My friend from the Senate informed me the other day that Senator Lito Lapid, chairman of the Senate Committee on Games, Amusement and Sports, was absent since November.
“He applied for a leave of absence last November 15 until December 19 to go to the States, he asked for an extension but (Senate) President Juan Ponce Enrile did not approve it,” said my source. Senator Lapid reportedly went to the United States. He has not reported since.
Among the bills waiting for appropriate Committee action is SB 2620 filed by Senator Pia Cayetano. The Bill aims to create the Philippine High School for Sports. Another bill filed by Senator Angara calls for the creation of a Philippine Sports University. These bills could be consolidated as they are crafted for the same purpose of creating an educational institution for Filipino athletes.
Senator Pia is the vice chair of the Committee along with Senator Migs Zubiri. However, without express authority from the chair, the two lawmakers cannot also call a Committee hearing.
Senator Lapid, who is from Pampanga (I wrote Pangasinan erroneously earlier), hopefully attends the opening of the Senate’s first session of the year. Senate Committee hearings set for January 11 to 14 did not bear any schedule from the GAS Committee.
Here’s hoping Senator Lapid honors his mandate. I’ll keep tab until my source feeds me the latest on this subject.
Let me take a different walk through the local sports scene. The Davao Sportswriters Association (DSA) will soon be known as the Davao City Sportswriters Association, Inc.
The new name will take effect as soon as the incorporation papers of the oldest sports media organization in Mindanao will be approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The incorporation has been a long overdue process for the sportswriters’ group which has been existing for 16 years.
The process of reserving the name took me just a few seconds though via the new online reservation process of the SEC. Impressive. I could barely imagine that all of 16 years wait could end in just a few seconds.
Attorney Javey Paul Francisco, regional chief of SEC, introduced me to this wonderful innovation of registering via online when I paid him a visit last month. Jinggo, as we call him, is a classmate in Law School at Ateneo. His wife Kara is a classmate of mine too in elementary.
Back to Sec. I believe that registering online helped a lot in declogging the piles and piles of documents lodged at the SEC.
There are some glitches in the system though. Jinggo admits that not everything is perfect. If you register online, the name you want to be reserved may not be admitted because of its close similarity to another corporate name. In a face-to-face human transaction, an applicant can plead his case. This one, you cannot appeal your case with a machine. So if the machine does not admit your name, you have to think of another until the name you entered is available.
When this happens, however, Jinggo says you can still get the name you want by appealing your case personally now with the SEC registry desk. That means, where the machine fails, human intervention comes into play.
Now, we just need to wait a while after paying the reservation fee. The next step is to formulate your own by-laws which you can do by just ticking on the boxes where it correspond to your corporate purpose.
Brilliant.
Notes: Belated birthday greetings to colleague Joji Alcantara, my sister Leah, and batchmate Julius Espina. As I was writing this, it is 1-11-11. For whatever that means, no number combinations can ever match God’s power over us.
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