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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ Proclamation No. 1162, February 9, 1998 ]

CALLING THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES TO A SPECIAL SESSION

Pursuant to the powers vested in me by the Constitution, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby call the Congress of the Philippines to a Special Session on February 11 to 13, 1998 to consider and act upon the following vital legislative measures:

For House ratification of Bicameral Report or adoption of Senate amendments:

a. Amendments to Official Development Assistance (ODA) Law

b. Ban on Smoking in Public Places

For Senate ratification of Bicameral Report or adoption of House amendments:

c. Amendments to Merchant Marines Officers Law

For consideration at the Bicameral Conference Committee:

d. PNP Reform Act

e. Financing Company Act

f. Establishment and Maintenance of a Veterans Rehabilitation, Medicare and Training Center (Amendment to BCDA Law)

g. Regulating the Practice of Agricultural Engineering

For plenary consideration in the Senate:

h. Anti-Racketeering Act (RICO)

For action by both Chambers:

i. Concurrence to Amnesty Proclamation No. 1160

j. Amendment to the Organic Act for ARMM

k. Water Resources Development Act

For plenary consideration in the House:

l. Increased Agrarian Reform Fund

m. Fisheries Code

Other Bills:

n. Those pending in bicameral conference committee level and those with bicameral conference committee reports awaiting ratification by either or both chambers, and

o. Those measures already certified for immediate enactment

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.1aшphi1

Done in the City of Manila, this 9th day of February in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety-eight.

(Sgd.) FIDEL V. RAMOS

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEXANDER P. AGUIRRE
Acting Executive Secretary

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