Nograles, Karlo Alexei B. DAVAO CITY, 1ST DISTRICT
Committees • • • •
Human rights Rules Dangerous drugs Good government and public accountability
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Government reorganization Health Public order and safety Revision of laws
• Suffrage and electoral reforms • Transportation
Congressman Karlo Alexei Bendigo Nograles graduated from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science, Major in Management Engineering. He earned his Juris Doctor from the same university in 2003 and in September of the same year took the Philippine Bar Examination placing high among 5,349 bar examinees. The eldest son of Former House Speaker Prospero C. Nograles of the 1st Congressional District of Davao City, he served as his father’s Chief Political Affairs Officer creating and spearheading various community projects and development programs for the 1st Congressional District of Davao City before running for Congress. As a first term congressman, Karlo has focused on five priority areas of development namely Education, Health, Livelihood, Barangay Electrification and Infrastructure. Foremost on this development agenda is education. His program Oplan Kaalam currently supports full tuition and fees of 4,538 students enrolled at the state-owned University of Southeastern Philippines and 373 students of the University of the Philippines – Mindanao. It also provides tuition fee assistance to 2,200 students enrolled in various private colleges and universities of Davao City. For health, Congressman Karlo initiated Oplan Kalusugan Health and Wellness Program, which, delivers much needed health and medical services to indigent constituents of the First Congressional District. It covers assistance for the purchase of medicines, settlement of hospital bills, referrals to medical specialists, health practitioners and institutions, and conducting free medical and dental missions in the 54 barangays of the district. These medical missions have become a much-awaited monthly event where some 12,500 patients have availed of free consultations, medicines and laboratory tests. On a daily basis, the office of Congressman Karlo assists an average of 250 constituents per day in their health care needs. Despite being a neophyte Congressman, Congressman Karlo was elected in the esteemed Committee on Rules and is Assistant House Majority Leader of the 15th Congress. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights and holds membership in the Committee on Good Government, Committee on Dangerous Drugs, Committee on Electoral Reforms & Suffrage, Committee on Transportation, Committee on Health, Committee on Public Order & Safety and Committee on Revision of Laws. As a legislator, he authored several measures approved on Third Reading, such as HB 4512, creating three (3) additional branches of the Regional Trial Court in Davao City; HB 5977, creating the Philippine Trade Representative Office; and HB 6052, Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System in the Philippines. He is also one of the co-authors of RA 10168 or the Terrorism Financing and Suppression Act of 2012 and HB 4575, encouraging corporate social responsibility. Recognizing the importance of a speedy justice system, he supported 14 other measures adding Regional Trial Courts and Metropolitan Trial Courts across the country. Congressman Karlo is happily married to the former Maria Margarita Maceda MonteMayor and is blessed with three children, Karlos Mateo, Kristian Massimo and Katarina Mikaelle.
House Measures Sponsored/Authored • HB00058 an act granting the right of reply and providing penalties in violation thereof • HB00059 an act implementing the right of the people to information on matters of public concern guaranteed under section seven, article three of the 1987 constitution and the state policy of full public disclosure of all its transactions involving public interest under section twenty-eight, article two of the 1987 constitution, and for other purposes • HB00060 an act establishing two additional branches of the regional trial court in the city of davao, amending for the purpose batas pambansa blg 129, otherwise known as "judiciary reorganization act of 1980," as amended, and appropriating funds therefor • HB01141 an act strengthening the commission on human rights and for other purposes • HB01892 an act creating the Philippine trade representative office, appropriating funds therefor and for other purposes • HB02157 an act establishing one additional branch of the regional trial court as family court in the city of davao, amending for the purpose batas pambansa blg. 129, otherwise known as the "judiciary reorganization act of 1980", as amended, and appropriating funds thereof
• HB02158 an act criminalizing the financing of terrorism and for other purposes • HB02159 an act to strengthen the fiscal autonomy of the office of the ombudsman, amending for the purpose section 38 of r.a. 6770, otherwise known as the "ombudsman act of 1989" • HB02160 an act qualifying salvaging or extrajudicial killing by any public officer, person in authority or agent of a person in authority as a heinous crime, imposing the maximum penalty therefor and for other purposes • HB02161 an act strengthening further the regulatory powers of the bangko sentral ng pilipinas, amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 7653, entitled "the new central bank act", and for other purposes • HB02704 an act providing for a national mental health care delivery system, establishing for the purpose the Philippine council for mental health and appropriating funds therefor • HB03076 an act providing for the development fund for the medium term development plan of the university of the Philippines mindanao • HB03077 an act amending the Republic Act No. 9344 otherwise known as the "juvenile justice and welfare act of 2006" • HB03078 an act establishing
a patient grievance mechanism for treatment-related grievances in all public and private health institutions with the supervision of the department of health, and for other purposes • HB03079 an act defining the crime of summary execution, prescribing stiffer penalties therefor, providing compensation and protection to the victims' families and witnesses, appropriating funds therefor and for other purposes • HB03628 an act granting the digidata inc. a franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and maintain telecommunications systems throughout the Philippines • HB03664 an act separating the don enrique bustamante high school in bago gallera, talomo, city of davao from the crossing bayabas national high school, converting it into an independent national high school to be known as don enrique bustamante national high school and appropriating funds thereof
House Measures Co-Authored • HB00013 an act providing for the safety and protection of the unborn child and for other purposes • HB00093 an act to strengthen and enhance the use of english as the medium of instruction in Philippine schools • HB00095 an act providing incentives to all barangay officials, including barangay tanods and members of the lupong tagapaMayapa, and barangay employees and for other purposes • HB00125 an act increasing the bed capacity of the davao regional hospital from two hundred (200) to four hundred (400) beds and appropriating funds therefor • HB00322 an act to strengthen and propagate foster care for abandoned and neglected children and other children with special needs, providing appropriations therefor and for other purposes • HB00385 an act reorganizing and modernizing the national bureau of investigation, providing necessary funds therfor, and for other purposes • HB00419 an act providing protection and rewards to persons who disclose conduct constituting
graft and corruption and to witnesses for the prosecution thereof, providing penalties for violation hereof, and for other purposes • HB00564 an act institutionalizing the Philippine national health research system, establishing the Philippine national health research fund providing for its administration and for other purposes • HB01224 an act institutionalizing corporate social responsibility, providing incentives therefor, and for other purposes • HB01705 an ct amending section 10 of Republic Act 9208 otherwise known as the anti-trafficking in persons act of 2003 • HB01841 an act prohibiting the imposition of any fee for the use of parking spaces and facilities located within shopping malls, hotels and similar commercial establishments, and prescribing penalties therefor • HB02042 an act defining the offense of reckless driving and providing penalties for the commission thereof and for other related purposes • HB02045 an act defining as a crime the act of driving any motor vehicle while under the influence 32
of alcoholic beverages and/or prohibited drugs and providing graduated penalties therefor • HB02142 an act upgrading the minimum salary grade of public school teachers from salary grade 11 to 15 • HB02510 an act to effectively instill health consciousness through picture-based health warnings on tobacco products • HB03112 the Philippine maritime code of 2010 • HB03292 an act promoting corporate farming and providing incentives thereof • HB03472 an act providing for a comprehensive vaccination and immunization fund for filipino infants and children, providing funds therefor and for other purposes • HB03527 an act providing for the promotion of breastfeeding practices and instituting measures therefor and for other purposes • HB03985 an act prescribing an antitrust law to strengthen the prohibition against monopolies, cartels, combinations in restraint of trade and other anticompetitive practices and conduct, and for other purposes