Entitled:
AN ACT REDEFINING THE TERM `VETERAN' THEREBY AMENDING FURTHER REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6948 AS AMENDED
[ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 13TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2005 ]
3/17/2005	Prepared and submitted by the Committee on NATIONAL DEFENSE AND SECURITY with Senators VILLAR JR. and BIAZON, as authors, per Committee Report No. 18, recommending its approval in substitution of SBNos. 648 and 1285;
3/18/2005	Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
3/18/2005	Sponsors: Senators Biazon and Villar Jr.;
[ SECOND REGULAR SESSION, 13TH CONGRESS ]
8/16/2005	Assigned for consideration by Special Order;
8/16/2005	Sponsorship speech of Senator Biazon;
8/17/2005	Interpellation of Senator Enrile;
8/30/2005	Interpellation of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago;
8/30/2005	Period of interpellations closed;
9/21/2005	Period of committee amendments;
9/21/2005	Period of committee amendments closed;
9/21/2005	Period of individual amendments closed;
9/21/2005	Approved on Second Reading with amendments;
9/22/2005	Printed Copies were distributed to the Senators;
9/26/2005	Approved on Third Reading;
9/26/2005	In favor: (18) JOKER P. ARROYO, RODOLFO G. BIAZON, MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, LUISA "LOI" P. EJERCITO ESTRADA, JINGGOY P. EJERCITO-ESTRADA, JUAN PONCE ENRILE, JUAN M. FLAVIER, PANFILO M. LACSON, ALFREDO S. LIM, M. A. MADRIGAL, SERGIO R. OSMENA III, FRANCIS N. PANGILINAN, AQUILINO Q. PIMENTEL JR., RALPH G. RECTO, RAMON A. REVILLA JR., MAR ROXAS, MANUEL B. VILLAR JR. and FRANKLIN M. DRILON;
9/26/2005	Against: (None) ;
9/26/2005	Abstention: (None) ;
9/27/2005	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
[ THIRD REGULAR SESSION ]
[ 2006 ]
8/29/2006	House of Representatives requested the Senate for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1967 and HBN-4451, and designated Representatives Dumpit, Gidaya, Biazon and Mandanas, as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee (See: O.B. dated September 4, 2006);
11/13/2006	Senate agreed to a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1967 and HBN-4451, designating Senators Biazon, Lim and Gordon as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee;
12/19/2006	Conference Committee Report submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-1967, in consolidation with HBN-4451, be approved as reconciled;
12/19/2006	Sponsorship speech of Senator Biazon on the Conference Committee Report;
11/7/2006	House of Representatives elected Representative Villar as additional conferee to the Bicameral Conference Committee(See: O.B. dated November 13, 2006);
12/19/2006	Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate;
[ 2007 ]
2/5/2007	Conference Committee Report approved by the House of Representatives on January 29, 2007;
2/13/2007	Enrolled copy of the consolidated version of SBN-1967 and HBN-4451, already signed by the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives, received by the Senate;
2/19/2007	Enrolled copy of the consolidated version of SBN-1967 and HBN-4451, already signed by Senate Secretary Yabes and Senate President Villar, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines;
3/18/2007	Approved and signed into law by the President of the Philippines, Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and became;
3/18/2007	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9396