ARTICLE VI Legislative Department
ARTICLE VI Legislative Department
ARTICLE VI Legislative Department
of Senate
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The Senate
1. Composition and election - It is
composed of 24 Senators. They are
elected at large (nationwide) by the
qualified voters, as may be provided by
law (Sec. 2). Unless otherwise provided
by law, the regular election of Senators
shall be held on the second Monday of
May (Sec. 8)
2. Term of office - It is six (6) years. It shall
commence, unless otherwise provided by
law, at noon on the 30th day of June next
following election (Sec. 4, par. 1). The
Constitution has a similar provision with
respect to the President and VicePresident except that the hour and date
of commencement of their term of office
cannot be changed by law.
3. Qualifications
A Senator must be:
(a) a natural-born citizen of the
Philippines;
(b) at least 35 years of age on the
day of the election (i.e., day of the
balloting);
(3)
Each legislative district shall
comprise,
as
far
as
practicable,
contiguous,
compact,
and
adjacent
territory. Each city with a population of at
least two hundred fifty thousand, or each
province,
shall
have
at
least
one
representative.
(4)Within three years following the
return of every census, the Congress shall
make a reapportionment of legislative
districts based on the standards provided
in this section.
Section 6. No person shall be a Member of
the House of Representatives unless he is
a natural-born citizen of the Philippines
and, on the day of the election, is at least
twenty-five years of age, able to read and
write, and, except the party-list
representatives, a registered voter in the
district in which he shall be elected, and a
resident thereof for a period of not less
than one year immediately preceding the
day of the election.
Section 7. The Members of the House of
Representatives shall be elected for a term
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additional,
double,
or
indirect
compensation
unless
specifically
authorized by law, nor accept without the
consent of the Congress any present
emolument, office or title of any kind from
foreign government.
Section 14. No Senator or Member of the
House of Representatives may personally
appear as counsel before any court of justice
or before the Electoral Tribunals, or quasijudicial and other administrative bodies.
Neither shall he, directly or indirectly, be
interested financially in any contract with, or
in any franchise or special privilege granted
by the Government, or any subdivision,
agency, or instrumentality thereof, including
any
government-owned
or
controlled
corporation, or its subsidiary, during his
term of office. He shall not intervene in any
matter before any office of the Government
for his pecuniary benefit or where he may be
called upon to act on account of his office.
Section 15. The Congress shall convene once
every year on the fourth Monday of July for
its regular session, unless a different date is
fixed by law, and shall continue to be in
session for such number of days as it may
determine until thirty days before the
opening of its next regular session, exclusive
of Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays.
The President may call a special session at
any time.
Session of Congress
Implied
from
their
position
as
administrative heads and presiding officers of
their respective chambers, as such, they preside
over their;
a. Sessions
b. Preserve order and decorum
c. Decide all questions of
order d. Sign acts
e. Resolutions
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f.
g.
h.
i.
j.
Meaning of Quorum
A quorum is such a number of the
membership of an assembly or collective body
as is competent to transact its business. It is the
number that makes a lawful body and gives it
power to pass a law or ordinance or do any
other valid corporate act. A quorum is at least
one-half plus one of the members of the body.
Rule of Procedure - are the rules made by any
legislative body to regulate the mode and
manner of conducting its business.
Disciplinary
Behavior
under
the
Constitution, each House of Congress may
determine acts constituting disorderly behavior,
and whether a Member should be suspended or
expelled. Each House is authorized under its
Rules to punish its member for disorderly
behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds
vote of all kits members, suspend or expel an
erring legislator. The Constitution, however,
limits the suspension to sixty days.
Legislative Journal is defined as the official
record of what is done and passed in legislative
assembly. It is called because the proceedings
are entered therein in chronological order as
they occur from day to day.
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Kinds of Resolutions
1. Simple
2. Concurrent
3. Joint
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based
on
3. The
Congress
may
authorize
the
President to fix tariff rates, import and
export quotas, tonnage and wharfage
dues, and other duties and imports,
subject to the limitation of the Congress;
and
4. Charitable institutions, churches and
parsonages or convents appurtenant
thereto, mosques, non-profit cemeteries
and
all
lands,
buildings,
and
improvements actually, directly, and
exclusively used for religious, charitable,
or educational purposes shall be exempt
from taxation.
Section 29. (1) No money shall be paid out
of the Treasury except in pursuance of an
appropriation made by law.
(2) No public money or property shall
be
appropriated,
applied,
paid,
or
employed, directly or indirectly, for the
use, benefit, or support of any sect,
church,
denomination,
sectarian
institution, or system of religion, or of any
priest, preacher, minister, other religious
teacher, or dignitary as such, except when
such priest, preacher, minister, or dignitary
is assigned to the armed forces, or to any
penal
institution,
or
government
orphanage or leprosarium.
(3)All money collected on any tax
levied for a special purpose shall be treated
as a special fund and paid out for such
purpose only. If the purpose
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