Bill Type
Long Title
AN ACT EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIFE OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS FOR ANOTHER FIFTY (50) YEARS, FURTHER AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4156, ENTITLED 'AN ACT CREATING THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS, PRESCRIBING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES, AND PROVIDING FOR THE NECESSARY FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATIONS', AS AMENDED
Short Title
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS
Co-sponsor
Date filed
September 10, 2013
Scope
Legislative Status
Legislative Status Date
Session Sequence No.
30
Session Type
Document Certification

Committee Details

Secondary Committee
Committee Report No.
22

Floor Activity

Floor Activity
Date Parliamentary status Senator(s)
5/6/2014 Co-Sponsorship Speech Recto, Ralph G.
5/6/2014 Sponsorship Speech Villar, Cynthia A.
5/12/2014 Period of Individual Amendments Closed
5/12/2014 Period of Committee Amendments Closed
5/12/2014 Period of Interpellation Closed
5/12/2014 Period of Committee Amendments
5/12/2014 Period of Individual Amendments
5/14/2014 Interpellation Enrile, Juan Ponce

Legislative History

Entitled:
AN ACT EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIFE OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS FOR ANOTHER FIFTY (50) YEARS, FURTHER AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4156, ENTITLED 'AN ACT CREATING THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS, PRESCRIBING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES, AND PROVIDING FOR THE NECESSARY FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATIONS', AS AMENDED
[ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 16TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2013 ]
10/9/2013 Introduced by Senator RALPH G. RECTO;
10/22/2013 Read on First Reading and Referred to the Committee(s) on GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES; and PUBLIC SERVICES;
[ 2014 ]
4/2/2014 By virtue of the approved motion of Senator Cayetano (A.) on the process of coauthorship on January 21, 2014, letter of Senator CYNTHIA A. VILLAR dated March 31, 2014, requesting that she be made coauthor of this Bill, received by the LBIS;
4/29/2014 Letter of Senator FRANCIS "CHIZ" G. ESCUDERO dated April 22, 2014, requesting that he be made coauthor of this Bill, received by the LBIS;
5/5/2014 Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on GOVERNMENT CORPORATIONS AND PUBLIC ENTERPRISES and PUBLIC SERVICES per Committee Report No. 22, recommending its approval with amendments;
5/6/2014 Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
5/6/2014 Sponsors: Senator(s) CYNTHIA A. VILLAR, RALPH G. RECTO;
5/6/2014 Transferred from the Calendar for Ordinary Business to the Calendar for Special Order;
5/6/2014 Sponsorship speech of Senator CYNTHIA A. VILLAR;
5/6/2014 Co-sponsorship speech of Senator RALPH G. RECTO;
5/12/2014 Period of interpellation closed;
5/12/2014 Period of committee amendments;
5/12/2014 Period of committee amendments closed;
5/12/2014 Period of individual amendments;
5/12/2014 Period of individual amendments closed;
5/12/2014 Approved on Second Reading with Amendments;
5/12/2014 Senators PIA S. CAYETANO, GREGORIO B. HONASAN II, ANTONIO "SONNY" F. TRILLANES and ALAN PETER COMPANERO S. CAYETANO were made co-authors;
5/13/2014 Printed Copies were distributed to the Senators;
5/19/2014 Approved on Third Reading;
5/19/2014 In favor: (22) JUAN EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA, PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV, MARIA LOURDES NANCY S. BINAY, ALAN PETER COMPANERO S. CAYETANO, PIA S. CAYETANO, FRANKLIN M. DRILON, JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO, JINGGOY P. EJERCITO-ESTRADA, JUAN PONCE ENRILE, FRANCIS "CHIZ" G. ESCUDERO, TEOFISTO "TG" GUINGONA III, GREGORIO B. HONASAN II, MANUEL "LITO" M. LAPID, LOREN B. LEGARDA, FERDINAND "BONGBONG" R. MARCOS, SERGIO R. OSMENA III, AQUILINO KOKO III L. PIMENTEL, GRACE L. POE, RALPH G. RECTO, RAMON A. REVILLA JR., VICENTE C. SOTTO III and CYNTHIA A. VILLAR;
5/19/2014 Against: N o n e;
5/19/2014 Abstention: N o n e;
5/20/2014 Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
5/27/2014 House of Representatives adopted Section 2 of SBN-1831 as an amendment to HBN-4089 on May 21, 2014;
6/3/2014 Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of HBN-4089 and SBN-1831, received by the Senate for the signature of Secretary Yabes and Senate President Drilon;
6/3/2014 Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of HBN-4089 and SBN-1831, returned to the House of Representatives already signed by Senate Secretary Yabes and Senate President Drilon;
FINAL TITLE:AN ACT EXTENDING THE CORPORATE LIFE OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS FOR ANOTHER FIFTY (50) YEARS, FURTHER AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 4156, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED AN ACT CREATING THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL RAILWAYS, PRESCRIBING ITS POWERS, FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES, AND PROVIDING FOR THE NECESSARY FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATION
6/16/2014 Consolidated with HBN-4089 which was Approved and Signed into Law by the President of the Philippines, His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino III, and became; (See: O.B. dated August 6, 2014)
6/16/2014 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10638
(Pursuant to paragraph g, Sec. 7, Rule V of the Rules of the Senate, R.A.No. 10638 (HBN-4089 and SBN-1831) with pertinent documents transmitted to the Legislative Records and Archives Service for safekeeping and preservation on July 14, 2014)
(Prepared by the Indexing, Monitoring and LIS Section, Legislative Bills and Index Service)

President's Action

Consolidated with Approved Bill
Date Received by the President
Date Signed by the President