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Several proposals awarding telecommunication and broadcast corporations legislative franchises were adopted on third and final reading by the Senate on Monday.

The passed House bills, which were sponsored by Senate Public Services Committee chairwoman Senator Grace Poe, intended to give and renew legislative franchises to institutions and enterprises so that they may operate in different parts of the country.

House Bill No. (HBN) 9384 proposes to expand the Davao City government’s radio broadcasting station franchise, as well as franchises for Mount Apo Science Foundation College Inc. (HBN 10212), Capricom Broadcasting Network Corp. (HBN 10192), Amapola Broadcasting System (HBN 10196), South Cotabato Communications Corp. (HBN 10123), Prime Broadcasting Network Inc. (HBN 10124), and the National Council of Churches (HBN 10211).

On the third and final reading, the Senate also approved the legislative franchises of Ismo Inc. (HBN 8971), Aspire Media Technologies and Ventures Inc. (HBN 10169), Linkserve Telecommunications Network Inc. (HBN 10193), Derecho Telecommunications Inc. (HBN 10194), Unicorn Communications Corp. (HBN 10195), Purple Flower Telecommunication Corp. (HBN 10197), Calapan Telephone System Inc. (HBN 8975), Bicol Telephone and

Meanwhile, the Senate passed local bills to establish, convert, and modernize the Land Transportation Office (LTO) local offices in 32 areas throughout the Philippines.

The provinces of Isabela, Nueva Ecija, Camarines Norte, Negros Occidentales, Cebu, Iloilo, Zamboanga del Sur, and Bukidnon, among others, have LTO offices.

Similarly, the Senate approved three House bills to construct Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board offices in Puerto Princesa, Palawan (HBN 2590), Bacoor City, Cavite (HBN 4560), and Dasmarias, Cavite (HBN 4560). (HBN 5488).

Senate Bill 2421, offering benefits and allowances to Covid-19 healthcare personnel, was also adopted on the third and final reading by the Senate (HCWs).

Senator Sonny Angara, the bill’s sponsor, and author stated that there should no longer be any barriers to HCWs receiving their well-deserved benefits.

Angara and Senator Richard Gordon filed the measure in response to the Department of Health’s (DOH) request for the adoption of a law that will assure the continued grant of benefits to HCWs under the now-defunct Bayanihan laws.

“While it was clear to proponents of the Bayanihan laws in Congress that the grant of benefits to our health workers should continue for as long as the President’s declared state of national emergency is in place,” Angara said, “the expiration of those laws became a cause of delay for the delivery of those benefits, which is what SB 2421 aims to address.”

Angara stated that the benefits for HCWs will be provided even after the law is enacted, for as long as the state of a national public health emergency is in place.

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