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AN ACT TO SPUR THE PLANTING OF BILLION TREES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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BILLION TREES ACT OF 2005
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Date Parliamentary status Senator(s) 2/8/2007 Sponsorship Speech Cayetano, Companera Pia S.
Legislative History
| House Bill/Resolution NO. HB04081 | |
| FULL TITLE : AN ACT TO SPUR THE PLANTING OF A BILLION TREES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES | |
| SHORT TITLE : "billion Trees Act Of 2005." | |
| ABSTRACT : "Billion Trees Act of 2005". The bill allocates at least one million hectares of open and denuded forest lands, private lands and idle portions of alienable and disposable lands for planting with forest and fruit tree species in the first five years of implementation of the program. | |
| PRINCIPAL AUTHOR/S : DE VENECIA, JOSE JR. C. | |
| DATE FILED : 2005-04-04 | |
| SIGNIFICANCE: NATIONAL | |
| CO-AUTHORS : | |
| 1. Jaworski | 2. Banaag |
| 3. Seachon-lanete | 4. Andaya |
| 5. Macarambon | 6. Barinaga |
| 7. Barbers | 8. Villarosa |
| 9. Gullas | 10. Espinosa |
| 11. Mercado | 12. Macias |
| 13. Lagbas | 14. Solis |
| 15. Vargas | 16. Lacson |
| 17. Amin | 18. Codilla |
| 19. Badelles | 20. Miranda |
| 21. Jaraula | 22. Mangudadatu |
| 23. Agbayani | 24. Tulagan |
| 25. Bersamin | |
| CO-AUTHORS (Journal Entries) : | |
| 1. Abayon (042 ) | |
| DATE CERTIFIED AS URGENT:2007-02-19 | |
| URGENT BILL? Yes | |
| DATE CERTIFIED AS URGENT:2007-02-19 | |
| COUNTERPART HOUSE BILL/CONCURRENT RESOLUTION: SB00285 | |
| URGENT SENATE BILL? Yes | |
| DATE CERTIFIED AS URGENT HOUSE BILL: 2007-02-08 | |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE | |
| COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 00622 | |
| SUBMITTED ON 2005-04-04 | |
| SUBMITTED BY: NATURAL RESOURCES, REFORESTATION, APPROPRIATIONS | |
| RECOMMENDATIONS: approval | |
| SUBSTITUTED BILLS: HB00280, HB03031 | |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES | |
| REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE ON RULES ON 2005-04-12 | |
| DATE INCLUDED IN OB: 2005-04-12 | |
| DATE CALENDARED : 2005-05-03 | |
| SECOND READING INFORMATION | |
| PERIOD OF SPONSORSHIP : 2005-05-04 | |
| DATE APPROVED ON SECOND READING : 2005-05-04 | |
| REMARKS : The Body approved to consider the Explanatory Note of the Bill as the sponsorship remarks. | |
| THIRD READING INFORMATION | |
| DATE COPY DISTRIBUTED TO MEMBERS: 2005-05-11 | |
| DATE APPROVED BY THE HOUSE ON THIRD READING :2005-06-06 | |
| HOUSE VOTES: YEAS:159 NAYS:0 ABSTAIN:.0 | |
| DATE TRANSMITTED TO THE SENATE: 2005-07-25 | |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE SENATE/HOUSE | |
| DATE RECEIVED BY THE SENATE: 2005-08-02 | |
| REMARKS : |
Senate Legislative History
Entitled: AN ACT TO SPUR THE PLANTING OF BILLION TREES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES [ SECOND REGULAR SESSION, 13TH CONGRESS ] [ 2005 ] 8/2/2005 Introduced by Representatives JOSE DE VENECIA, JR., JAWORSKI, BANAAG, et. al.; 8/2/2005 Filed in the Senate requesting for concurrence; 8/8/2005 Read on First Reading and Referred to the Committee(s) on ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; and FINANCE; [ 2007 ] 2/7/2007 Returned and submitted jointly by the Committees on Environment and Natural Resources; Local Government; Ways and Means; Finance; Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws; Cultural Communities; Education, Arts and Culture; and Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development per Committee Report No. 298, recommending its approval without amendment, taking into consideration SBNos. 218, 254, 285, 289, 728, 729, 1150, 1468, 1734 and 1870; SRNos. 135 and 138; Privilege Speech of Senator M. A. Madrigal, delivered on December 7, 2004, entitled: "A Juggernaut of Despoliation"; Privilege Speech of Senator Ramon "Bong" Revillar Jr., delivered on December 8, 2004, entitled: "In the Eye of the Storm: A Salute to the Filipino Spirit"; and the Privileged Speech of Senator Alfredo S. Lim, delivered on December 8, 2004, entitled: "The Unabated Rape and Destruction of Our Forests Must be Stopped Now, Lest Natures Wrath will Continue to Hound and Punish Us for the Our Transfressions"; 2/8/2007 Committee Report calendared for Ordinary Business; 2/8/2007 Sponsors: Senators (s) COMPANERA PIA S. CAYETANO, ALFREDO S. LIM, RALPH G. RECTO, FRANKLIN M. DRILON, RICHARD "DICK" J. GORDON, M. A. MADRIGAL, JUAN M. FLAVIER and RAMON B. MAGSAYSAY JR.; 2/8/2007 Assigned for consideration by Special Order; 2/8/2007 Sponsorship speech of Senator(s) COMPANERA PIA S. CAYETANO; [ THIRD SPECIAL SESSION ] 2/20/2007 Certified by the President of the Philippines for its immediate enactment on February 19, 2007;
Abstract
"Billion Trees Act of 2005". The bill allocates at least one million hectares of open and denuded forest lands, private lands and idle portions of alienable and disposable lands for planting with forest and fruit tree species in the first five years of implementation of the program.'
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