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 SECTION
SECTION 26.
26. (1)
(1) Every
Every bill
bill passed
passed by by the
the
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Congress shall
shall embrace
embrace only
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subject
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TATAD V. SEC. OF DOE
281 SCRA 330

A law having a single, general subject indicated in its title may contain
any number of provisions, no matter how adverse they may be, so long
as they are not inconsistent with or foreign to the general subject.
TOBIAS V. ABALOS
239 SCRA 106

The title “An Act Converting the Municipality of Mandaluyong Into a

Highly urbanized City of Mandaluyong” was deemed to include the
resulting conversion of such city into a congressional district in
compliance with Article VI, Section 5(3) of the Constitution.
 SECTION 26. (2) No bill passed by either
House shall become a law unless it has
passed three readings on separate days xxx

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TOLENTINO V. SECRETARY OF FINANCE
235 SCRA 630

The presidential certification dispensed with the requirement not only

of printing but also that of reading the bill on separate days.
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SECOND READING READING SECTION 26. (2) No bill passed by either House shall become
a law unless it has passed three readings on separate days,
and printed copies thereof in its final form have been
distributed to its Members three days before its passage,
except when the President certifies to the necessity of its
immediate enactment to meet a public calamity or
emergency. Upon the last reading of a bill, no amendment
thereto shall be allowed, and the vote thereon shall be taken
immediately thereafter, and the yeas and nays entered in the
Journal.
DATU MICHAEL ABAS KIDA V. SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES
G.R. No. 196271

The supermajority (2/3) voting requirement required under Section 1,

Article XVII of RA No. 9054 has to be struck down for giving RA No.
9054 the character of an irrepealable law by requiring more than what
the Constitution demands.
ABAS KIDA V. SENATE OF THE PHILIPPINES
G.R. No. 196271

Under our Constitution, each House of Congress has the power to

approve bills by a mere majority vote, provided there is quorum.
ARROYO V. DE VENECIA
277 SCRA 268

The votes of the members of the Congress may be obtained viva voce.
However, there are instances when a roll call vote is required (1) upon
the last and third readings of a bill [Art VI, Sec. 26(2)]; (2) at the request
of one-fifth of the Members present [Art VI, Sec. 16(4)]; and (3) in re-
passing a bill over the veto of the President [Art VI, Sec. 27(1)].
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 SECTION 27. (1) Every bill passed by the Congress
shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the
President. xxx

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 SECTION
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CIR VS. CTA
185 SCRA 329

Where the President vetoed portion of Section 42 of RA 6110 referring

to 20% caterers tax on restaurants operated by hotels, motels and rest
houses but leaving the rest intact, the court upheld the veto saying that
an item in a revenue bill does not refer to an entire section imposing a
particular kind of tax, but rather to the subject of the tax and the tax
rate. To construe the word “item” as referring to the whole section at
the expense of also approving a provision therein which he deems
unacceptable or veto the entire section at the expense of foregoing the
collection of the kind of tax altogether. The evil which was sought to be
prevented in giving the president the power to disapprove items in a
revenue bill would be perpetrated rendering that power inutile
GONZALES V. MACARAIG
191 SCRA 452

The Doctrine of Inappropriate Provisions means a provision that is

constitutionally inappropriate for an appropriation bill may be singled
out for veto even if it is not an appropriation or revenue “item.”
BENGZON V. DRILON
208 SCRA 133

The case involved the GAA of 1992. The law appropriated 500M pesos “For
general fund adjustment for operational and special requirements as
indicated hereunder.” Among the several authorized uses of the fund was the
adjustment of pension of justices as authorized by an earlier law. The
President vetoed the use of the fund for the adjustment of the pension of
justices. In declaring the veto invalid, the Court said that it was not the veto
of an item. The item was the entire 500M peso allocation out of which
unavoidable obligations not adequately funded in separate items could be
met. What the President had vetoed, according to the Court, was the
method of meeting unavoidable obligations of the manner of using the
500M pesos. The veto was declared invalid.
PHILCONSA V. ENRIQUEZ
235 SCRA 506

The Court invalidated the veto of a restriction on the use of funds for
road maintenance and a restriction on the use of funds for the
purchase of medicines since the veto did not include a veto of the
appropriated fund themselves.
BOLINAO ELECTRONICS V. VALENCIA
11 SCRA 486

A veto of a condition in an appropriation bill which did not include a

veto of the items to which the condition related deemed invalid and
without effect whatsoever.
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TANADA V. TUVERA
146 SCRA 446

The final approval of the bill, however, does not make it immediately
effective.
 SECTION 27. (1) xxx If, after such
reconsideration, two-thirds of all the
Members of such House shall agree
to pass the bill, it shall be sent,
together with the objections, to the
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names of the Members voting for or
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