Entitled:
AN ACT TO PROMOTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP BY STRENGTHENING DEVELOPMENT AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO MICRO, SMALL AND MEDIUM SCALE ENTERPRISES, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 6977, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "MAGNA CARTA FOR SMALL ENTERPRISES" AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
[ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 14TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2007 ]
9/26/2007	Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on ECONOMIC AFFAIRS; BANKS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND CURRENCIES; and FINANCE with Senator(s) MAR ROXAS, RAMON A. REVILLA JR., JINGGOY P. EJERCITO-ESTRADA, LOREN B. LEGARDA and MANNY VILLAR as author(s) per Committee Report No. 3, Recommending its approval in substitution of SBNos. 108, 169, 703, 1380 and 1577;
9/26/2007	Sponsor: Senator LOREN B. LEGARDA;
9/26/2007	Committee Report calendared for Ordinary Business;
10/1/2007	Transferred from Ordinary Business to Special Order;
10/1/2007	Sponsorship speech of Senator LOREN B. LEGARDA;
10/1/2007	Manifestation of Senator(s) Mar Roxas and Richard Dick Gordon;
10/2/2007	Interpellation of Senator M. A. MADRIGAL;
10/2/2007	Remarks of Senator Roxas;
10/3/2007	Interpellation of Senator M. A. MADRIGAL;
10/3/2007	Period of interpellation closed;
10/3/2007	Period of committee amendments;
10/3/2007	Period of committee amendments closed;
10/3/2007	Period of individual amendments closed;
10/3/2007	Approved on Second Reading with amendments;
10/4/2007	Printed copies were distributed to the Senators;
11/5/2007	Senator Companera Pia S. Cayetano was made coauthor;
11/5/2007	Approved on Third Reading;
11/5/2007	In favor: (18) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, JOKER P. ARROYO, RODOLFO G. BIAZON, "COMPANERA" PIA S. CAYETANO, ALAN PETER "COMPANERO" S. CAYETANO, JINGGOY P. EJERCITO-ESTRADA, FRANCIS "CHIZ" G. ESCUDERO, RICHARD "DICK" J. GORDON, GREGORIO B. HONASAN II, PANFILO M. LACSON, MANUEL "LITO" M. LAPID, LOREN B. LEGARDA, M. A. MADRIGAL, FRANCIS N. PANGILINAN, RAMON A. REVILLA JR., MAR ROXAS, MANNY VILLAR and JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI;
11/5/2007	Against: N o n e;
11/5/2007	Abstention: N o n e;
11/6/2007	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
11/6/2007	Senators MANUEL "LITO" M. LAPID and JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI, were made coauthors;
12/18/2007	House of Representatives requested the Senate for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1646 and HBN-1754, designating Representatives Lagbas, Alvarez, Lagman, Sy-Alvarado, Cua, Emano, Olaño, Salimbangon, Cari, Rodriguez and Casiño as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee;
12/19/2007	Senate agreed to the request of the House of Representatives for a conference on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1646 and HBN-1754, designating Senators Zubiri, Gordon, Angara, Legarda and Roxas as its conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee;
[ 2008 ]
3/3/2008	Conference Committee Report submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-1646 in consolidation with HBN-1754, be approved as reconciled;
3/3/2008	Sponsorship speech of Senator LOREN B. LEGARDA on the Conference Committee Report;
3/3/2008	Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate;
3/10/2008	Conference Committee Report approved by the House of Representatives on February 27, 2008;
4/22/2008	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1646 and HBN-1754, sent to the House of Representatives for the signature of the Speaker and the Secretary General;
4/28/2008	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1646 and HBN-1754, received by the Senate, which were already signed by the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives;
4/29/2008	Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1646 and HBN-1754, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines, for the signature and approval of Her Excellency, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo;
5/23/2008	Approved and signed into law, in consolidation with HBN-1754, by the President of the Philippines, Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, and became; (See: O.B. dated June 2, 2008);
5/23/2008	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9501.