Practice question
A duly accredited people’s organization files an indirect-initiative petition with the House containing the required summary of the bill’s chief purposes and contents. It then claims filing automatically enacts the bill and bypasses every ordinary legislative step. Which assessment follows Section 11 of RA 6735?
- Filing enacts every proposed bill immediately
- The bill follows ordinary legislative enactment procedures, with the stated committee-precedence rule, rather than automatic enactment
- Only the organization’s treasurer must sign for enactment
- The House must treat the proposal as a constitutional amendment
- The proposal becomes a treaty upon filing
Legal references
- RA 6735, Initiative and Referendum Act, August 4, 1989: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/2/2017; Section 11.
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