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The House committee on social services chaired by Rep. Sandra Eriguel, M.D. (2nd District, La Union) has approved a substitute bill that seeks to declare the Filipino Sign Language (FSL) as the national sign language of the Filipino deaf and the official sign language of government in all transactions involving the deaf, and mandating its […]
The House committee on basic education chaired by Rep. Ramon Durano IV (5th District, Cebu) approved a bill that will boost accessibility to education of underserved sectors of the country such as the out-of-school youth and persons with disabilities (PWDs). The unnumbered substitute bill consolidates House Bill 2733 filed by by Rep. Aurelio Gonzales (3rd […]
The House of Representatives unanimously approved on third and final reading House Bill 6617 or the proposed “Philippine HIV and AIDS Policy Act” which seeks to strengthen the government’s comprehensive policy on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) prevention, treatment, care and support, and to establish the Philippine National HIV and […]