QuestionsQuestions (LETTER OF INSTRUCTION NO. 743)
It mandates closer and more sustained examination by the Cabinet of all proposed cabinet and parliamentary bills before they are brought to the Batasang Pambansa.
A cabinet committee is constituted to study and pass upon the merits and desirability of every cabinet and parliamentary bill submitted.
Minister Jose RoAo.
Ministers Cesar Virata, Gerardo Sicat, Jaime Co Laya, Vicente Paterno, and Estelito Mendoza.
Whenever necessary, it is automatically expanded to include the heads of such ministries as may have jurisdiction over or relevance to the subject matter of the proposed bill.
The bill must be recommended by the committee for the Cabinet.
No. It provides that henceforth, no cabinet or parliamentary bill shall be brought before the Batasang Pambansa unless recommended by the committee for the Cabinet.
He is tasked to certify and transmit cabinet bills recommended for consideration to the Speaker of the Batasang Pambansa upon prior approval of the President and Prime Minister.
Prior approval of the President and the Prime Minister.
It is signed by Ferdinand E. Marcos, President of the Philippines.
The session of the Batasang Pambansa before the recent recess showed the need for closer and more sustained examination by the Cabinet, noting that such scrutiny has not always been possible under then-current circumstances.
It shall study and pass upon the merits and desirability of every cabinet and parliamentary bill submitted.
Every cabinet bill and every parliamentary bill submitted.
To the Speaker of the Batasang Pambansa.
It imposes a procedural gatekeeping step: bills must first undergo Cabinet committee review and Cabinet recommendation, and then receive presidential and prime ministerial approval before transmission to the Batasang Pambansa.