Republic Acts1 min read
Section 21October 23, 1989, Sec./Art. 21
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(A) Every bill shall embrace only one (1) subject which shall be expressed in the title thereof.
(B) No bill shall become a law unless it has passed three (3) readings on separate days, and printed copies thereof in its final form have been distributed to the Members three (3) days before its passage, except when the Cordillera Governor certifies to the necessity of its immediate enactment to meet a public calamity or emergency affecting the region or any of its component provinces, cities, municipalities or barangay or ili. Upon the last reading of a bill, no amendment thereto shall be allowed and the vote thereon shall be taken immediately thereafter, and the yeas and nays entered in the Journal.
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