Villanueva: Senate will take up Marcos admin priority measures in 2023
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva said Monday, Dec, 26 that he foresees the Senate taking up the priority measures of the Marcos administration when it resumes plenary sessions early next year, on Jan 23, 2023.
The Senate and the House of Representatives are now on a month-long Christmas recess.
Villanueva identified some of the priority measures as the establishment of the Virology Institute, Medical Reserve Corps, and the National Center for Disease Prevention and Control.
The move for the condonation of agrarian reform payments, as well as the House bill on the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), are also on top of the legislative agenda, he said.
‘’As chairman of the subcommittee on Senate Bill (SB) 129, or the Trabaho Para sa Lahat ng Pilipino Bill, we are also prioritizing the institutionalization of the National Employment Recovery Strategy, which is something the President himself also sees as an urgent measure to be passed during our LEDAC (Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council) meeting,’' Villanueva added.