Full Title
AN ACT REPEALING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE ANTI-SUBVERSION ACT
Digital Resource
Senate Bill No.
S. No. 508
House Bill
Legislative History (PDF)
Plenary Deliberations
Date of Approval
September 22, 1992

Legislative History

Legislative History
July 29, 1992 - Introduced by Sen. ROCO.
August 5, 1992 - Read on First Reading and referred to the Committee (s) on - CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS, REVISION OF CODES AND LAWS; and JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS.
August 11, 1992 Likewise referred to the Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation on motion of Senator Tañada.
August 26, 1992 Returned jointly by the Committees on Constitutional Amendments, Revision of Codes and Laws: Justice and Human Rights: National Defense and Security; and Peace, Unification and Reconciliation per Ctte. Rpt. No. 3, recommending its approval without amendment in consolidation with SBN-510 and SBN-587, with Senators Roco, Mercado, Shahani, Biazon, Lina, Jr., and Tañada as authors thereof;
August 27, 1992 - Submitted to the Senate;
- Assigned for consideration by Special Order;
- Submitted said Committee Report to the Senate.
August 31, 1992

- Sponsorship Speech of Senators Lina, Jr. and Roco;

- Interpellation of Senators Guingona, Jr., Tolentino, and Biazon;
- Inquiries of Senator Tolentino;
- Inquiry of the Chair;
- Period of interpellations closed.

September 1, 1992 - Period of amendments;
- Passed on Second Reading with amendments;
- Certified by the President of the Philippines for immediate enactment;
- Period of individual amendments;
- Period of individual amendments closed
- Passed on Second Reading with amendments;
- Senators Guingona, Jr., Coseteng, Shahani, Romulo and Herrera were made coauthors as manifested by Senator Lina, Jr.;
- Printed copies were distributed to the Senators.
September 3, 1992 House of Representatives requested the Senate for a conference on disagreeing provisions of SBN-508 and HBN-318, designating Congressmen Ermita, Golez, Vergara, Abueg, Jr., Perez (H.), Candazo and Alfelor, Jr. as its conferees;
September 4, 1992 - Passed on Third Reading;
- In favor: (19) Alvarez, Angara, Aquino, Gonzales,
Guingona, Jr., Herrera, Lina, Jr., Maceda, Mercado, Ople Osmeñía, Rasul, Roco, Romulo, Shahani, Sotto, Tañada, Tatad and Tolentino; Against: None; Abstention: None;
- Senator Romulo manifested that Senators Coseteng and Biazon voted in favor of the bill;
September 7, 1992

- Sent to the House of Representatives for concurrence;

- Senate accepted the request of the House of Representatives for a conference. designating Senators Lina, Jr., Roco, Mercado, Shahani, and Maceda as its conferees;
- Conference Committee recommended that SBN-508 in consolidation with HBN-318 be approved;
- Conference Committee Report approved by the Senate;
- Conference Committee Report approved by the House of Representatives;
- The bill was presented to the President of the Philippines for signature;

Septembe 22, 1992 - Approved and Signed by the President of the Philippines;

 

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance Type
Bill Note
Repeal Note
Republic Act No. 1700

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette volume 88 number 43 (October 26, 1992) page 6811

Full Text of Issuance

S. No. 508 H. No. 318 / 88 OG No. 43, 6811 (Oct. 26, 1992) ; 3 VLD 372 2d

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7636, September 22, 1992 ]

AN ACT REPEALING REPUBLIC ACT NUMBERED ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE ANTI-SUBVERSION ACT

 

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Republic Act Numbered One Thousand Seven Hundred (R. A. No. 1700), otherwise known as the Anti-Subversion Act, as revived by Executive Order Numbered One Hundred Sixty-Seven (E.O. No. 167) and subsequently amended by Executive Order Numbered Two Hundred Seventy-Six (E.O. No. 276) is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. This Act does not in any manner repeal, amend or modify the provisions of the Revised Penal Code.

SEC. 3. Presidential Decree Nos. 885,1736,1835 and 1975 remain repealed, and all other laws, presidential decrees, letters of instruction, and other issuances, orders, rules and regulations inconsistent with this Act are hereby likewise repealed.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved, September 22, 1992.

 

 

 

 

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