Not an OJT anymore, Senator-elect Binay files her first Senate Bills

First-term Senator-elect Nancy Binay-Angeles personally filed her first priority bills for the 16th Congress. After being her parents’ personal assistant, Senator Binay gets her first try to file her own bills.

Binays. Vice President Binay with her daughter Nancy Binay-Angeles
as she files for her COC for May 2013 Senate elections.

The Vice President’s famous daughter who’s twentieth to file said that ‘early filing of bills is critical to advancing the priorities of the Senate and she hopes that most of the bills that she filed would find their way to passage’.

Another Binay in government. Senator-elect Nancy Binay is seen here
with her family during her Proclamation as Senator.

True to her promises during the campaign, she pursued her advocacy for health, education, employment, women and children. According to her advertisements during the campaign, she would like to provide Tulong cards for pregnant women and children, free medicines and vitamins, and education for employment.

The Nanay de Pamilya, according to her campaign ads, also included measures focusing on cyber bullying and sex offenders. The lady senator herself was also a ‘victim’ of cyber bullying during the last days of the campaign period.

Among her priority bills are:
1. The Employers Child Care Centers Act of 2013
2. Parents in Jail Act of 2013
3. Special Education Act of 2013
4. Women's and Children's Resource Development and Crisis Assistance Act of 2013
5. The Indigent Children Free Medical and Dental Service Act
6. Firecracker Safety Law
7. Women and Gender Education Act.
8. The Anti-Corporate Punishment Act of 2013
9. The E-Vaw Law of 2013
10. Rest Period for Women Employees
11. Sex Offenders School Access Prohibition Act
12. Philippine Arbitration Commission Act of 2013
13. Petroleum Exploration and Development Act
14. Sugar Cane Industry Development Act of 2013
15. Food Fortification Act.

Electronic Violence Against Women Law or E-VAW Law of 2013 seeks to prevent cyber bullying and other forms of ‘violence’ done in cyber media. Electronic violence is defined in her bill as any act involving the exploitation of data that “can cause or is likely to cause mental, emotional and psychological distress or suffering to the victim.”

According to a Press Release by the Senate,

The bill provides that any act causing electronic violence against a woman and her child is punishable by incarceration from six months to six years, while threats causing electronic violence can be punished by incarceration from a month to six months.

Offenders can be penalized up to P300,000.00 but not more than P500,000.00, depending on the gravity of distress caused to the victim. The bill also provides a protection order to prevent further harm and distress to any woman and her child.

SOURCES:
www.senate.gov.ph
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/07/03/13/nancy-binay-wants-law-vs-online-violence

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