Representative Bernadette Herrera, representative of the 1st district of Quezon City, submitted House Bill 4585 on September 8, 2022. This bill sought to adopt a 30-year National Infrastructure Program that included the following provision about the Mindanao Railway:
Sec 12. Core National Infrastructure Projects
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a. Transport and Logistics Infrastructure
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2. Rail and Other Mass Transport
a) Long-haul rail systems
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4) Mindanao Rail Networks, Tagum-Davao-Digos, with extensions to Butuan, Cagayan de Oro, General Santos, Iligan, Surigao, and Zamboanga
Status and summary of the bill
Session No.: 19-1RS-020
Significance: NATIONAL
Date Filed: 2022-09-08
Principal Author/s: HERRERA, BERNADETTE "BH"
Date Read: 2022-09-13
Primary Referral: PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS
Status: Pending with the Committee on PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS since 2022-09-13
Explanatory note
Key portions of the explanatory note for this bill appears below:
A safe, strong, efficient, and accessible national infrastructure backbone is vital to foster the sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development of the present and future generations of Filipinos. This national infrastructure system should help realize the long-term vision for the Philippines under Ambisyon Natin 2040, by the middle of this centure, as a progressive, mainly middle-class society, where nobody is poor, where citizens enjoy healthy lives, are smart and innovative, and live in a high-trust community.
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In Section 12, the bill provides the initial list and brief description of core national infrastructure projects to be given priority in the 30-Year Program. The list focuses on pipeline projects identified by the concerned Agencies as high priority and conforming to the policies and strategies in Sections 5 to 11.
Text of the bill
The text of the bill is available here.