A proposed bill (text shown below) for the reconstruction and recovery of Bohol-Cebu and Negros Oriental that suffered from enormously damaging, killer earthquakes enjoins the government to create the Bohol-Cebu-Negros Reconstruction Commission and to allocate no less than Philippine Pesos Thirty Billion for this and other purposes.
This site proposes the bill to be revised to include all of Visayas but to take care of affected areas only, particularly those provinces in Eastern, Western and Central Visayas affected also by typhoons.
The proposed budgetary allocation be changed from PHP30-Billion to Philippine Pesos One Hundred Fifty Billion (PHP150-B). The law must also be made retroactive.
Any actions respective to the current response to the damage and other effects of calamities such as what is happening now in Tacloban City where thousands are dead, hundreds of thousands are hungry, there is killing, looting, anarchy in the streets, relief is short, power and communications are down, everything has gone haywire, must be charged to the funds of this Commission.
However, the Philippine Legislative Branch must go to work soon and fast. Any waiting on the wings, any slippages as had been done and now being regretted by the Executive Branch, should be avoided. The concerned are admonished to act now for the welfare of the people.
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