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OUTSTANDING CONGRESSMAN AWARD 2021

PROmOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE
To Rep Garcia, improved governance requires an integrated
cooperation between the government and the citizens. As a
lawmaker, he sees it as his duty to ensure that the government
continues to embody and uphold its duties and values enshrined
in the constitution. He has crafted several measures that call
for a government that is more responsive to the needs of its
constituents, accountable to the public, transparent in all its
actions, effective in its service delivery, and open to participation
of different sectors.

Rep Garcia is cited for his innovative legislative proposals.
Just this February, before any quarantine restrictions,
Rep Garcia foresaw the need for a Transcendent Unified
Government Mobile Application (TUGMA), which people can He has also filed HB 7703 which seeks to establish a
use to apply and pay for the renewal of licenses, issuance of national monitoring system for inmates or persons deprived of
permits and certificates, and access information for research liberty and aims to decongest jails and improve inmate’s living
under one online application. Embodied in HB 6303, this conditions. He believes that our criminal justice system must be
bill is the first of its kind in the Philippine legislature and has compassionate and should ensure the proper reintegration of
recently been approved by the Committee on Information and rehabilitated persons into society.
Communications Technology.
Rep. Garcia also authored HB 7929. Another first, this
bill aims to authorize the Commission on Elections to use a
smartphone application voting system for elections, plebiscites,
referenda, initiatives, and recall. The system will be on an opt-
in basis for voters and will complement voting processes and
arrangements currently available.

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