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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
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BACOLOD City – Mayor Evelio “Bing” Leonardia is looking forward to Senate’s approval of a bill seeking to change the date of the city’s Charter Day.
The House of Representatives has approved House Bill (HB) No. 5875 on Feb. 14 during its third and final reading.
HB No. 5875 aims to declare June 18 of every year as the Bacolod City Charter Day, making it a special nonworking holiday in Negros Occidental’s capital city.
After it was approved in the lower house, Rep. Greg Gasataya said the bill was referred to a committee that will rename it as a Senate bill.
The bill’s new name has yet to be known, Gasataya told Panay News.
If passed, the bill will amend Republic Act 7724, which declares Oct. 19 of every year as the city’s Charter Day.
The bill has received various comments – negative and positive – as the debate on Bacolod’s cityhood rose.
The most recent was that of Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. and former mayor Monico Puentevella.
Gamboa and Puentevella said Bacolod came into “corporate existence” when then president Manuel Quezon inaugurated the city on Oct. 19, 1938 during a “foundational rites” that was joined by Bacolodnons.
Gamboa and Puentevella said this citing the National Historical Commission of the Philippines.
Puentevella earlier said he will ask help from a senator, who he did not name, to lobby against the bill’s passage.
“We have to wait and see how they (senators) will treat that. But I am hopeful this will be done because there is still time,” said Leonardia./PN
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