Entitled:
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A UNIVERSAL NEWBORN HEARING SCREENING PROGRAM FOR THE PREVENTION, EARLY DIAGNOSIS AND INTERVENTION OF HEARING LOSS AMONG CHILDREN
[ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 14TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2008 ]
6/10/2008	Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHY and FINANCE with Senator(s) MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, LOREN B. LEGARDA and "COMPANERA" PIA S. CAYETANO as author(s) per Committee Report No. 71, recommending its approval in substitution of SBNos. 1209 and 1372;
6/11/2008	Sponsor: Senator LOREN B. LEGARDA;
6/11/2008	Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
6/11/2008	Transferred from Ordinary Business to Special Order;
6/11/2008	Sponsorship speech of Senator LOREN B. LEGARDA;
8/11/2008	Senator Lapid was made as co-author;
9/8/2008	Interpellation of Senator(s) MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, M. A. MADRIGAL and RICHARD "DICK" J. GORDON;
9/8/2008	Period of interpellation closed;
9/23/2008	Period of committee amendments;
9/23/2008	Period of committee amendments closed;
9/23/2008	Parliamentary inquiry of Senator Enrile re appropriations; Remarks of Senator Pimentel, Jr.;
9/23/2008	Period of individual amendments closed;
9/23/2008	Approved on Second Reading with Amendments;
9/24/2008	Printed copies were distributed to the Senators;
9/29/2008	Approved on Third Reading;
10/2/2008	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
[ 2009 ]
5/27/2009	Senate requested the House of Representatives for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-2390 and HBN-2677, and designated Senators LOREN LEGARDA, LACSON and CAYETANO (P.) as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee;
6/2/2009	House of Representatives agreed to the request of the Senate for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-2390 and HBN-2677, and designated Representatives Pingoy, Jr. A(.), Santiago III (N.), Garin (J.), Pichay (P.), Uy (R.), Piñol Jr. (B.), and Cayetano (M.L.) as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on May 28, 2009;
6/3/2009	Conference Committee Report submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-2390, in consolidation with HBN-2677, be approved as reconciled;
6/3/2009	Sponsorship speech of Senator LEGARDA on the Conference Committee Report;
6/3/2009	Conference Committee Report approved by the Senate;
6/3/2009	Conference Committee Report approved by the House of Representatives;
6/29/2009	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-2390 and HBN-2677, sent to the House of Representatives for the signature of the Speaker and the Secretary General;
7/13/2009	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-2390 and HBN-2677, received by the Senate which were already signed by Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives;
7/15/2009	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-2390 and HBN-2677, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines through PLLO, for the signature and approval of Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo;
8/12/2009	Approved and signed into law by the President of the Philippines, Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and became; (See: O.B. dated August 25, 2009);
8/12/2009	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9709.