The House committee on appropriations approved on Monday the funding provisions of a substitute bill creating the Department of Filipinos Overseas and Foreign Employment.
The committee chaired by Davao City Rep. Isidro Ungab approved the appropriations provisions of the proposed “Department of Filipino Overseas Act of 2019,” authored by Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano.
Section 23 of the bill states that the amount needed for the initial implementation of the proposed measure shall be taken from the current year’s appropriations of the agencies, entities, divisions, sections or bodies subsumed or transferred to the Department by virtue of the proposed Act.
Thereafter, such sums, as may be necessary for its continued implementation, shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Batangas Rep. Mario Vittorio Mariño sponsored and defended the substitute bill in his capacity as chairman of the House committee on government reorganization.
He said the additional fund to create the Department of Filipinos Overseas and Foreign Employment is estimated at P5 billion.
https://politics.com.ph/appro-panel-okays-funding-provisos-in-ofw-department-bill/
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