MP Rep Dalog files House bills

By Erlindo Agwilang

QUEZON CITY – Mountain Province Rep. Maximo B. Dalog has filed on June 30 at least 10 house bills of provincial, regional and national significance.

Most of these were refiled since these didn’t reach approval in the 16th Congress due to the 2016 national and local elections.

Dalog is serving his third and final term as representative of the lone legislative district of Mountain Province.

In house bill no. 282, the lawmaker wants to increase the bed capacity of the Luis Hora Memorial Regional Hospital (LHMRH) from 100 beds to 200. “Due to its strategic location and the expanding need for more effective medical services, LHMRH caters to patients not only from the different provinces of the Cordillera but also from some neighboring municipalities of Region 1,” Dalog said.

Also among the house bills the congressman refiled are: HB 283, declaring the municipality of Barlig as a tourism development area, HB 284, seeking to create Barangay Pudo in Natonin as a regular barangay, HB 286, creating an additional regional trial court branch in the municipality of Paracelis, HB 721, establishing the Mabalite National High School in the municipality of Tadian, HB 722, converting the Mountain Province-Aguinaldo Ifugao Road into a national road, HB 723, converting the Maba-ay-Abatan Road into a national road, and HB 285 converting the Sagada-Besao-Quirino Ilocos Sur Road into a national road.

Of national interest, Dalog also re-filed HB 725 seeking to prohibit the collection of fees from passengers for the use of comfort rooms and service facilities in bus terminals.

In his first term as congressman, Dalog authored various bills that were approved into law like the naming of the Mountain Province Provincial Police Headquarters to Camp Lt. Geronimo F. Montes otherwise known as RA 10534.