Entitled:
AN ACT PROMOTING THE REDUCTION OF POVERTY THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
[ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 16TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2013 ]
12/17/2013	Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on TRADE, COMMERCE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, LOCAL GOVERNMENT; BANKS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CURRENCIES; WAYS AND MEANS; ECONOMIC AFFAIRS; and FINANCE with Senator(s) SERGIO R. OSMENA III, RALPH G. RECTO, PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV, MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, JINGGOY P. EJERCITO-ESTRADA, GRACE L. POE and CYNTHIA A. VILLAR as author(s) per Committee Report No. 10, recommending its approval in substitution of SBNos. 169, 253, 615, 1028, 1254 and 1593;
12/17/2013	Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
12/17/2013	Sponsor: Senator PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV;
12/17/2013	Transferred from the Calendar for Ordinary Business to the Calendar for Special Order;
12/17/2013	Sponsorship speech of Senator PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV;
[ 2014 ]
1/28/2014	Interpellation of Senator(s) JUAN EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA and ALAN PETER COMPANERO S. CAYETANO;
1/28/2014	Remarks of Senator CYNTHIA A. VILLAR;
2/12/2014	Interpellation of Senator RALPH G. RECTO;
2/12/2014	Period of interpellation closed;
2/12/2014	Period of committee amendments;
2/18/2014	Printed copies of SBN-2046 with approved committee amendments as of February 12,2014 distributed to the Senators;
2/19/2014	Period of committee amendments;
2/19/2014	Period of committee amendments closed;
2/19/2014	Period of individual amendments;
2/19/2014	Period of individual amendments closed;
2/19/2014	Manifestation of Senator Cayetano (A.P.) that all Senators present be made cosponsors: Senator(s) PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV, JUAN EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA, MARIA LOURDES NANCY S. BINAY, ALAN PETER COMPANERO 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, VICENTE C. SOTTO III, ANTONIO "SONNY" F. TRILLANES and CYNTHIA A. VILLAR;
2/19/2014	Approved on Second Reading with Amendments;
2/20/2014	Printed copies were distributed to the Senators;
2/24/2014	Approved on Third Reading;
2/24/2014	In favor: (20) 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, 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;
2/24/2014	Against: N o n e;
2/24/2014	Abstention: N o n e;
2/25/2014	By virtue of the approved motion of Senator Cayetano (A.) on the process of coauthorship on January 21, 2014, letter of Senator LOREN B. LEGARDA dated February 24, 2014, requesting that she be made coauthor of this Bill, received by the LBIS;
2/25/2014	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
6/9/2014	Senate requested the House of Representatives for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-2046 and HBN-4595, designating Senators Sonny M. Angara, Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aquino IV, Joseph Victor G. Ejercito as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee;
6/10/2014	House of Representatives requested the Senate for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-2046 and HBN-4595, designating Representatives Neil Benedict A. Montejo, Mark A. Villar, Angelina "Helen" D.L. Tan, Ma. Victoria R. Sy-Alvarado and Lino S. Cayetano as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on June 9, 2014;
6/10/2014	Conference Committee Report Approved by the House of Representatives; (O.B. dated August 4, 2014)
6/11/2014	Conference Committee Report submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-2046, in consolidation with HBN-4595, be approved as reconciled;
6/11/2014	Sponsorship speech on the Conference Committee Report of Senator PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV;
6/11/2014	Interpellation of Senator RALPH G. RECTO on the Conference Committee Report;
6/11/2014	Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate;
6/11/2014	Senator Recto registered a negative vote on the Conference Committee Report on SBN-2046 and HBN-4595;
6/16/2014	Communication informing the House of Representatives that the Senate approved the Conference Committee Report on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-2046 and HBN-4595 on June 11, 2014;
6/23/2014	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-2046 and HBN-4595, sent to the House of Representatives for the signature of the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives;
6/25/2014	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-2046 and HBN-4595, received by the Senate which were already signed by the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives;
6/26/2014	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-2046 and HBN-4595, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines, through PLLO, for the signature and approval of His Excellency, President Benigno S. Aquino III;
FINAL TITLE: AN ACT PROMOTING JOB GENERATION AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
7/22/2014	Approved and signed into law, in consolidation with HBN-4595, by the President of the Philippines, His Excellency President Benigno S. Aquino III on July 15, 2014, and became; (See: O.B. dated August 6, 2014)
7/22/2014	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10644.
(Pursuant to paragraph g, Sec. 7, Rule V of the Rules of the Senate, R.A.No. 10644 (SBN-2046 and HBN-4595) with pertinent documents transmitted to the Legislative Records and Archives Service for safekeeping and preservation on August 12, 2014)
(Prepared by the Indexing, Monitoring and LIS Section, Legislative Bills and Index Service)