A bill eliminating “unnecessary” preventive suspension has been approved at the House of Representatives on its second reading.

Davao del Norte Rep. and House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez, the principal author of House Bill 6590, said public officers who are no longer connected with the office wherein the offense charged was committed will be exempted from preventive suspension.

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