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AN ACT SEPARATING THE CITY OF CALAMBA FROM THE SECOND LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT OF THE PROVINCE OF LAGUNA TO CONSTITUTE THE LONE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF CALAMBA

Year:

2018

Category:

Other

Date Approved:

September 24, 2018

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This Act separates the City of Calamba from the Second Legislative District of the Province of Laguna to create its own Lone Legislative District. It ensures that the incumbent representative will continue to serve until a new representative is elected.

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Seventeenth Congress
Third Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand eighteen.

REPUBLIC ACT No. 11078

AN ACT SEPARATING THE CITY OF CALAMBA FROM THE SECOND LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT OF THE PROVINCE OF LAGUNA TO CONSTITUTE THE LONE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF CALAMBA

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled:

Section 1. Lone Legislative District. - The City of Calamba is hereby separated from the Second Legislative District of the Province of Laguna to constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Calamba, which shall commence in the next national election after the effectivity of this Act.

Section 2. Holdover. - The incumbent Representative of the present Second Legislative District of the Province of Laguna shall continue to represent the said district until the new Representative shall have been duly elected and qualified.

Section 3. Rules and Regulations. - The Commission on Elections shall issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement this Act within thirty (30) days after its effectivity.

Section 4. Repealing Clause. - All laws, rules and regulations which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

Section 5. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,

VICENTE C. SOTTO III
President of the Senate

GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
Speaker of the House of Representatives

This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives on September 25, 2017, amended by the Senate on August 14, 2018, and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on September 3, 2018. 

MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA
Secretary of the Senate

DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING
Acting Secretary General
House of Representatives

Approved: September 24, 2018

(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines


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