With 240 affirmative votes, the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading House Bill (HB) 8210 aimed at addressing and resolving the gap between current and expected learning competencies.
HB 8210 or the proposed “Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) Program Act” seeks to ensure that learners develop the most important learning competencies in reading, mathematics and sciences through tutors who will conduct the courses in the program.
Students who fail their exams and assessments and those who have returned to school after a furlough and whose grades are at or almost higher than the minimum level of proficiency necessary for Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) are the target beneficiaries of the ARAL program.
Students who fail their exams and assessments and those who have returned to school after a furlough and whose grades are at or almost higher than the minimum level of proficiency necessary for Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELCs) are the target beneficiaries of the ARAL program.
Also approved on third and final reading was HB 10142, or the proposed “Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) System Act.”
With 242 affirmative votes, the bill seeks to align ECCD services with maternal, child health and nutrition programs.
With 242 affirmative votes, the bills seeks to align ECCD services with maternal, child health and nutrition programs.
When enacted into law, the measure mandates the government to institutionalize a comprehensive, integrative and sustainable National System for ECCD that involves multisectoral and interagency collaboration at the national and local levels among government, service providers, families, communities, the public and private sectors, non-government organizations, professional associations and academic institutions.
The House also passed HB 9794 also on final reading with 238 affirmative votes, four negative votes and two abstentions.
The measure seeks to improve Philippine tax incentives by imposing a simplified value added tax (VAT) refund system for registered businesses, instituting risk-based auditing by the Commission on Audit (COA) for tax refunds, and giving the President the authority to grant incentives, including motu proprio grants of incentive packages, among others.
