Vibal, Mafeo R. <br/><br/>
How bills become Philippine laws / 
by Mafeo R. Vidal 
 - Mandaluyog City:  Anvil Publishing Inc.,  c2012 
 - xv,78p.:  18cm 
 - c2012 
<br/><br/> Includes references, glossary and appendices 
<br/><br/>Contents 1. Introduction  --3.Constitutional background  --7. Brief history of congress  --11. The legislature and The Senate  --12. The house  of representatives  --16. The legislative process and the beginning  --17.Elements of a bill  --19. Copy of the house bill  --23. Filling and the first reading  --24. Committee deliberation  --25. The second reading  --27.The third reading  --28. Transmittal  of approved bill and bicameral conference  --30. The president's approval / veto power  --33. The drafting of bill  --35. What happens within the committee  --36. When the bills has complex has complex impact  --38. The "Mona Lisa" fate and substitute bill and consolidated bill  --40. No- author-no-deliberation-rule  --43. Ideas and issues from citizens, Subject of the bill, Drafting and testing  --44. Choose and support the author  --47. Follow through  --49. Effective citizens' participation and effective advocacy  --50. No to rallies  --51. Another case in point  --53. Citizens' role.                          
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-971-27-2683-5 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law and legislation -- Philippines
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>BFil.328.599077  / V659h