Cavite 1st District Rep. Ramon ‘Jolo’ Revilla III already filed his priority bills in the Lower House. Photo by Dennis Abrina
Cavite solon files 10 priority bills on 1st day of 19th Congress
NOVELETA, Cavite – Newly elected 1st District Representative Ramon “Jolo” Revilla III filed his ten priority bills in the House of Representatives for the 19th Congress Monday, July 4, 2022, in Quezon City.
The “Magna Carta” for barangay officials and barangay health workers, as well as the salary increase of employees in the private sector, are just some of his priority bills filed in the Lower House.
One of the first things laid out on the legislative agenda of Revilla is focused on grassroots and countryside development, economic growth, and workers’ welfare.
With the desire to make Cavite City and the first district of Cavite one of the major “economic hubs” in the country, the Cavite solon seeks to establish the Sangley Point Special Economic Zone Authority to recognize the area “as an industrial, commercial, tourism, and investment zone.”
Revilla revealed that his “agenda” is to raise idle land taxes or those taxes on unused land to encourage those who own it to make their assets useful to help with economic development.
“The importance of health reforms by filing HB 509 to make Kawit Kalayaan Hospital a District Hospital (Level III). I also submitted the first bill (HB 518) that stipulates sanitary leave or period leave entitlement to protect and make women more comfortable in their work,” Revilla said.
The ten priority bills are as follows: House Bill (HB) 509 – An act upgrading the Kawit Kalayaan Hospital in Kawit, Cavite to a district hospital and increasing its bed capacity to 100; HB 510 – An act increasing the tax on idle lands; HB 511 – An act creating the position of barangay nutrition worker in every barangay and providing incentives; HB 512 – An act providing for the Magna Carta for barangay officials; HB 513 – An act providing for the Magna Carta for barangay health workers; HB 514 – An act providing for a P150 daily across-the-board increase in the salary rates of employees and workers in the private sector.
HB 515 – An act postponing the December 2022 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections; HB 516 – An act mandating and institutionalizing rollover data allocation scheme and providing for penalties; HB 517 – An act establishing a special economic zone in the City of Cavite, Province of Cavite, creating for the purpose the Sangley Point Special Economic Zone Authority; and HB 518 – An act granting sanitary leave of one day a month with 100% daily remuneration to all female employees.
“Tiyak na tutuparin ko ang aking mga ipinangako noong panahon ng kampanya at titiyaking iaangat ang antas ng kabuhayan ng kanyang mga nasasakupan,” Rep. Jolo Revilla said in his official social media post.
Revilla stated that it is high time that “we respond to these sectors’ needs and act swiftly to address the pressing issues in the district and the country as a whole.”
