IN a bid to prevent rushing the filing of proposed bills of senators in the 17th Congress, the Office of the Senate Secretary has issued new guidelines effectively doing away with the old practice of the first-come, first-served basis of bill filing.

In a two-page advisory issued on Monday by lawyer Oscar Yabes, the Senate secretary, said the order of the filing of bills will have three rounds and for the first round the sequence will be in accordance with the principle of seniority or the length of service of a senator in the Senate.

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