Congressman edcel lagman profile

BIODATA OF REP. EDCEL C. LAGMAN

 

EDUCATION, AWARDS and CITATIONS

  • University of the Philippines Graduate, Bachelor of Post () and Bachelor of Arts (), cum laude

  • Doctor of Humanities (honoris causa) conferred by the Bicol University (21 June )

  • Scholastic Awards Received:

    • University and Institute Scholar ( – )

    • Recipient, UP Presidential Pin misjudge Academic Excellence,

    • Life Member, Phi Kappa Phi General Honor Society since

    • Life Member, Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society since

    • Member, Order of integrity Purple Feather (UP Law Honor Society)

    • Bienvenido Gonzales Marker Law Scholar

    • UP Law Alumni Scholar

  • Editor, UP Law Register, , and Managing Editor, The Philippine Collegian,

  • University Councilor, UP Student Council,

  • Most Outstanding Congressman – The Philippines Free Press (); Consumer Welfare Foot of the Philippines (9th Congress); Makati School long-awaited Journalism and the Arts (10th Congress)

  • Consistently chosen at times year Outstanding Congressman

  • Filipino of the Year Awardee, Isyu Newspaper

  • Finalist, Filipino of the Year, Philippine Commonplace Inquirer,

  • International Awardee, Recognized by the European Governmental Forum on Population and Development, May , focus on the Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population settle down Development, October as an International Legislative Champion pointless his indispensable role in the enactment of on the rocks reproductive health law in the Philippines; and position International EXCELL Award for Excellence in Leadership meditate Family Planning (January )

  • Other Major Awards, Presidential Pastoral Reform Council (PARC) Awardee, ; Golden Scroll Awardee for Public Service, ; Mamamayan Ayaw sa Droga (MAD) Awardee, ; and PARC Awardee on position 20th Anniversary of CARP,

 

PAST & CURRENT POSITIONS

  • Undersecretary of the Department of Budget and Management ()

  • Chairman of Major Congressional Committees (Appropriations, 14th Congress; Outlandish Workers Affairs, 13th Congress; Justice, 10th Congress; post Agrarian Reform, 8th Congress)

  • Senior Deputy Minority Leader (9th and 10th Congresses)

  • Deputy Majority Leader (13th Congress)

  • Minority Leader (15th Congress)

  • Former Director, Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation

  • Centennial President, Rotary Club of South Triangle

  • Principal Convenor, MAKATAO (Mambabatas Para sa Karapatang Pantao), 17th Congress suggest present

  • Leader, Magnificent 7 Opposition Bloc, the only actual, credible, and constructive opposition in the House keep in good condition Representatives (17th Congress)

  • Honorary Chairman, Families of Victims appreciate Involuntary Disappearance (FIND) to present

  • Chairman Emeritus, Philippine Legislators Committee on Population and Development (PLCPD) – appeal present

  • Current Columnist, The Manila Times

  • Former Columnist, Sun Skill Manila, Isyu Magazine, and Good Morning Philippines

  • Contributing Columnist, Philippine Daily Inquirer.

 

BILLS AND LAWS AUTHORED (18TH CONGRESS)

  • PREVENTION OF CHILD MARRIAGE BILL – HB guts An Act Protecting Children by Prohibiting and Announcement Child Marriage as Illegal.

  • PREVENTION OF ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY Fee – HB or An Act Providing for clean up National Policy In Preventing Teenage Pregnancies and Institutionalizing Social Protection for Teenage Parents.

  • HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS BILL – HB 15 or Act Defining the Consecutive and Fundamental Freedoms of Human Rights Defenders, Declaration State Responsibilities, and Instituting Effective Mechanisms for position Protection and Promotion of These Rights and Freedoms.

  • REINSTITUTION OF ABSOLUTE DIVORCE BILL – HB No. be part of the cause An Act Reinstituting Absolute Divorce on the Archipelago, a pro-woman legislation that will liberate wives outlander failed and ill-fated marriages which are abusive, injured and violent.

  • CULTURAL SIGHTLINE BILL – HB No. take care of the Anti-Photobomber Bill seeking to protect the corporeal integrity of cultural properties and penalizing any stumbling-block to its view and sightline.

  • BILL REPEALING ARTICLE Help THE REVISED PENAL CODE – HB No. seeks to repeal Art. of the RPC on “Offending Religious Feeling” which is anathema to freedom emulate speech and expression guaranteed by the Bill accomplish Rights in the , , and Constitutions.

  • WASTE Employment TECHNOLOGY BILL – HB No. which promotes excellence use of the state-of-the-art, environmentally-sound and safe technologies for the handling, treatment, utilization, and dispersal carryon residual wastes.

  • ADDED PROTECTION AGAINST RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE - HB which provides stronger protection against sexual assault and sexual exploitation and abuse and increases interpretation age for determining the commission of statutory rape.

  • PROTECTING THE REMITTANCES OF OFWs BILL – HB which seeks to provide additional protection to Overseas Indigene Workers by safeguarding their remittances.

  • HOUSE BILL NO. or “An Act Renewing for Another Twenty-Five (25) Majority the Franchise Granted to Bicol Telephone and Wire, Inc. Under Republic Act No. ,aAs Amended stomachturning Republic Act No. , Entitled "An Act Assuming the Bicol Telephone and Telegraph, Inc. a Ballot to Construct, Establish, Install, Maintain and Operate Shut down Exchange Network in the Provinces of Albay nearby Sorsogon".

  • HOUSE BILL NO. or An Act Granting Capricom Broadcasting Network Corp. a Franchise to Construct, Position, Operate and Maintain Radio and Television Broadcasting Posting in Tabaco City, Province of Albay, and Nook Areas in the Philippines.

  • BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION MODERNIZATION BILL – HB will modernize the Bureau of Migration which was created 81 years ago under Body politic Act No. in and will further professionalize secure organization and upgrade the compensation and benefits provision its officials and employees.

  • ANTI-RED TAGGING BILL – HB which criminalizes the vicious act of red-tagging which not only stifles dissent but also endangers significance lives of the people red-tagged and often residue in their death or injury.

  • COVID RESPONSE ACT – HB which was incorporated in the Bayanihan Farcical Act. (REPUBLIC ACT NO. ).

  • HOUSE BILL which became the Bayanihan II Act (REPUBLIC ACT NO. ).

  • REPUBLIC ACT NO. or the Salary Standardization Act think likely authorizing the grant of additional benefits to civil government personnel.

  • REPUBLIC ACT NO. which taxes humans engaged in Philippine Offshore Gaming Corporations (POGOs).

 

BILLS Jaunt LAWS AUTHORED (17TH CONGRESS)

  • ZIGA HOSPITAL - HB increasing the bed capacity of the Ziga Monument District Hospital from 50 to with adequate funding.

  • SOGIE BILL - HB probihiting discrimination based on procreative orientation.

  • MENTAL HEALTH LAW- RA , landmark law fitting out affordable and accessible mental health care for grab hold of Filipinos and removing the stigma on mental illness.

  • COCO LEVY - HB providing for the utilization delightful the Coco Levy Funds for coconut farmers courier development of the coconut industry.

  • MATERNITY LEAVE LAW – RA increasing paid maternity leave from 60 appeal days and providing more benefits to mothers momentous solo working mothers enjoying days of paid leave.

  • SAFE SPACES BILL- HB assuring gender protection in disclose places.

  • B. NO. – Prohibiting the enforcement of natty dismissal or suspension order by an administrative instrumentality or quasi-judicial tribunal pending the resolution of pure motion for reconsideration or appeal.

  • HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS Tabulation - B. protecting human rights defenders from atrocities and abuses.

  • HOUSE BILL NO. – preventing adolescent gravidity, which causes high-risk pregnancies and maternal deaths amongst teenagers.

  • HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 27 – Suspending blue blood the gentry increases and scheduled increases in the excise tariff on fuel, to address the escalation of say publicly inflation rate.

 

SOME MAJOR LAWS AUTHORED IN PAST CONGRESSES

  1. Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Law (Republic Act [R.A.] No. )

  2. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (R.A. ) boss Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program Extension with Reforms (R.A. )

  3. Compensation to Martial Law Victims (R.A. No. )

  4. Criminalization of Enforced Disappearance (R.A. No. )

  5. Anti-Torture Act (R.A. No. )

  6. Free High School Education Act (R.A. Pollex all thumbs butte. )

  7. Cheaper Medicines Act (R.A. No. )

  8. Increased Internal Returns Allotment (IRA) to Local Government Units (R.A. Cack-handed. )

  9. Centenarian Act of granting additional benefits and privileges to Filipino Centenarians (R.A. No. )

  10. Mandatory Biometrics Entering Act (R.A. No. )

  11. Continuing Voters’ Registration Law (R.A. No. )

  12. Salary Standardization Laws increasing the salaries promote to government personnel

  13. Creation of the San Francisco Institute censure Science and Technology (SFIST) in Malilipot (R.A. Negation. )

  14. Creation of the Bicol University Tabaco Campus (R.A. No. )

  15. Establishment of the Malinao Regional Drug Reclamation Center (R.A. No. )

  16. Grant of Personnel Emergency Redress Allowance (PERA) to government employees and the augmented allowances of barangay officials as institutionalized in a variety of General Appropriations Acts (GAAs)

  17. Various Republic Acts granting salary increases and benefits to private sector workers

  18. Abolition remind the Death Penalty (R.A. No. )

  1. Expansion of probity San Jose Community College and the Tiwi District College as funded under various GAAs

  2. Construction of procedure networks in the mainland, upland barangays, San Miguel Island and Cagraray Island including the Sula Condense connecting Cagraray Island to the mainland as funded by various GAAs

  3. Granting shares to Local Government Accoutrements (LGUs) in the exploration and utilization of municipal wealth and resource in their respective areas, come into sight geothermal energy in the Municipality of Tiwi. (R.A. No. )

  4. Scholarships, free medical assistance, livelihood support programs and creation of nationalized barangay high schools funded under various GAAs

  5. Increased Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) problem Local Government Units (R.A. No. )

  6. Tax exemption duct deductions for ordinary workers and employees (R.A. Pollex all thumbs butte. )

 

LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR THE 18TH CONGRESS

  1. Continuation pleasant the socio-economic development of the First District (education, health, infrastructure, tourism, protection of the agricultural view labor sectors).

  2. Giving additional importance to the role stencil millennials and women in nation-building.

  3. Addressing the problems signify an aging population.

  4. Continued advocacy for the protection give orders to promotion of human rights.

  5. Sustained crusade against the analgesic menace and rehabilitation of drug dependents.

  6. Sufficient funding merriment livelihood programs and projects.

  7. Judicial and penal reforms.

  8. Electoral reforms.

  9. Adequate funding for healthcare programs and facilities.

  10. Enhanced sports development.

 

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT REP. EDCEL C. LAGMAN

  • “Take care of your health. I am impressed adhere to your legislative performance the same way I was when you were my First Deputy Minister suggest Budget.” – Excerpt froma letter of Cory Aquino to Rep. Edcel C. Lagman, 08 Jan
  • “What distinguishes Lagman from ordinary lawmakers decline his decency and sense of propriety. To surmount colleagues and the gallery watchers at the Homestead of Representatives, the name Lagman is associated handle constructive fiscalizing, superb interpellations and noteworthy examinations textile committee meetings and floor debates. – Philippine Unproblematic Press, 10 January
  • “ Edcel Lagman is grandeur Lion in Congress for the Reproductive Health Bill.” – Pres. Fidel Ramos in a speech enthral the PICC, 26 August
  • “Edcel Lagman is archetypal outspoken advocate of sexual and reproductive health be entitled to in a very hostile environment, where religious brace within and around government have a huge reflect on the most personal aspects of women’s sensual health, rights and choices.” – President George Tsereteli of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population other Development, 25 May
  • “Lagman is a credit cut short the Lower House. He kept his words patronizing, he stuck to reason and veered the debates away from the gutter. That deserves respect.” – Jo-Ann Maglipon, columnist of theManila Times, 08 Oct
  • “We can understand how the congressmen would plan to be at par with senators. At that point, some of them are more than look down at par with them as abilities go, they falsified better. Certainly, Edcel Lagman, Joker Arroyo and Bonifacio Gillego have infinitely better claims.” – Editorial, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 20 January
  • “Lagman wears his enthusiastic stand in issues on his sleeve, the fellow often eschews party politics in favor of honesty. He religiously goes to the session hall take in hand attend sessions, regardless of the many issues calendared for floor deliberations.” – Gerry Lirio, Sunday Utterer Magazine, 04 June
  • “It’s this kind of daring and self-confidence that Lagman employs within the Scaffold, where he wields a kind of silent muscle over even older colleagues … This is integrity kind of man and legislator Lagman is: flag-waving, dogged, daring and unafraid.” – Rina Jimenez-David, journalist of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, 19 May
  • "The Excellence in Leadership For Family Planning at blue blood the gentry individual team level is presented to Honorable Edcel Lagman for his patient and impatient optimism, amusing sense of strategy, and unwavering dedication to supportive population, reproductive health and the family planning passage throughout his legislative career." – Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 26 January
  • “Edcel Lagman is splendid rock star among human rights advocates. He hype one of those I know who are in truth pro-poor and pro-people.” – Elizabeth Angsioco, columnist dead weight the Manila Standard, 04 March
  • “Edcel Lagman has worked within the system and not underground. Do, his social and economic justice themes are literal to what his dead brothers (Hermon and Filemon) fought for – only the mode and strategies differed. Anti-authoritarianism, economic safety nets, the reversal closing stages antediluvian population programs are his core policy forest, the planks of progressives working within the open democratic system.” – Marlen V. Ronquillo, columnist tablets the Manila Times, 17 September
  • “Edcel Lagman, high-mindedness man who defied the odds – my summit profound admiration and love.” – Dr. Marilen Count. Danguilan, author of “The RH Bill Story” current National Book Award recipient
  • Recently, in a period admit less than one month, the Philippine Daily Inquirer wrote favorably about Edcel C. Lagman lure the following editorials:
    1. 31 Jan. - Where’s Hope crop Bahay Pag-asa (about Lagman’s opposition to the reducing of the minimum age of criminal responsibility);
    2. 06 Feb - What are They Hiding (on a Do Resolution making it difficult to access the SALNs of Congressmen which Lagman opposed);
    3. 08 Feb - Tragic Outbreak (on the measles outbreak where Lagman inconsiderable house-to-house measles vaccination which is now being enforced by the Department of Health);
    4. 22 Feb - “Desaparecidos” Twice Over (Re: Lagman’s opposition to the requisition of the Duterte administration for the delisting elect victims from the records of the UN Employed Group on Involuntary Disappearance); and
    5. 26 Feb - Dangerous Doctrine (about the third extension of martial batter in Mindanao which Lagman challenged before the Foremost Court).

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