Quiz #1

Statutory Construction
I. Definition (2 pts each)
1. Conference Committee
2. Statute
3. Curative Statute
4. Doctrine of Enrolled Bill
5. Legislative Power

II. Enumeration (3 pts each)

1. Bills exclusively originating in the House of Representative
2. Purpose of the “three readings on separate days ….” constitutional requirement of bills
3. Action of the President after the Enrolled Bill is presented to him.

III. Essay (Answer with Legal Basis)

1. House Bill No. 1234 was approved on the third reading on September 12, 2019 and was transmitted
on September 16, 2019 to the Senate which approved it with certain amendments on third reading on
November 17, 2019.

A bicameral conference committee was formed to reconcile the disagreeing provisions of the House
and Senate version of the bill.

The bicameral conference committee submitted its report to the House at 8 a.m. on November 21,
2019. On the same day, the bill was signed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the
President of the Senate and certified by the respective secretaries of both Houses of Congress as having
been finally passed by the House of Representatives and by the Senate on November 21, 2019.

The enrolled bill was signed into law by the President on November 22, 2019.

Respondent filed for a petition for certiorari and/or prohibition challenging the validity of law alleging
among others that the report of the bicameral conference committee did not comply with the
constitutional requirement that “no bill shall become a law unless it has passed three readings on
separate days”, is the contention proper? (5 pts)

2. How does a bill become a law? (10 pts)

3. How is a bill authenticated? (3 pts).

4. House Bill 9807 was House Bill No. 1234 was approved on the third reading and was transmitted to
the Senate which approved it on third reading. When the Enrolled Bill was transmitted to the Office
of the President, the President vetoed the said Bill. How can the Bill be repassed by the Congress? (3
pts)

5. Upon the request and certification of the President the Congress held special sessions for the enactment
of House Bill No. 6616.

In the House of Representatives, the bill was read in full on March 10, 2020 and was approved
immediately.

The House Bill No. 6616 was then transmitted to the Senate on March 12, 2020 which was also
approved immediately after it was read in full for the first time. The enrolled bill was signed into law
by President on March 13, 2020.

a. Senator B questioned the constitutionality of law alleging among others that the law did not
undergo the constitutional requirement of constitutional requirement that “no bill shall become a
law unless it has passed three readings on separate days”, is the contention proper? (5 pts)

b. Congressman B, filed a Petition for Certiorari alleging that the certification issued by the President
was exercised with grave abuse of discretion. Will the action prosper? (5 pts)