"Working with you towards a kinder society and a better world".
Senator Serge Osmeña, of Cebuano-Negrense-lllongo descent, takes pride that his family has had the honor to have contributed three generations of direct descendants to serve in the Philippine Senate. Both his grandfathers Sergio Osmeña Sr. and Esteban dela Rama, and his father, Sergio Osmeña Jr., had been elected senators.
Like his forebears, Sen. Serge Osmeña’s legislative efforts have been focused on measures that would transform Philippine society into one that will be kinder and gentler to all Filipinos, especially those who still live in want.
He has made a special effort to craft numerous reform measures dedicated to improving the socio-economic conditions of the Filipino. Sixty-five bills he authored have been passed into law, including the Absentee Voting Law, Retail Trade Liberalization Act, Government Procurement Act, Securities Regulations Code, and the Regional Headquarters for Multi-National Companies Act. He has also co-authored 55 other laws including the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act, the Clean Air Act, the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the Safeguards Measures Act.
Among the current priority bills which he is sponsoring is the "Farmland as Collateral" bill of which he is also the principal author. The passage of this bill into law would greatly improve the lives of the agrarian reform beneficiaries, as it would liberate them from the shortcomings of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law or R.A. 6657. Through this bill, the beneficiaries would be given the right to mortgage their lands for the purpose of obtaining funds at more favorable rates of interest than they currently have to pay. They would no longer have to suffer the mandatory ten-year prohibition period currently prescribed in R.A.6657.
In all past Congress, Sen. Osmeña III has always filed the most number of bills in the Senate. He has also chaired 14 out of 36 Senate committees – including Agriculture and Food, Trade and Commerce, Economic Affairs, and Agrarian Reform.
He was recently elected chairman of the Senate Committee on Banks, Financial Institutions and Currencies. He is tasked with steering the passage into law of the Securitization Bill, the Pre-Need Code, the Amendment to the PDIC Charter, the PERA Bill and the Revised Investment Company Act (Mutual Funds). All these proposed measures are critical to the development of the Country’s long-term capital market.
Sen. Osmeña III has always emphasized the urgent need for developing the countryside areas where the poorest of the poor live and work. Out of his total 3,251 infrastructure projects in all 79 provinces, 80% are situated in the rural areas.
Farmers and fisherfolk have benefited from his tireless efforts to enhance the countryside’s transportation network. Thus far, he has caused to be
constructed 674 farm-to-market roads aside from numerous mini-irrigation projects.
He has also championed the fundamental need of all Filipino children to be properly trained to meet the challenges of life. To date, he has funded a total of 935 school buildings nationwide, the most by any senator.
He has moreover directed substantial budgetary support to government-owned medical institutions to fund the medical needs of indigent patients. To date, a total of 2,888 Filipinos have been the beneficiaries of Sen. Osmeña’s medical assistance program at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH), National Kidney Institute (NKI), the Philippine Heart Center (PHC) the Lung Center, the Vicente Sotto Medical Center, the Baguio General Hospital, and the Lingad Memorial Hospital.
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Source : http://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/sen_bio/sosmena_bio.asp