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With sufficient funding for all additional benefits of healthcare workers apparently still an uncertainty, Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte said that the long-term solution to guarantee such extra remuneration for medical frontliners is for Congress to pass new legislation providing them with hazard pay plus substantial increases in the current rates of their overtime pay and […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is calling on Congress to fast-track the approval of two legislative measures that aim to provide health workers with hazard pay plus substantial increases in the current rates of their overtime pay and other benefits. Villafuerte said these proposals, which he authored, will prevent a repeat of the current unrest […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has expressed the hope that the two chambers of the Congress can work overtime to pass corrective legislation defining the tax rates for proprietary schools and allowing them amid the pandemic to enjoy a 1 percent preferential tax rate until June 30, 2023. Villafuerte said the bill will not be passed on […]
Given the 2.5%-contraction of agriculture in the year’s first semester–the biggest output decline in five years–Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has called on the Duterte administration to invest bigtime in “mega farms” across the country to attain food security even at this time of the pandemic and finally transform this underperforming yet resources-rich sector into […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has called for the full implementation of a 2018 law that expands state health and nutrition programs for women and children covering Day One of a mother’s pregnancy up to the child’s first two years, to help address disturbing data on hunger and malnutrition among “food poor” Filipinos. The first […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has welcomed President Duterte’s fresh push in his final State of the Nation Address (SONA) for an accelerated “Build, Build, Build” program in the homestretch of his term, hoping this would lead to the faster implementation or revival especially of flagship projects outside Metro Manila. Villafuerte said that Camarines Sur […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has made a final push in this third and last session of the 18th Congress for a troika of initiatives to further accelerate the Philippines’ digital switch that would help the Philippines keep up with the expected strong rebound of many of its regional neighbors from the Covid-driven economic malaise. These digitalization […]
Camarines Sur Representative LRay Villafuerte has filed a bill seeking to strengthen the Anti-Child Pornography Act by improving accountability of internet service providers (ISPs) to reverse the alarming rise in online child abuse amid the COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdowns. Villafuerte has expressed alarm over a report by the Department of Justice-Office of Cybercrime (DOJ-OOC) that there has been a 264.6% rise in […]
All Filipinos may soon be able to avail of an annual medical checkup for free under a bill recently approved on third and final reading by the House of Representatives. The bill, of which Camarines Sur LRay Villafuerte is among the principal authors, provides that the annual medical checkup be given free of charge in […]
Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte has exhorted the government to accelerate plans to set up its own oil stockpile reserves to ensure stable supply and prices of petroleum products, more so now when the vaccine-driven economic recovery in the United States and Europe has started to ease travel restrictions and increase demand anew for fuel. […]