Things to remember

I.ATTENDANCE

For turno 1:

1. Find out which senators have sent official mission/sick notices beforehand.

2. List the names of senators who arrived after the roll call in alphabetical order.

3. Do verify, using the per-turno attendance checklist or from other JOs, the status of other senators that have not been accounted for during your turno. Be sure to indicate the whereabouts/status of all 23 senators.

4. Attendance should be listed in the following order:

Those who...
>responded to the roll call;
>arrived after the roll call;
>were on official mission abroad/local;
>were sick; and
>were absent (without notice)


5. Take note of the Secretariat official who is making the roll call or reading the Reference of Business and indicate his/her proper title.

e.g., Secretary of the Senate, Atty. Emma Lirio-Reyes
Deputy Secretary for Legislation, Atty. Edwin B. Bellen

Note: The full names of the Secretary/Dep. Sec need not be stated the second time either one is called upon to read the Additional Reference of Business.



II.WHEN THERE IS A CHANGE IN THE PRESIDING OFFICER...

At this juncture, Senate President Enrile relinquished the Chair to Senate President Pro Tempore Ejercito Estrada/Senator Honasan.

III.ON SPEECHES/ REMARKS /MANIFESTATIONS /INQUIRIES/INTERPELLATIONS/POINT OF ORDER

> Privilege speech - concerns any subject matter and is often introduced by the Majority Leader as such.

Note: Prepared speeches should be written verbatim while short speeches or those delivered impromptu should be journalized. Impromptu speeches delivered in Tagalog are also journalized. When in doubt, consult with the editor/s.

> Question of Privilege - a senator delivers this speech when he is personally affected or involved in the subject matter.

> Sponsorship/Cosponsorship speech - is delivered to present an overview of and rationale behind the bill/resolution.

>Remarks - are made in reaction to a motion/information/speech. (Although sometimes this can be interchanged with "Manifestation")

>Manifestation - is made to state an observation/opinion or present information. Oftentimes, the senator will expressly state that he/she is making a manifestation.

>Inquiry/ies - are queries made outside of the period of interpellations.

>Point of Order - a senator will state that he is making a point of order to clarify an action/motion.

IV.PERIOD OF...

>Interpellations - This is the formal period of debates and is introduced by the Majority Leader as such.

Note: When another senator (not the sponsor or interpellator) interjects queries or comments during the period of interpellations, his questions/comments need not be introduced by a separate heading. Include his participation in the discussion by starting another paragraph :

e.g. At this juncture, Senator Honasan pointed out...
At this point, Senator Marcos noted that...

>Amendments - the period when proposals for modifications to the bill/resolution are made. Committee Amendments are changes made by the committee handling the bill while Individual Amendments are proposals made by other senators.

Note 1: Remember to secure a copy of the original bill as well as a hard/soft copy of the proposed committee or individual amendments or the amended version of the bill from either the ComSec or the senator's staff.

Note 2: When there are no committee nor individual amendments, the heading used is : TERMINATION OF THE PERIOD OF AMENDMENTS


V. SUSPENSION OF CONSIDERATION OF (BILL/RESOLUTION) - This should be indicated regardless of the whether the Majority Leader remembers to make a formal motion to suspend the Senate's deliberation of a measure at any stage of the plenary deliberations: 2nd reading, interpellations, amendments etc.

VI. COAUTHOR/COSPONSORS

Note: Unless the Majority leader states that all senators are coauthors/cosponsors of a measure, the names of the senators who were present in the session hall and who agreed to be coauthors at the time the motion was made are to be included.