Entitled:
AN ACT DECLARING ARNIS AS THE NATIONAL SPORT OF THE PHILIPPINES
[ SECOND REGULAR SESSION, 14TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2009 ]
5/28/2009	Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on EDUCATION, ARTS AND CULTURE and GAMES, AMUSEMENT AND SPORTS with Senator(s) MANUEL "LITO" M. LAPID, JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI and MAR ROXAS as author(s) per Committee Report No. 515, recommending its approval in substitution of SBNos. 207 and 1424;
6/2/2009	Sponsors: Senator(s) MAR ROXAS, MANUEL "LITO" M. LAPID and JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
6/2/2009	Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
6/2/2009	Transferred from Ordinary Business to Special Order;
6/2/2009	Sponsorship speech of Senator ZUBIRI;
6/2/2009	Senators RICHARD "DICK" GORDON, RAMON B. REVILLA, JR., and AQUILINO Q. PIMENTEL JR. were made coauthors;
6/2/2009	Period of committee amendments;
6/2/2009	Period of committee amendments closed;
6/2/2009	Period of individual amendments closed;
6/2/2009	Approved on Second Reading with Amendments;
6/3/2009	Printed copies were distributed to the Senators;
7/28/2009	Approved on Third Reading;
7/28/2009	In favor: (17) EDGARDO J. ANGARA, BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, JOKER P. ARROYO, RODOLFO G. BIAZON, "COMPANERA" PIA S. CAYETANO, JINGGOY P. EJERCITO-ESTRADA, JUAN PONCE ENRILE, FRANCIS "CHIZ" G. ESCUDERO, RICHARD "DICK" J. GORDON, PANFILO M. LACSON, MANUEL "LITO" M. LAPID, LOREN B. LEGARDA, M. A. MADRIGAL, FRANCIS N. PANGILINAN, AQUILINO Q. PIMENTEL JR., RAMON A. REVILLA JR. and JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
7/28/2009	Against: N o n e;
7/28/2009	Abstention: N o n e;
8/10/2009	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
9/29/2009	Senate requested the House of Representatives for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-3288 and HBN-6516, and designated Senators Zubiri, Roxas, Gordon and Alan Peter Companero S. Cayetano as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee;
10/6/2009	House of Representatives agreed to a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-3288 and HBN-6516, and designated Representatives Jalosjos, Pingoy Jr., Teves, Castelo-Daza and Palatino as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on September 30, 2009;
10/14/2009	Conference Committee Report submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-3288, in consolidation with HBN-6516, be approved as reconciled;
10/14/2009	Sponsorship speech on the conference committee report of Senator(s) JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
10/14/2009	Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate;
10/15/2009	Conference Committee Report approved by the House of Representatives; (See: O.B. dated November 9, 2009);
11/4/2009	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-3288 and HBN-6516, sent back to the House of Representatives for the signature of the Speaker and the Secretary General;
11/12/2009	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-3288 and HBN-6516, received by the Senate already signed by the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives;
11/16/2009	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-3288 and HBN-6516, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines, through PLLO, for the signature and approval of Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo;
[ 2010 ]
1/20/2010	Approved and signed into law by the President of the Philippines, Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on December 11, 2009, and became;
1/20/2010	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9850.