Senator Lapid has proposed amendments known as the "Batas Kasambahay" to establish greater responsibility and accountability from private employment agencies in the employment of domestic helpers.
A new government center of the Antique provincial government will be temporarily shelved due to the failure to reclassify the land from agricultural to an institutional area.
The Bicol University Convention and Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Facility is expected to become a safe shelter for around 7,000 evacuees in times of calamity.
Financial assistance was handed to over 1,000 rice farmers in Ilocos Norte as part of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund of the Department of Agriculture.