Permanent Committees of the Senate

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COMMITTEE	SCOPE
Accountability of Public Officers and Investigations (Blue Ribbon)	All matters relating to, including investigation of, malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance in office by officers and employees of the government, its branches, agencies, subdivisions and instrumentalities; implementation of the provision of the Constitution on nepotism; and investigation of any matter of public interest on its own initiative or brought to its attention by any member of the Senate.
Accounts	All matters relating to the auditing and adjustment of all accounts chargeable against the funds for the expenses and activities of the Senate.
Agrarian Reform	All matters relating to agrarian reform, landed estates, and implementation of the agrarian land reform provisions of the Constitution.
Agriculture and Food	All matters relating to agriculture, food-production and agri-business, including agricultural experimental stations, agricultural economics and research; soil survey and conservation; agricultural education; technical extension services; animal husbandry; livestock quarantine; agricultural support price; and fisheries and aquatic resources.
Banks, Financial Institutions and Currencies	All matters relating to banks, financial institutions, government and private currencies, capital markets, mutual funds, securitization, coinage and circulation of money.
Civil Service and Government Reorganization	All matters relating to the Civil Service and the status of officers and employees of the Government including their appointment, discipline, retirement; their compensation privileges, benefits and incentives; implementation of the constitutional provisions on the rights of government workers to form and join labor organizations; public sector labor-management relations and collective negotiation agreements; reorganization of the Government or any of its branches, or instrumentalities; all human resource development programs pertaining to the Government; and all other matters relating to the bureaucracy.
Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws	All matters proposing amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines and the compilation and revision of existing codes and laws; election laws and implementation of constitutional provisions on initiative and referendum on legislative acts; recall of elective officials; the role and rights of people's organizations; and sectoral or party list representation.
Cooperatives	All matters relating to cooperatives, both urban and rural-based, including but not limited to farm credit and farm security, cooperative movements, marketing and consumers' organizations and the implementation of the Cooperative Code of the Philippines.
Cultural Communities	All matters relating to cultural communities.
Economic Affairs	All matters relating to economic planning and programming; the planning of domestic and foreign public indebtedness; general economic development; and coordination, regulation and diversification of industry and investments.

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