Entitled:
AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8762, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE RETAIL TRADE LIBERALIZATION ACT OF 2000, BY LOWERING THE REQUIRED PAID-UP CAPITAL FOR FOREIGN RETAIL ENTERPRISES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
[ SECOND REGULAR SESSION, 18TH CONGRESS ]
[ 2020 ]
9/22/2020	Prepared and submitted by the Committee on TRADE, COMMERCE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP with Senators FRANKLIN M. DRILON, WIN GATCHALIAN, IMEE R. MARCOS, JUAN MIGUEL "MIGZ" F. ZUBIRI and AQUILINO "KOKO" III PIMENTEL as authors per Committee Report No. 115, recommending its approval in substitution of SBNos. 14, 921, 1113 and 1349, taking into consideration HBN-59;
9/22/2020	Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business;
9/22/2020	Sponsor: Senator AQUILINO "KOKO" III PIMENTEL;
12/16/2020	Transferred from the Calendar for Ordinary Business to the Calendar for Special Order;
12/16/2020	Sponsorship speech delivered by Senator AQUILINO "KOKO" III PIMENTEL;
[ 2021 ]
2/15/2021	Co-sponsorship speech of Senator WIN GATCHALIAN;
3/2/2021	Interpellation of Senator FRANKLIN M. DRILON;
3/10/2021	Interpellation of Senator RISA HONTIVEROS;
5/17/2021	Certified by the President of the Philippines for its IMMEDIATE enactment on 04/12/2021;
5/18/2021	Interpellation of Senators CYNTHIA A. VILLAR and RALPH G. RECTO;
5/18/2021	Manifestation of Senators JUAN MIGUEL "MIGZ" F. ZUBIRI;
5/18/2021	Remarks of Senators FRANKLIN M. DRILON, JOEL VILLANUEVA, RISA HONTIVEROS and PIA S. CAYETANO;
5/18/2021	Inquiry of Senator FRANCIS "TOL" N. TOLENTINO;
5/18/2021	Period of interpellation closed;
5/19/2021	Period of committee amendments closed;
5/19/2021	Period of individual amendments;
5/19/2021	Period of individual amendments closed;
9/20/2021	Conference Committee Report on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1840 and HBN-59, submitted to the Senate, recommending that HBN-59, in consolidation with SBN-1840, be approved in accordance with the attached copy of the bill as reconciled and approved by the conferees;
5/19/2021	Approved on Second Reading with Amendments;
5/19/2021	Approved on Third Reading;
5/19/2021	In favor: (20) Senators SONNY ANGARA, MARIA LOURDES NANCY S. BINAY, PIA S. CAYETANO, RONALD "BATO" DELA ROSA, FRANKLIN M. DRILON, WIN GATCHALIAN, RICHARD J. GORDON, RISA HONTIVEROS, PANFILO "PING" M. LACSON, IMEE R. MARCOS, EMMANUEL "MANNY" D. PACQUIAO, FRANCIS "KIKO" N. PANGILINAN, AQUILINO "KOKO" III PIMENTEL, GRACE POE, RALPH G. RECTO, RAMON BONG REVILLA JR., VICENTE C. SOTTO III, FRANCIS "TOL" N. TOLENTINO, JOEL VILLANUEVA and JUAN MIGUEL "MIGZ" F. ZUBIRI;
5/19/2021	Against: (None) ;
5/19/2021	Abstention: (None) ;
5/19/2021	Senators RALPH G. RECTO, RICHARD J. GORDON, PIA S. CAYETANO, JOEL VILLANUEVA and EMMANUEL "MANNY" D. PACQUIAO requested that they be made co-authors;
5/24/2021	Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence;
5/24/2021	Senate designated Senators AQUILINO "KOKO" III PIMENTEL, MARIA LOURDES NANCY S. BINAY, EMMANUEL "MANNY" D. PACQUIAO and FRANKLIN M. DRILON as conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1840 and HBN-59;
5/25/2021	Senate designated Senator JUAN MIGUEL "MIGZ" F. ZUBIRI as additional conferee to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1840 and HBN-59;
5/26/2021	House of Representatives designated Representatives Tiangco, Gatchalian, Yap, Garin, Romualdo, Vergara and Quimbo as conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1840 and HBN-59 on May 25, 2021;
9/20/2021	Sponsorship speech on the conference committee report of Senator AQUILINO "KOKO" III PIMENTEL;
9/20/2021	Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate;
9/27/2021	Conference Committee Report Approved by the House of Representatives on September 21, 2021;
10/26/2021	Letter from Secretary General Mark Llandro L. Mendoza, transmitting nine (9) enrolled copies of the consolidated version of HBN-59 and SBN-1840, for the signature of Senate Secretary Myra Marie D. Villarica and Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III;
11/9/2021	Letter for Speaker Lord Allan Jay Q. Velasco, returning eight (8) enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1840 and HBN-59, which were signed by Senate Secretary Myra Marie D. Villarica and Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III;
[ 2022 ]
1/17/2022	Consolidated with HBN-59, which was Approved and Signed into Law by the President of the Philippines, His Excellency, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on December 10, 2021 and became
1/17/2022	REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11595.