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Long Title
FULL TITLE : AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 3 OF REPUBLIC ACT 8353, ALSO KNOWN AS THE ANTI-RAPE LAW OF 1997
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Date filed
June 30, 2016
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Legislative History
| House Bill/Resolution NO. HB00097 | |
| FULL TITLE : AN ACT AMENDING CHAPTER 3 OF REPUBLIC ACT 8353, ALSO KNOWN AS THE ANTI-RAPE LAW OF 1997 | |
| ABSTRACT : Seeks to rectify the apparent failure of the law in defining consent from the perspective of the victim which paved the way for some judges to rule that the victims had consented to the sexual intrusion when they were not able to put up any amount of resistance, thus there is a need for the law to zero-in on the absence of consent as the central element in the crime of rape. | |
| PRINCIPAL AUTHOR/S : DE JESUS, EMMI A., BROSAS, ARLENE D. | |
| DATE FILED : 2016-06-30 | |
| SIGNIFICANCE: NATIONAL | |
| NATURE : Reform | |
| CO-AUTHORS (Journal Entries) : | |
| 1. Zarate (007 2016-08-08) | 2. Castro (F.L.) (010 2016-08-15) |
| 3. Elago (010 2016-08-15) | 4. Panotes (021 2016-09-13) |
| 5. Roman (027 2016-09-27) | 6. Casilao (049 2016-11-28) |
| 7. Tinio (085 2017-05-03) | 8. Roa-Puno (091 2017-05-17) |
| 9. Salon (010 2017-08-14) | |
| ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE ON RULES | |
| REFERRAL TO THE COMMITTEE ON REVISION OF LAWS ON 2016-07-26 |
Abstract
Seeks to rectify the apparent failure of the law in defining consent from the perspective of the victim which paved the way for some judges to rule that the victims had consented to the sexual intrusion when they were not able to put up any amount of resistance, thus there is a need for the law to zero-in on the absence of consent as the central element in the crime of rape
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