Of the 51 measures, eight are of national application and 43 are of local application. The national bills include the Malacañang-certified bill granting tax relief to individual tax payers and the proposed Right of Access to Information Act.

The House likewise approved on second reading eight other bills of national application, including the proposal upgrading the rates of compensation of the officers and employees of the judiciary and bills touching on the promotion of health among the people like the matter of breastfeeding, "Hepa Awareness", Prostate cancer, Lactation stations, the use of government ambulances, among others.

"Credit should be to all the members of the House for rising to the occasion for the sake of our people," Nograles said as he noted the approval on second reading of 43 other local bills promoting countryside and district development.

The other national bills passed on third and final reading are the following: HB3791 – Rationalizing the income requirements for the declaration of highly urbanized status in the case of component cities and for the creation of a province; and HB 1409 – "An Act Prohibiting and penalizing the pilferage and theft, unauthorized use, interconnection or reception of any signal or service offered over a cable television (CATV) or cable internet system and/or network or through any unauthorized installations, access or connection thereto through the use of cable or other equipment and prescribing penalties therefore";

Also approved was HB 32 93 which strengthens the regulatory capacity of the Bureau of Food and Drug (BFAD); HB 3732 which implements the right of access to information on matters of public concern guaranteed under the Constitution; HB 3793 which amends and updates the Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003; and HB 3825 which provides for the development of entrepreneurship skills among government employees for an innovation-inspired corps of civil servants and a productive post-service citizenry.

Also on Monday, the House approved on second and third reading the Malacanang-certified bill (House Bill 3971 contained in Committee Report 451) granting tax relief to individual taxpayers which increased the current maximum tax exemption of P96,000 to P200,000. This, in effect, exempts all minimum wage-earners from paying their annual income taxes.

"I congratulate Chairman Exequiel Javier and members of his committee, the Majority leader Arthur Defensor and his deputies and the deputy Speakers of the House for taking turns in presiding over the sometimes heated debates in plenary. Minority leader Ronaldo Zamora and his colleagues in the opposition and the party list representatives deserve our gratitude for their constructive fiscalization," Nograles said.

In less than 100 session days since Nograles took over as Speaker on February 4, four vital measures have been enacted into law bannered by the 2008 General Appropriations Act (Republic Act 9498), the Civil Aviation Authority Act of 200 (RA 9497), the Filipino World War II Veterans Equity Act of 2007 (R.A. 9499) and the new Charter of the University of the Philippines (RA 9500).

The House has also ratified two socio-economic measures which are awaiting the President’s signature namely: the proposed Magna Carta for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises intended to promote productivity entrepreneurship among Filipinos; and the Cheaper Medicines Act which aims to bring down the prices of quality and affordable drugs and medicines accessible to the poor masses.

Even as the issue of lack of quorum intermittently hit the public focus, Nograles said, the House legislative record would speak for itself.

"We have been productive, so far," said the first Speaker from Mindanao who revealed, as per record submit to him by House Secretary General Marilyn B. Yap would show, that since February 4 up to May 12, four bills have been enacted into law, three bicam reports were ratified and submitted for the President’s action, 21 national and 102 local bills have been approved on 3rd reading and transmitted to the Senate.

The House has likewise approved on second reading three bills of national application and 20 bills of local significance. During the same period, the House also adopted in plenary 17 ordinary resolutions and 69 Resolutions on Inquiries or House investigations.