The Senate and the House of Representatives separately ratified the bicameral conference committee report on House Bill No. 8179.The proposed law, which gives SPSB franchise to “construct, install, establish, operate, and maintain distributable power technologies and mini-grid systems throughout the Philippines to improve access to sustainable energy,” only needs President Rodrigo Duterte’s signature before becoming a law.
While the bill was eventually ratified in the upper chamber, senators Sherwin Gatchalian and Risa Hontiveros voted negative on the ratification of the bill.
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