RESOLUTION URGING CONCERNED STATE AGENCIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS TO CONDUCT STRICTER CONTINGENCY MEASURES TO PROTECT LOCAL HOG FARMS FROM VIRUS-BORNE DISEASE OUTBREAKS WITH THE END IN VIEW OF ENSURING THE SAFETY OF THE PEOPLE FROM CONSUMING SUSPECTED VIRUS-BORNE HOGS RESULTING FROM UNMONITORED DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF LOCAL HOGS IN THE COUNTRY

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE SENATE COMMITTEES ON AGRICULTURE AND FOOD; AND HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHY, AND OTHER APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES IN THE SENATE TO CONDUCT AN INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE SPREAD OF HOG CHOLERA VIRUS (HCV), OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER (CSF), IN THE PROVINCES OF BULACAN AND NUEVA ECIJA, WITH THE END IN VIEW OF PROVIDING NECESSARY LEGISLATIVE MEASURES THAT WOULD ADDRESS FUTURE PROBLEMS OF HOG CHOLERA EPIDEMIC IN THE COUNTRY

RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FOOD AND COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, TOGETHER WITH THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE TO CONDUCT A JOINT INQUIRY, IN AID OF LEGISLATION, INTO THE EXTENT AND SCOPE OF THE DROUGHT CAUSED BY THE DRY SPELL AND THE PREVALENCE OF SWINE FLU AND HOG CHOLERA IN SEVERAL PARTS OF LUZON, AS WELL AS THE IMMEDIATE MEASURES THE APPROPRIATE GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE TAKEN TO REMEDY SAID CALAMITIES, WITH THE END VIEW OF RECOMMENDING AND INSTITUTIONALIZIGN PROGRAMS TO PREVENT THE RECURRENCE OF THE SAME OR SIMILAR CALAMITIES AND/OR TO PREPARE FOR AND MITIGATE THEIR EFFECTS