Twenty legislative measures are expected to be passed by December this year, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) announced on Wednesday, July 5.

In a press release, PCO said the 20 legislative measures have been approved by President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and government officials during the second Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) meeting held at the Malacañang Palace.

The 20 measures that are targeted to be passed by year-end are as follows:

1. Amendments of the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) law / public-private partnership (PPP) bill
2. National Disease Prevention Management Authority
3. Internet Transactions Act / E-Commerce Law
4. Health Emergency Auxillary Reinforcement Team (Heart) Act
5. Formerly Medical Reserve Corps.
6. Virology Institute of the Philippines
7. Mandatory ROTC and NSTP
8. Revitalizing the Salt Industry
9. Valuation Reform, E-Government/E-Governance
10. Ease of Paying Taxes
11. National Government Rightsizing Program
12. A unified system of separation/retirement and pension of military and uniformed personnel (MUP)
13. LGU Income Classification
14. Waste-to-Energy bill
15. New Philippine Passport Act
16. Magna Carta of Filipino Seafarers
17. National Employment Action Plan
18. Amendments to the Anti-Agricultural Smuggling Act
19. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas-endorsed Bank Deposit Secrecy
20. Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act (AFASA) bills

According to PCO, 18 of the aforementioned bills were included in the 42 priority bills discussed during the first LEDAC meeting in October last year.

Five bills, meanwhile, are in various stages of the legislative process.

"Speaker Ferdinand Romualdez said of the remaining 36 priority measures from the first LEDAC, they have passed 32 measures on third and final reading in the House of Representatives," the communications office said.

PCO also said that several bills are being proposed for the common legislative agenda (CLA), on top of the 42 bills listed.