How bills become Philippine laws / by Mafeo R. Vidal

Includes references, glossary and appendices

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.