Representative Roy Seneres (OFW Family partylist) is pushing for the passage of a measure that would disallow the collection of any fee from departing overseas Filipino workers as a precondition for them to leave the country.
The responsibility of providing health and social welfare services should be re-centralized and reverted to the national government due to rising health care costs that many local government units (LGUs) cannot afford, Representative Magnolia Rosa Antonino-Nadres said.
Partylist lawmaker Jesulito Manalo, along with three other congressmen, have sought an investigation into the plight of depositors of small banks ordered permanently closed by the Monetary Board in the past 16 years.
Rep. Enrique Garcia Jr. of the National Unity Party (NUP) has proposed the creation of a planning and implementing agency that will integrate and harmonize the delivery of certain basic services, including enforcement of traffic laws, between and among the cities and municipalities of the province of Bataan.
A partylist congressman has proposed stiff penalties, including prison terms, for persons found operating or owning colorum public utility vehicles.