Committee Membership

• Deputy Minority Leader, Ex-officio member of all Committees

• Ad Hoc Committee on Rules Re-Writing, Member

• SALN Review and Compliance Committee, Member

• Committee on Rules, Technical Working Group (TWG) Member, Review of Committee Reports

• Committee on Rules, TWG Member, House Bill No. 4727 or Death Penalty Law

• Committee on Legislative Franchises, TWG Member, Drafting of Internal Rules

• Committee on Style, TWG Member, House Resolution No. 59 or the resolution supporting the President Rodrigo Duterte in declaring a state of martial law and suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in the whole Mindanao.

• Committee on Ways and Means, TWG Member, House Bill No. 5636 or Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion

House Bills and Resolutions

• House Bill No. 4144, An Act Amending Section 145 (C) of the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) of 1997, as Amended (approved on third reading)

• House bill no. 4814, An Act Granting Amnesty in the Payment of Estate Tax (approved on third reading)

• House Bill No. 4815, An Act Simplifying the Estate Tax Rate Amending for the Purpose of Section 84 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as Amended

• House Bill No. 5636, Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion

1. With Speaker Pantaleon D. Alvarez, introduced tax exemption on cumulative bonuses and other benefits from P82,000 to P100,000

2. With regard to excise tax of automobiles, introduced 5 brackets from 4 brackets

3. Retained VAT exemptions on cooperatives

4. Fine-tuned the administrative and criminal liabilities(approved on third reading)

• House Resolution No. 8, Resolution of Both Houses Constituting the Senate and the House of Representatives, Seventeenth Congress, into a Constituent Assembly to Propose Revisions of the 1987 Constitution by Adopting a Federal Form of Government and For Other Purposes (with working draft)

Accomplishments    

In the past 10 years in the House of Representatives, ABS Partylist (Arts Business and Science Professionals) helped through different government agencies:

• around 1,500 students accessed the Student Financial Assistance Programs (STUFAPs);

• more or less 10,000 indigent families accessed social services from Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD);

• about 3,000 patients were referred to the Department of Health (DOH) under the Medical Assistance Program;

• initiated more or less 30 livelihood projects thru Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE); and

• more than 900 beneficiaries trained under the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Programs.

Above all, ABS Partylist is the instigator of the case Banat v. COMELEC. The Supreme Court revisited the Partylist Law interpretation wherein the said court granted that the 20% of the House of Representatives seats be allocated to Partylist Representatives or from 16 Representatives to 59 Representatives to date.