By BIN Staff | 04:06 PM June 06, 2020
All three House representatives from Bohol voted in favor of the Anti-Terror Bill which Congress passed on Wednesday, June 3.
Boholano lawmakers Edgar Chatto (first district), Erico Aristotle Aumentado (second district) and Alexie Tutor (third district) voted yes for the passage of the Anti-Terror Bill or House Bill No. 6875 all agreed that the country needed to improve its existing anti-terrorism laws, particularly the 2007 Human Security Act.
On Wednesday, voting 173, the House of Representatives approved the bill on its third and final reading. 31 lawmakers were not in favor of its passage while 29 decided to abstain.
There were no disagreements in the versions between the lower and upper chambers of the House.
Thus, the controversial bill now only awaited the signature of President Rodrigo Duterte who earlier certified the proposal as urgent.
The Anti-Terror Bill seeks to penalize those who will propose, incite, conspire, participate in the planning, training, preparation, and facilitation of a terrorist act; as well as those who will provide material support to terrorists, and recruit members in a terrorist organization.
Under the proposed law, any person, who shall threaten to commit terrorism, and those, who will propose any terroristic acts or incite others to commit terrorism, shall suffer the penalty of 12 years.
