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First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. Bie

INTRODUCED BY REP. JOHN REYNALD M. TIANGCO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Navotas City is home to the premier fish center of the Philippines and the
largest fish port complex in Southeast Asia where the largest commercial
fishing vessels call port and unload a total volume of least 300 tons. Overland
vehicles from different provinces in Luzon also bring in additional volume of
about 50 tons.

The fish port complex supplies fish and other aquatic products to a
major of markets in Metro Manila. It is also an actual business center with
markets, ice plants and cold storage, fish processing facilities, canneries,
shipbuilding and ship repair facilities, restaurants, fuel depot, gasoline stations
and other facilities necessary for the fishery sector.

Several thousands of buyers visit the port on a daily basis. Several
thousands more come and go for work at the port and its surrounding
establishments and facilities, or for other business activities.

Since Navotas City is one of the most densely populated in Metro
Manila, the fact that there continues to be no mass transport system
traversing the City grossly exacerbates the vehicular traffic problem in
Navotas City and its neighboring jurisdictions

This measure provides a solution by mandating the extension of the
Manila Light Railway Transit System Line 1 from Monumento, Caloocan to
Navotas City. Moreover, the measure improves the employment opportunities
in other parts of Metro Manila for the residents of Navotas City, and in
Navotas City for the residents of the other cities.

In view of the foregoing, the passage of this measure is earnestly
sought.

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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House BiLLNo.__ 876

INTRODUCED BY REP. JOHN REYNALD M. TIANGCO

AN ACT MANDATING EXTENSION OF THE MANILA LIGHT RAILWAY
TRANSIT SYSTEM LINE 1 TO NAVOTAS CITY, AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section 1. Declaration of Policy — It is hereby declared the policy to attain
inclusive growth, promote employment, and reduce poverty through
infrastructure development. Towards this end, the State shall providing a
sustainable transport system that is safe, efficient, and competitive, and
continue to improve and expand the same to achieve complete integration of
all its communities.

Section 2. Extension of Railway. — There shall be established an extension
of the Manila Light Railway Transit (LRT) System Line 1 from Monumento,
Caloocan to Navotas City in accordance with Executive Order No. 603.

Section 3. Appropriations. - The Department of Budget and Management
shall include in the National Government annual budget of expenditures the
necessary funds to increase the capital of the Light Railway Transit Authority
(LRTA), to be determined by a feasibility study for the purpose, and the same
amount be made available for use by the LRTA to establish and construct the
extension of the LRT System Line 1 mandated in the preceding section.

Section 4. Period of Implementation. - The extension of the LRT System
Line 1 mandated in Section 2 hereof shall constructed, established, and made
fully operational within three (3) years from the effectivity of this Act

Section 5. Repealing Clause. — All other laws, decrees, orders, circulars,
issuances, rules and regulations and parts thereof which are inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

Section 6. Separability Clause. — If any provision of this Act is subsequently
declared unconstitutional, the validity of the remaining provisions hereof shall
remain in full force and effect.


Section 7. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen days (15) after its
complete publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation in
the Philippines.

Approved,