This document outlines the structure and powers of the Philippine Congress based on the following key points:
1) Congress consists of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate has 24 Senators elected nationwide. The House has between 250-300 Representatives elected from legislative districts.
2) The terms of Senators is 6 years and Representatives is 3 years. No one can serve more than 2 consecutive terms as Senator or 3 as Representative.
3) Congress meets annually from July to December and the President can call special sessions. Each house chooses its leaders and officers.
4) The document establishes qualifications for Senators and Representatives and restricts them from holding other government jobs or having financial conflicts of interest during their terms.
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This document outlines the structure and powers of the Philippine Congress based on the following key points:
1) Congress consists of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate has 24 Senators elected nationwide. The House has between 250-300 Representatives elected from legislative districts.
2) The terms of Senators is 6 years and Representatives is 3 years. No one can serve more than 2 consecutive terms as Senator or 3 as Representative.
3) Congress meets annually from July to December and the President can call special sessions. Each house chooses its leaders and officers.
4) The document establishes qualifications for Senators and Representatives and restricts them from holding other government jobs or having financial conflicts of interest during their terms.
This document outlines the structure and powers of the Philippine Congress based on the following key points:
1) Congress consists of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate has 24 Senators elected nationwide. The House has between 250-300 Representatives elected from legislative districts.
2) The terms of Senators is 6 years and Representatives is 3 years. No one can serve more than 2 consecutive terms as Senator or 3 as Representative.
3) Congress meets annually from July to December and the President can call special sessions. Each house chooses its leaders and officers.
4) The document establishes qualifications for Senators and Representatives and restricts them from holding other government jobs or having financial conflicts of interest during their terms.
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This document outlines the structure and powers of the Philippine Congress based on the following key points:
1) Congress consists of a Senate and House of Representatives. The Senate has 24 Senators elected nationwide. The House has between 250-300 Representatives elected from legislative districts.
2) The terms of Senators is 6 years and Representatives is 3 years. No one can serve more than 2 consecutive terms as Senator or 3 as Representative.
3) Congress meets annually from July to December and the President can call special sessions. Each house chooses its leaders and officers.
4) The document establishes qualifications for Senators and Representatives and restricts them from holding other government jobs or having financial conflicts of interest during their terms.
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ARTICLE VI THE E DEPARTME
LEGISLATIV NT
Section 1. The legislative renunciation of the filled, as provided by
power shall be vested in office for any length of law, by selection or the Congress of the time shall not be election from the labor, Philippines which shall considered as an peasant, urban poor, consist of a Senate and a interruption in the indigenous cultural House of continuity of his service communities, women, Representatives, except for the full term of youth, and such other to the extent reserved to which he was elected. sectors as may be the people by the provided by law, except provision on initiative Section 5. (1) The House the religious sector. and referendum. of Representatives shall be composed of not (3) Each legislative Section 2. The Senate more than two hundred district shall comprise, shall be composed of and fifty members, as far as practicable, twenty-four Senators unless otherwise fixed contiguous, compact, who shall be elected at by law, who shall be and adjacent territory. large by the qualified elected from legislative Each city with a voters of the districts apportioned population of at least Philippines, as may be among the provinces, two hundred fifty provided by law. cities, and the thousand, or each Metropolitan Manila province, shall have at Section 3. No person area in accordance with least one representative. shall be a Senator unless the number of their he is a natural-born respective inhabitants, (4) Within three years citizen of the Philippines and on the basis of a following the return of and, on the day of the uniform and progressive every census, the election, is at least ratio, and those who, as Congress shall make a thirty-five years of age, provided by law, shall be reapportionment of able to read and write, a elected through a party- legislative districts registered voter, and a list system of registered based on the standards resident of the national, regional, and provided in this section. Philippines for not less sectoral parties or than two years organizations. Section 6. No person immediately preceding shall be a Member of the the day of the election. (2) The party-list House of representatives shall Representatives unless Section 4. The term of constitute twenty per he is a natural-born office of the Senators centum of the total citizen of the Philippines shall be six years and number of and, on the day of the shall commence, unless representatives election, is at least otherwise provided by including those under twenty-five years of age, law, at noon on the the party list. For three able to read and write, thirtieth day of June consecutive terms after and, except the party- next following their the ratification of this list representatives, a election. No Senator Constitution, one-half of registered voter in the shall serve for more the seats allocated to district in which he shall than two consecutive party-list be elected, and a terms. Voluntary representatives shall be resident thereof for a period of not less than Section 10. The salaries of Representatives may one year immediately of Senators and hold any other office or preceding the day of the Members of the House employment in the election. of Representatives shall Government, or any be determined by law. subdivision, agency, or Section 7. The Members No increase in said instrumentality thereof, of the House of compensation shall take including government- Representatives shall be effect until after the owned or controlled elected for a term of expiration of the full corporations or their three years which shall term of all the Members subsidiaries, during his begin, unless otherwise of the Senate and the term without forfeiting provided by law, at noon House of his seat. Neither shall he on the thirtieth day of Representatives be appointed to any June next following approving such office which may have their election. No increase. been created or the Member of the House of emoluments thereof Representatives shall Section 11. A Senator or increased during the serve for more than Member of the House of term for which he was three consecutive terms. Representatives shall, in elected. Voluntary renunciation all offenses punishable of the office for any by not more than six Section 14. No Senator length of time shall not years imprisonment, be or Member of the House be considered as an privileged from arrest of Representatives may interruption in the while the Congress is in personally appear as continuity of his service session. No Member counsel before any court for the full term for shall be questioned nor of justice or before the which he was elected. be held liable in any Electoral Tribunals, or other place for any quasi-judicial and other Section 8. Unless speech or debate in the administrative bodies. otherwise provided by Congress or in any Neither shall he, directly law, the regular election committee thereof. or indirectly, be of the Senators and the interested financially in Members of the House Section 12. All Members any contract with, or in of Representatives shall of the Senate and the any franchise or special be held on the second House of privilege granted by the Monday of May. Representatives shall, Government, or any upon assumption of subdivision, agency, or Section 9. In case of office, make a full instrumentality thereof, vacancy in the Senate or disclosure of their including any in the House of financial and business government-owned or Representatives, a interests. They shall controlled corporation, special election may be notify the House or its subsidiary, during called to fill such concerned of a potential his term of office. He vacancy in the manner conflict of interest that shall not intervene in prescribed by law, but may arise from the filing any matter before any the Senator or Member of a proposed legislation office of the of the House of of which they are Government for his Representatives thus authors. pecuniary benefit or elected shall serve only where he may be called for the unexpired term. Section 13. No Senator upon to act on account or Member of the House of his office. Section 15. The expel a Member. A Members of the Senate Congress shall convene penalty of suspension, or the House of once every year on the when imposed, shall not Representatives, as the fourth Monday of July exceed sixty days. case may be, who shall for its regular session, be chosen on the basis unless a different date is (4) Each House shall of proportional fixed by law, and shall keep a Journal of its representation from the continue to be in session proceedings, and from political parties and the for such number of days time to time publish the parties or organizations as it may determine same, excepting such registered under the until thirty days before parts as may, in its party-list system the opening of its next judgment, affect represented therein. The regular session, national security; and senior Justice in the exclusive of Saturdays, the yeas and nays on Electoral Tribunal shall Sundays, and legal any question shall, at be its Chairman. holidays. The President the request of one-fifth may call a special of the Members present, Section 18. There shall session at any time. be entered in the be a Commission on Journal. Each House Appointments Section 16. (1). The shall also keep a Record consisting of the Senate shall elect its of its proceedings. President of the Senate, President and the House as ex officio Chairman, of Representatives, its (5) Neither House twelve Senators, and Speaker, by a majority during the sessions of twelve Members of the vote of all its respective the Congress shall, House of Members. Each House without the consent of Representatives, elected shall choose such other the other, adjourn for by each House on the officers as it may deem more than three days, basis of proportional necessary. nor to any other place representation from the than that in which the political parties and (2) A majority of each two Houses shall be parties or organizations House shall constitute a sitting. registered under the quorum to do business, party-list system but a smaller number Section 17. The Senate represented therein. The may adjourn from day and the House of chairman of the to day and may compel Representatives shall Commission shall not the attendance of absent each have an Electoral vote, except in case of a Members in such Tribunal which shall be tie. The Commission manner, and under such the sole judge of all shall act on all penalties, as such House contests relating to the appointments submitted may provide. election, returns, and to it within thirty qualifications of their session days of the (3) Each House may respective Members. Congress from their determine the rules of Each Electoral Tribunal submission. The its proceedings, punish shall be composed of Commission shall rule its Members for nine Members, three of by a majority vote of all disorderly behavior, whom shall be Justices the Members. and, with the of the Supreme Court to concurrence of two- be designated by the Section 19. The Electoral thirds of all its Chief Justice, and the Tribunals and the Members, suspend or remaining six shall be Commission on Appointments shall be Section 22. The heads of prescribe, to exercise constituted within thirty departments may, upon powers necessary and days after the Senate their own initiative, with proper to carry out a and the House of the consent of the declared national policy. Representatives shall President, or upon the Unless sooner have been organized request of either House, withdrawn by resolution with the election of the as the rules of each of the Congress, such President and the House shall provide, powers shall cease upon Speaker. The appear before and be the next adjournment Commission on heard by such House on thereof. Appointments shall any matter pertaining to meet only while the their departments. Section 24. All Congress is in session, Written questions shall appropriation, revenue at the call of its be submitted to the or tariff bills, bills Chairman or a majority President of the Senate authorizing increase of of all its Members, to or the Speaker of the the public debt, bills of discharge such powers House of local application, and and functions as are Representatives at least private bills, shall herein conferred upon three days before their originate exclusively in it. scheduled appearance. the House of Interpellations shall not Representatives, but the Section 20. The records be limited to written Senate may propose or and books of accounts of questions, but may concur with the Congress shall be cover matters related amendments. preserved and be open thereto. When the to the public in security of the State or Section 25. (1) The accordance with law, the public interest so Congress may not and such books shall be requires and the increase the audited by the President so states in appropriations Commission on Audit writing, the appearance recommended by the which shall publish shall be conducted in President for the annually an itemized list executive session. operation of the of amounts paid to and Government as specified expenses incurred for Section 23. (1) The in the budget. The form, each Member. Congress, by a vote of content, and manner of two-thirds of both preparation of the Section 21. The Senate Houses in joint session budget shall be or the House of assembled, voting prescribed by law. Representatives or any separately, shall have of its respective the sole power to (2) No provision or committees may declare the existence of enactment shall be conduct inquiries in aid a state of war. embraced in the general of legislation in appropriations bill accordance with its duly (2) In times of war or unless it relates published rules of other national specifically to some procedure. The rights of emergency, the particular appropriation persons appearing in, or Congress may, by law, therein. Any such affected by, such authorize the President, provision or enactment inquiries shall be for a limited period and shall be limited in its respected. subject to such operation to the restrictions as it may appropriation to which public purposes to be thereafter, and the yeas it relates. supported by and nays entered in the appropriate vouchers Journal. (3) The procedure in and subject to such approving guidelines as may be Section 27. (1) Every bill appropriations for the prescribed by law. passed by the Congress Congress shall strictly shall, before it becomes follow the procedure for (7) If, by the end of any a law, be presented to approving fiscal year, the Congress the President. If he appropriations for other shall have failed to pass approves the same he departments and the general shall sign it; otherwise, agencies. appropriations bill for he shall veto it and the ensuing fiscal year, return the same with his (4) A special the general objections to the House appropriations bill shall appropriations law for where it originated, specify the purpose for the preceding fiscal year which shall enter the which it is intended, and shall be deemed re- objections at large in its shall be supported by enacted and shall Journal and proceed to funds actually available remain in force and reconsider it. If, after as certified by the effect until the general such reconsideration, National Treasurer, or appropriations bill is two-thirds of all the to be raised by a passed by the Congress. Members of such House corresponding revenue shall agree to pass the proposal therein. Section 26. (1) Every bill bill, it shall be sent, passed by the Congress together with the (5) No law shall be shall embrace only one objections, to the other passed authorizing any subject which shall be House by which it shall transfer of expressed in the title likewise be appropriations; thereof. reconsidered, and if however, the President, approved by two-thirds the President of the (2) No bill passed by of all the Members of Senate, the Speaker of either House shall that House, it shall the House of become a law unless it become a law. In all Representatives, the has passed three such cases, the votes of Chief Justice of the readings on separate each House shall be Supreme Court, and the days, and printed copies determined by yeas or heads of Constitutional thereof in its final form nays, and the names of Commissions may, by have been distributed to the Members voting for law, be authorized to its Members three days or against shall be augment any item in the before its passage, entered in its Journal. general appropriations except when the The President shall law for their respective President certifies to the communicate his veto of offices from savings in necessity of its any bill to the House other items of their immediate enactment to where it originated respective meet a public calamity within thirty days after appropriations. or emergency. Upon the the date of receipt last reading of a bill, no thereof, otherwise, it (6) Discretionary funds amendment thereto shall become a law as if appropriated for shall be allowed, and the he had signed it. particular officials shall vote thereon shall be be disbursed only for taken immediately (2) The President shall passed without the Section 30. No law shall have the power to veto concurrence of a be passed increasing the any particular item or majority of all the appellate jurisdiction of items in an Members of the the Supreme Court as appropriation, revenue, Congress. provided in this or tariff bill, but the veto Constitution without its shall not affect the item Section 29. (1) No advice and concurrence. or items to which he money shall be paid out does not object. of the Treasury except in Section 31. No law pursuance of an granting a title of royalty Section 28. (1) The rule appropriation made by or nobility shall be of taxation shall be law. enacted. uniform and equitable. The Congress shall (2) No public money or Section 32. The evolve a progressive property shall be Congress shall, as early system of taxation. appropriated, applied, as possible, provide for paid, or employed, a system of initiative (2) The Congress may, directly or indirectly, for and referendum, and by law, authorize the the use, benefit, or the exceptions President to fix within support of any sect, therefrom, whereby the specified limits, and church, denomination, people can directly subject to such sectarian institution, or propose and enact laws limitations and system of religion, or of or approve or reject any restrictions as it may any priest, preacher, act or law or part impose, tariff rates, minister, other religious thereof passed by the import and export teacher, or dignitary as Congress or local quotas, tonnage and such, except when such legislative body after the wharfage dues, and priest, preacher, registration of a petition other duties or imposts minister, or dignitary is therefor signed by at within the framework of assigned to the armed least ten per centum of the national forces, or to any penal the total number of development program of institution, or registered voters, of the Government. government orphanage which every legislative or leprosarium. district must be (3) Charitable represented by at least institutions, churches (3) All money collected three per centum of the and personages or on any tax levied for a registered voters convents appurtenant special purpose shall be thereof. thereto, mosques, non- treated as a special fund profit cemeteries, and and paid out for such all lands, buildings, and purpose only. If the improvements, actually, purpose for which a directly, and exclusively special fund was created used for religious, has been fulfilled or charitable, or abandoned, the balance, educational purposes if any, shall be shall be exempt from transferred to the taxation. general funds of the Government. (4) No law granting any tax exemption shall be