LEDAC COMMON LEGISLATIVE AGENDA (CLA) FOR THE 19TH CONGRESS

As of February 21, 2025

Priority bills for passage before the end of 19th Congress

TOP PRIORITY

  1. Amendments to the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA): Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management (PSALM) Extension
  2. Capital Markets Efficiency Promotion Act (CMEPA)*
  3. Amendments to the Foreign Investors’ Long-Term Lease Act
  4. Rationalization of the Mining Fiscal Regime
  5. Accelerated and Reformed Right-of-Way (ARROW) Act
  6. Department of Water Resources
  7. Excise Tax on Single-Use Plastics
  8. Amendments to the EPIRA: Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) Strengthening

In Advanced Stages

8. New Government Auditing Code

SECOND PRIORITY

  1. Blue Economy Act
  2. Amendments to the Universal Health Care Act
  3. E-Government Act / E-Governance Act
  4. Konektadong Pinoy Act
  5. Mandatory Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC)
  6. Unified System of Separation, Retirement and Pension of Military and Uniformed Personnel
  7. Waste-to-Energy Bill
  8. Philippine Immigration Act
  9. Amendments to the Agrarian Reform Law

Remaining bills

  1. Free Legal Assistance for Military and Uniformed Personnel
  2. Magna Carta of Barangay Health Workers
  3. Virology Institute of the Philippines
  4. National Government Rightsizing Program
  5. Amendments to the Cooperative Code
  6. Comprehensive Infrastructure Development Master Plan
  7. National Disease Prevention Management Authority
  8. Medical Reserve Corps / Health Emergency Auxiliary Reinforcement Team (HEART)
  9. Eastern Visayas Development Authority
  10. National Land Use Act
  11. Government Financial Institutions Unified Initiatives to Distressed Enterprises for Economic Recovery (GUIDE)
  12. Leyte Ecological Industrial Zone
  13. Amendments to the Bank Deposits Secrecy Law
  14. Amendments to the Fisheries Code
  15. Budget Modernization Bill
  16. National Defense Act

Enacted

  1. SIM Card Registration Act
  2. Postponement of Barangay/SK Elections
  3. Strengthening Professionalism in the AFP
  4. New Agrarian Emancipation Act
  5. Maharlika Investment Fund
  6. Regional Specialty Hospitals
  7. Trabaho Para sa Bayan Act
  8. Automatic Income Classification of LGUs
  9. Public-Private Partnership Code of the Philippines
  10. Internet Transactions Act
  11. Ease of Paying Taxes Act
  12. Tatak Pinoy (Proudly Filipino) Act
  13. New Philippine Passport Act
  14. Philippine Salt Industry Development Act
  15. Philippine Ecosystem and Natural Capital Accounting System (PENCAS)
  16. Negros Island Region
  17. Real Property Valuation and Assessment Reform Act
  18. New Government Procurement Act (NGPA)
  19. Anti-Financial Accounts Scamming Act (AFASA)
  20. Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers
  21. Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act
  22. Value-Added Tax (VAT) on Digital Services Law
  23. Self-Reliant Defense Posture (SRDP) Revitalization Act
  24. Academic Recovery and Accessible Learning (ARAL) Act
  25. Enterprise-Based Education and Training (EBET) Framework Act 
  26. Philippine Maritime Zones Act 
  27. Philippine Archipelagic Sea Lanes Act
  28. Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises to Maximize Opportunities for Reinvigorating the Economy (CREATE MORE) Act
  29. Amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law
  30. Philippine Natural Gas Industry Development Act

*Consolidated with the Passive Income and Financial Intermediary Taxation Act (PFITA)