Entitled:
AN ACT CREATING THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, DEFINING ITS POWERS AND FUNCTIONS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
[ SECOND REGULAR SESSION, 16TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2015 ]
3/11/2015	Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, CIVIL SERVICE AND GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION, CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND REVISION OF CODES and FINANCE with Senator(s) LOREN B. LEGARDA, ANTONIO "SONNY" F. TRILLANES, JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO, TEOFISTO "TG" GUINGONA III, JUAN EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA, MIRIAM DEFENSOR SANTIAGO, PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV, JINGGOY P. EJERCITO-ESTRADA, FRANCIS "CHIZ" G. ESCUDERO and RALPH G. RECTO as author(s) per Committee Report No. 113, recommending its approval in substitution of SBNos. 358, 818, 1234, 2144, 2638, taking into consideration of SBNos. 53, 1091 and 1467;
3/16/2015	Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
3/16/2015	Sponsor: Senator RALPH G. RECTO;
3/16/2015	Transferred from the Calendar for Ordinary Business to the Calendar for Special Order;
3/16/2015	Sponsorship speech of Senator RALPH G. RECTO;
3/18/2015	Letter of Senator CYNTHIA A. VILLAR dated March 16, 2015, requesting that she be made a coauthor of this Bill, received by the LBIS;
5/19/2015	Interpellation of Senator SERGIO R. OSMENA III;
5/19/2015	Remarks of the Chair;
5/25/2015	Interpellation of Senator FERDINAND "BONGBONG" R. MARCOS;
5/25/2015	Period of interpellation closed;
5/26/2015	Period of committee amendments;
5/26/2015	Period of committee amendments closed;
5/27/2015	Printed copies with approved committee amendments as of May 26, 2015, distributed to the Senators;
5/27/2015	Period of individual amendments;
5/27/2015	Period of individual amendments closed;
5/27/2015	Approved on Second Reading with Amendments;
5/28/2015	Printed copies were distributed to the Senators;
6/1/2015	Approved on Third Reading;
6/1/2015	In favor: (12) JUAN EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA, PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV, MARIA LOURDES NANCY S. BINAY, FRANKLIN M. DRILON, JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO, TEOFISTO "TG" GUINGONA III, GREGORIO B. HONASAN II, AQUILINO KOKO III L. PIMENTEL, GRACE L. POE, RALPH G. RECTO, VICENTE C. SOTTO III and CYNTHIA A. VILLAR;
6/1/2015	Against: N o n e ;
6/1/2015	Abstention: N o n e ;
6/4/2015	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
12/15/2015	Senate adopted HBN-6198 as an amendment to SBN-2686; (Transmittal letter received by the House of Representatives on December 17, 2015);
[ 2016 ]
2/3/2016	Enrolled copies of HBN-6198 which was adopted as an amendment to SBN-2686, sent to the House of Representatives already signed by Senate Secretary Yabes and Senate President Drilon;
5/26/2016	Consolidated with HBN-6198 which was Approved and Signed into Law by the President of the Philippines, His Excellency, President Benigno S. Aquino III on May 23, 2016 and became
5/26/2016	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10844.
(Pursuant to paragraph g, Sec. 7, Rule V of the Rules of the Senate, R.A.No. 10844 (HBN-6198/SBN-2686) with the pertinent documents transmitted to the Legislative Records and Archives Service for safekeeping and preservation on June 14, 2016)
(The legislative history/plenary deliberations is prepared by the INDEXING, MONITORING AND LIS SECTION, LEGISLATIVE BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE; The data entry re conducted committee meetings/hearings, conducted technical working group, is prepared by the Committee concerned/Committee Affairs Bureau)