Manila, Jan. 22 -- Lawmakers from the Batangas province on Wednesday filed a measure appropriating PHP30 billion as a supplemental budget to aid the victims of the Taal Volcano eruption.
Batangas Reps. Vilma-Santos Recto (6th district), Elenita Milagros Ermita-Buhain (1st district), Raneo Abu (2nd district), Theresa Collantes (3rd district), Lianda Bolilia (4th District), and Mario Marino (5th district) filed House Bill No. 5998, which seeks to appropriate PHP30 billion to augment the aid, relief, resettlement, rehabilitation, reconstruction, and livelihood programs and projects for the victims.
The proposed amount shall be sourced from the National Treasury as supplemental appropriations for the 2020 national budget. It shall be made ava...