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BACKGROUND
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) is a duly constituted
local legislative and legally empowered quasi-judicial body, which
operates under the joint functional system of the Office of the
Vice-Governor and the office of the Provincial Secretary. It is
composed of ten (10) regular members and three (3) ex-officio members
coming from the Association of Barangay Captains, Provincial Councilors'
League and the Sangguniang Kabataan Provincial Federation. With
the untimely demise of Hon. Isidoro Rey Real III, however, the number
of regular members was reduced to nine (9), there being no official
succession yet taking place as of the making of this report.
 The
Vice-Governor presides over sessions of the SP, while the Secretary
is the workhorse who produces its legislative output and reduces
its actions into formal documents that have official and binding
effects such as resolutions and ordinances. With the passage of
amendments to the House Rule, new innovations were introduced in
the legislative set-up, thus, a Speaker Pro Tempore in the Provincial
Board now exists
who automatically assumes the responsibilities
of the Presiding Officer every time he is not available to discharge
his mandated duties. Also along this context, enacted were Provincial
Ordinance No. 007-2002 amending Provincial Ordinance No. 001-2001
and a resolution which the august body unanimously decided to adopt
in order to instill discipline and compel attendance for all members
of the provincial board in every session, including the chairman,
pro tempore. In here, every infraction shall have its corresponding
penalty and the schedule of fines is as follows:
P 100.00 - any member coming in the session
hall late
P 100.00 - for every hour any member of the
board is found escaping and/or
cutting sessions
P 100.00 - for every unauthorized absence
Since January 2001, the resolutions adopted by
the Board have been numbered consecutively regardless of the years
of their adoption and are classified into a) Provincial; b) Regulatory;
c) Tax; and d) Revenue. The numbering of the ordinances for General
Appropriation and Annual Investment Plan, on the other hand, always
starts from number 1 for each year.
Various committees, which attend to specific matters brought before
the Sangguniang Panlalawigan for legislative action, were formed
on which the bulk of work in the Sannguniang Panlalawigan rested.
The SP holds sessions every Thursday at 9:00 o'clock in the morning
unless special sessions are called to treat very important legislative
agenda, along with other matters considered of utmost urgency.
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