The House Committee on Higher and Technical Education chaired by Baguio Representative Mark Go approved the consolidation of four bills that would institutionalize skills training and provide job opportunities to inmates in detention facilities.
These are House Bills (HBs) 4761, 5020, 5661 and 7493, authored respectively by Manila 1st District Representative Ernesto Dionisio Jr., Parañaque City 2nd District Representative Gus Tambunting, CIBAC Party-list Representative Eddie Villanueva and Quezon 4th District Representative Mike Tan.
“The primary goal of our correctional system is the rehabilitation of offenders in the hopes that after serving their sentence, they can be productive members of our society.”
“The primary goal of our correctional system is the rehabilitation of offenders in the hopes that after serving their sentence, they can be productive members of our society,” Dionisio said in the explanatory note of HB 4761.
Tan, author of HB 7493, agreed, adding that “With employable skills, they (inmates) can find new life when they leave detention.”
The committee also approved the substitute bill to HB 969 “strengthening the Mindanao State University System and appropriating funds therefor.” The bill was filed by Cagayan de Oro 2nd District Representative Rufus Rodriguez.
Likewise, the panel approved HB 7155, authored by Cavite 5th District Representative Roy Loyola, seeking to convert the Eulogio ‘Amang’ Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST) – Cavite Campus in the Municipality of General Mariano Alvarez in Cavite, into a regular campus to be known as the EARIST-Cavite Campus, and appropriate funds therefor.
