Entitled:
AN ACT PROHIBITING THE IMPOSITION OF EXPIRY DATES ON GIFT CHECKS, CERTIFICATES OR CARDS BY ISSUERS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
[ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 17TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2017 ]
5/23/2017	Prepared and submitted by the Committee on TRADE, COMMERCE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP with Senator JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI as author per Committee Report No. 104, recommending its approval in substitution of SBN-1340;
5/23/2017	Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
5/23/2017	Sponsor: Senator JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
5/23/2017	Transferred from the Calendar for Ordinary Business to the Calendar for Special Order;
5/23/2017	Sponsorship speech of Senator JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
7/26/2017	Interpellation of Senator FRANKLIN M. DRILON;
7/26/2017	Period of interpellation closed;
8/2/2017	Period of committee amendments closed;
8/2/2017	Period of individual amendments;
8/2/2017	Period of individual amendments closed;
8/2/2017	Printed copies, amended as of August 3, 2017, were distributed to the Senators;
8/7/2017	Approved on Second Reading with Amendments;
8/9/2017	Printed copies were distributed to the Senators;
8/14/2017	Approved on Third Reading;
8/14/2017	In favor: (22) JUAN EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA, PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV, MARIA LOURDES NANCY S. BINAY, FRANKLIN M. DRILON, JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO, FRANCIS "CHIZ" G. ESCUDERO, SHERWIN T. GATCHALIAN, RICHARD J. GORDON, GREGORIO B. HONASAN II, RISA HONTIVEROS, PANFILO M. LACSON, LOREN B. LEGARDA, EMMANUEL "MANNY" D. PACQUIAO, FRANCIS N. PANGILINAN, AQUILINO KOKO III L. PIMENTEL, GRACE L. POE, RALPH G. RECTO, VICENTE C. SOTTO III, ANTONIO "SONNY" F. TRILLANES, JOEL VILLANUEVA, CYNTHIA A. VILLAR and JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
8/14/2017	Against: (None) ;
8/14/2017	Abstention: (None) ;
8/15/2017	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
9/20/2017	Senate designated Senators Zubiri, Gatchalian, Villar, Angara and Aquino IV as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1466 and HBN-6016;
9/25/2017	House of Representatives designated Representatives Ferjenel G. Biron, M.D., Xavier Jesus D. Romualdo, Rosanna Ria Vergara, Manuel F. Zubiri, Winston Winnie Castelo, Kuya Jose Antonio R. Sy-Alvarado, Gus S. Tambunting, Jose Christopher Y. Belmonte, Vini Nola A. Ortega and Arlene B. Arcillas as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of HBN-6016 and SBN-1466 on September 18, 2017;
10/11/2017	Conference Committee Report on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1466 and HBN-6016, submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-1466, in consolidation with HBN-6016, be approved as reconciled;
10/11/2017	Sponsorship speech on the conference committee report of Senator JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
10/11/2017	Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate;
10/18/2017	Conference Committee Report Approved by the House of Representatives on October 10, 2017;(See: O.B. dated November 20, 2017);
FINAL TITLE: AN ACT REGULATING THE ISSUANCE, USE AND REDEMPTION OF GIFT CHECKS
11/20/2017	Letter for Speaker Pantaleon D. Alvarez, dated November 16, 2017, transmitting nine(9) enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1466 and HBN-6016 for the signature of the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives;
11/23/2017	Letter from Secretary General Atty. Cesar S. Pareja, dated November 22, 2017, returning eight(8) enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1466 and HBN-6016 which were signed by the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives;
11/28/2017	Enrolled copies of SBN-1466 and HBN-6016, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines through PLLO for the signature and approval of His Excellency, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte;
[ 2018 ]
1/30/2018	Approved and signed into law, in consolidation with HBN-6016, by the President of the Philippines, His Excellency President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on December 19, 2017 and became
1/30/2018	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10962.
(Pursuant to paragraph g, Sec. 7, Rule V of the Rules of the Senate, R.A. No. 10962 (SBN-1466/HBN-6016), with pertinent documents, transmitted to the Archives for safekeeping and preservation on January 3, 2018)
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