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 The bi-cameral committee report is
reconciliation version of the Senate Bill 1304 and
House Bill 5633 providing for free college
education in SUCs, LPUs, and government-run
vocational schools.
 Manila, Philippines – the bicameral conference
comittee yesterday approved the law granting
free college education in state universities
(SUCs) and legitimate universities and colleges
(LUCs) in the philippines, which senators
guessed as a major reform in the country’s
education system.
 Both chambers of the government are expected to
ratify the measure before they go on a break this
week.
 The country has some one hundred fourteen people about the different diseases brought by
SUCs and many more LUCs. Senator Francis migratory animals.
Escudero, chairman of the Senate Committee on  Last Aug. 11, the province of Pampanga has
the
Health, and senators Sonny Angara, Sherwin declared a state of calamity following an outbreak
Gatchalian, Ralph Recto, Joseph Victor Ejercito, of birdflu in the towm of San Luis,
Loren Legarda, Juan Miguel Zubiri, Cynthia  Meanwhile, the Department of Social Welfare
Villar, Lailani de Lima, Richard Gordon, Joel and Development (DSWD) said around two
Villanueva and Paolo Benigno Aquino IV revised hundred thousand chicken, ducks and qualls, will
the bill. be killed within the 1-km radius of the affected
farms to prevent the spread of the avianinfluenza
– which can cause illness and death to animals
 Governor Lilia Pineda said although the avian flu
and humans.
virus only affected 1 town, there were 7 towns
covered by the 7-kilometer radius of the
quarantine area; apalit, candaba, minalin, santa
ana, santo tomas, mexico, san simon. Also
covered was the city of San Fernandez
 a calamity of state decla rations means funds to
help out the affected farmers would be realeased.
 It was therefore an initiative taken by the
Department of Education to inform the Filipino