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Coco levy fund bill gets bicameral conference panel approval

(Eagle News) — A bicameral conference panel has reconciled the disagreeing provisions of the Senate’s and the House of Representatives’ versions of a bill creating the P100-billion coconut levy trust fund. In a statement, Senator Cynthia Villar, chair of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Food and head of the Senate panel, said the final reconciled version of Senate Bill 1233 and House Bill 5745 will now be submitted for ratification by both houses of Congress. The […]