other Purposes
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An Act to Prevent Fraudulent Acquisition of a Philippines' Domain or Ph
Domain Name Over the Internet and for Other Purposes
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An Act Requiring Libraries of Private and Public Educational Institutions
With Internet Access to Install a Software Technology for Blocking Internet
Websites Displaying Obscene and Violent Materials Providing Penalties Therefor
and for Other Purposes
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An Act Creating a Presidential Drug Enforcement Agency, Defining its
Powers and Functions, Appropriating Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Section 325 (A) of Republic Act No. 7160, Otherwise Known
as The Local Government Code of 1991, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Providing for the Compulsory Confinement, Treatment and
Rehabilitation of Drug Dependents, Prescribing the Appropriate Mandatory
Periods for Resolution and Appropriate Funds Therefor
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An Act Creating a National Transportation Safety Board Appropriating Funds
Therefor, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Section 446 (A) and 457 (A) of R. A. 7160, Otherwise Known
as The Local Government Code of 1991, by Allowing the Municipal Vice-Mayor and
City Vice-Mayor, Who Are Presiding Officers of the Sangguniang Bayan and
Sangguniang Panlungsod, Respectively, to Relinquish the Chair At Any Time, and
Granting Them the Power to Perform the Functions of a Regular Member of Their
Respective Sangguniangs, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Sub-Paragraph (C) of Section 140, Amusement Tax, of
Republic Act No. 7160, Otherwise Known as The Local Government Code of 1991
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An Act to Establish an Integrated System for Agriculture Technology
Generation and Transfer and Appropriating Funds Therefor
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An Act Providing for the Promotion of Bio-Organic Farming in the
Philippines
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An Act Establishing a Barangay Day Care and Women'S Support Center in
Every Barangay and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Privatize the Maintenance of Public Works Equipment and
Completed Projects in Pilot Areas and for Other Purposes
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An Act Creating the Philippine Rubber Research Development and
Productivity Board, Defining its Powers and Functions, and Appropriating Funds
Therefor
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An Act Providing Government Assistance to Youth Engaged in Agriculture to
Maximize Productivity, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Constituting the National Food Authority Into the National Food
Marketing and Development Authority and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Republic Act No. 6847, Otherwise Known as The Philippine
Sports Commission Law, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Rationalizing Agriculture Education in the Philippines by
Establishing a National System of Agriculture Education Institutions, Providing
for Mechanisms of Implementation, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Broadening the Scope of Compliance and Expanding the Conduit
Network for Agri-Agra Credits, Amending for the Purpose Presidential Decree No.
717, Otherwise Known as the Agri-Agra Law
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An Act Creating the National Agrarian Reform Adjudication Commission,
Defining its Powers and Functions, and Appropriating Funds Therefor
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An Act Creating a National inventors Corporation, Thereby Amending
Republic Act Numbered Seventy Four Hundred and Fifty-Nine (RA 7459)
Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Implement the Constitutional Provisions on the Advertising
Industry in Order to Protect Consumers, Promote the General Welfare, and
Encourage Advertising Which Upholds Truth and Inculcates in Our People
Desirable Moral Values and Cultural Traditions, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Providing for a Magna Carta for Agricultural Development Workers
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An Act Providing for Three Small Farmers' Representatives in the NIA Board
by Amending Republic Act Numbered Thirty-Six Hundred and One, as Amended by the
Presidential Decree Numbered Five Hundred and Fifty-Two and Further Amended by
Executive Order Numbered Two Hundred and Ninety-Two Dated July 25, 1987
Entitled, An Act Creating the National Irrigation Administration
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An Act Providing for an Expanded Representation of Small Grains Farmers in
the National Food Authority Council and an Increase in the Per Diem of Council
Members, Amending for the Purpose Section 6 of Presidential Decree Numbered
Seventeen Hundred and Seventeen Hundred
and Seventy, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Providing for the Establishment of a Balik Scientist Program,
Appropriating Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Requiring Fully-Equipped Science Laboratories in Every Public
Elementary and Secondary School Providing Funds Thereof and for Other Purposes
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An Act Strengthening the National Nutrition Program, Appropriating Funds
Therefor, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Republic Act Number 5173, Establishing the Philippine
Coast Guard as a Separate and Distinct Service and Attaching the Same to the
Deparment of Transportation and Communications, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Professionalizing the Government Accounting Service to Serve as a Tool
for Effective Management and Control of Government Resources, Creating for the
Purpose the Government Accountancy Office Under the Department of Budget and
Management and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Strengthen the Structure, Capability for Efficient and Effective
Program Implementation and Organizational Management, and Align the Direction
of Existing and Future Cooperatives Towards People Empowerment and Balanced
Sustained Economic Development of All
Cooperatives, Amending for That Purpose Republic Act No. 6938, The Cooperative
Code of the Philippines, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Creating the Philippine Science and Technology Development
Corporation and Appropriating Funds Therefor
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An Act Prohibiting the Importation, Sale, Distribution, Delivery,
Transportation, Planting, Cultivation, Culture, Manufacture, Administration,
Possession, and the Use for Any Purpose of Any and All Species of Papaver Genus
in the Papaveraceae Family, Providing Penalties Therefor and for Other Purposes
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An Act Providing for the Country's Urban Development Program Through the
Creation of a Housing Bank Within the Development Bank of the Philippines,
Amending the Provisions of Executive Order Numbered Eighty-One (EO 81),
Otherwise Known as the Charter of the Development Bank of the Philippines
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An Act Requiring Newly Appointed Government officials and Employees to
Undergo orientation Courses Upon assumption to office and Providing Penalties
for Violation Thereof
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An Act to Declare April 27 of Every Year as a Special Non-Working Holiday
Throughout the Country to Commemorate the Victory of Lapu-Lapu and His Men Over
the Spaniards Led by Fernando Magallanes in the Historic Battle of Mactan on
April 27, 1521, to be Known as Lapu-Lapu
Day or Adlaw Ni Lapu-Lapu
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An Act to Ordain and Promulgate An Economic and Social Housing Code of the
Philippines
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An Act to Provide Incentives for the Private Sector to Undertake Rental
Residential Housing At Rates Affordable by Low and Middle-income Families, and
for Other Purposes
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An Act to Institute the Comprehensive Water Resources Ecosystems Policy
and Program, Identify and Formulate a Master Plan for Each Ecosystem for its
Conservation, Environmental Protection, Economic Productivity and Utilization,
and Balanced Rational Use and Management for the Present and Future
Generations, Provide the Structural Mechanisms for the Formulation of the Plan
and the Implementation Thereof, and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Promote and Encourage the Organization and Sustained Development
of Cooperatives as Instruments for the Fulfillment of the Basic Need of Housing
for the Homeless and Underprivileged and Amending for That Purpose Republic Act
No. 6938, The Cooperative Code of the
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An Act Amending Certain Provisions of Chapter 5 (Recall), Title One, Book
I of Republic Act No. 7160, Local Government Code of 1991, and for Other
Purposes
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An Act Regulating the Power of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming
Corporation to Establish, Operate and Maintain Casinos in the Country, Amending
for the Purpose Presidential Decree No. 1869, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Establishing a Student Financial Assistance Program for Students of
Economically Disadvantaged Families and Authoriziing the Appropriation of Three
Hundred Fifty Million Pesos for the Purposes
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An Act Creating a Public Corporation to be Known as the Foundation for the
Encouragement of Gifted and Talented Children and Youth, and to Define its
Powers and Purposes, and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Ensure Equal Employment Opportunities to Muslims and Tribal
Filipinos
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An Act Providing for the Creation of a Commission on the Family
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An Act instituting An Incentive Pay System, Based on Productivity and
Performance, for All Official and Employees of the Government, and for Other
Purposes
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An Act Creating the National Academy of Sports as an Attached Agency of
the Philippine Sports Commission, Providing the Structure, Powers and Functions
Thereof, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Designating a Regional Trial Court, Within the City or Province to
Sit as Special Drug Court, Amending for This Purpose Article X, Section 39 of
Republic Act Numbered Six Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-Five
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An Act to Professionalize the Practice of Prison Management and Set for
That Purpose the Qualifications for Superintendents of the National Prison
System and of Wardens of Provincial, City or Municipal Jails
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An Act Providing Tax incentives to Developers and Builders of Residential
Building and/or Housing Projects by Exempting Them From the Payment of Real
Estate Taxes, Defining the Conditions Thereof and for Other Purposes
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An Act Requiring All Applicants for Employment in the Government to
Undergo, and Submit to Illegal Drug Test, Prohibiting the Employment of Illegal
Drug Addicts, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Section 426 of Republic Act No. 7160, The Local Government
Code of 1991, by Mandating the Sangguniang Kabataan to Implement an
Environmental Protection Program in Their Respective Barangays, Providing the
Mechanism for the Effective Implementation
Therefor, and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Conserve and Protect the Public Forests, Mangroves and Wildlife
Therein Through a Program of Renewal, Reforestation and Replanting, and
Replenishment of Marine, Air and Other Wildlife, the Harnessing of Youth for
Protection of the Nation's Patrimony, and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Protect, Conserve and Rehabilitate the Seaweeds and Seashells
Resources in Any Form and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Establish a 'Heroes in Time of Peace' Public Memorial for
Policemen and Firemen, and for Other Purposes
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An Act to Institutionalize the Basic Service of Integrated Solid Waste
Collection and Disposal in All Local Government Units, Amending for That
Purpose The Local Government Code of 1991, Republic Act No. 7160, and for Other
Purposes
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An Act Deregulating Certain Public Services, Amending for the Purpose
Commonwealth Act No. 146, as Amended, and for Other Purposes
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The Revised Veterinary Medicine and Surgery Act
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An Act to Popularize and Enhance Public Understanding and Awareness of
Science and Technology
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An Act Amending Certain Sections of the Presidential Decree No. 1096,
Mandating the Demolition of Buildings, Structures, or Any Part or Portion
Thereof Damaged by Fire, Earthquake, Wind, or by Any Other Cause, Posing an
Imminent Danger to Life, Health, Safety or Well-Being of the General Public,
Within Fifteen (15) Days From Notice, Increasing the Penalty for Violation
Thereof and the Other Provisions of the National Building Code, and for Other
Purposes
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An Act Developing Globally Competitive Science Teachers
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An Act Amending Article 29 of Act No. 3815, as Amended, the Revised Penal
Code, in Order to Give Offenders the Fullest Benefit of Preventive Imprisonment
and for Other Purposes
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An Act Strengthening the Family Home by Amending for the Purpose Articles
155 and 153 of Executive Order No. 209, as Amended, Otherwise Known as The
Family Code of the Philippines
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An Act Institutionalizing Manpower Guidance and Employment Services at the
Local Level Through the Establishment of Manpower Guidance and Employment
Centers in All Capital Towns and/or Cities in the Philippines
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An Act Institutionalizing the Weekend Observance of Regular Public
Official Holidays in the Philippines in Order to Rationalize Commemoration of
Such Holidays and for Domestic Tourism Purposes
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An Act Providing That Membership in the Board of Directors of the
Government Service Insurance System, Social Security System, National Power
Corporation, Philippine National Bank, Development Bank of the Philippines,
Philippine Coconut Authority, Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, National
Housing Authority and the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board
Shall Each Include a Qualified Member to Represent the National Cultural
Communities
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An Act to Strengthen and Effectuate Equality of Opportunity for All
Filipino Women, Establishing an Implementing Machinery Therefor, Appropriating
Funds in Support Thereof, and for Other Purposes
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An Act Providing for the Protection and Alleviating the Plight of
Temporary Employees and for Other Purposes
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An Act Granting Access and Difficulty Allowances to Government Employees,
and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Sections 2 and 5 of Presidential Decree No. 1179, Entitled
An Act Amending Certain Provisions of Chapter Three, Title Eight of
Presidential Decree Numbered Six Hundred and Three Otherwise Known as The Child
and Youth Welfare Code and for Other Purposes
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An Act Providing for the Construction of Public Restroom Facilities Along
National Highways, Appropriating Funds Therefore and for Other Purposes
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An Act Amending Section 11 of Executive order No. 903, as Amended by
Section 3 of Executive Order No. 298 Otherwise Known as The Revised Charter of
the Manila International Airport Authority
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An Act Repealing Republic Act No. 3855, as Amended, and Granting the Same
Rights, Opportunities, Privileges and Benefits Enjoyed by Commissioned and
Enlisted Male Personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to the Uniformed
Women Personnel Thereof
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An Act Repealing Republic Act No. 3855, as Amended, and Granting the Same
Rights, Opportunities, Privileges and benefits Enjoyed by Commissioned and
Enlisted Male Personnel of the Armed Forces of the Philippines to the Uniformed
Women Personnel Thereof