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Inihain sa Kamara ang panukalang pagkakaloob ng pautang na P10 bilyon sa mga maliliit na negosyante sa buong bansa na naapektuhan ng coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic upang makabangon mula sa pagkakalugmok.
Sa House Bill no. 1 na inihain nina Leyte 1st district Rep. Martin G. Romualdez, Tingog party list Reps. Yedda Marie K. Romualdez at Jude Acidre, at presidential son at Ilocos Norte Rep. Ferdinand Alexander Marcos, inatasan nito ang dalawang government financial institutions na palawigin ang mga programa sa pagpapautang sa mga maliliit na negosyante.
Idinagdag pa na ang House Bill No. 1 o “An Act providing for government financial institutions unified initiatives to distressed enterprises for economic recovery (GUIDE),” na maglaan ng P7.5 bilyon sa Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) at P2.5 bilyon sa Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) o sa kabuuang P10 bilyon para maisagawa ang kanilang mandato.
“The proposed legislative measure seeks to strengthen the capacity of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) to provide the needed assistance to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and other strategically important companies,” nakasaad pa sa nasabing panukala.
“To this end, the government financial institutions are mandated to expand their credit programs in order to assist MSMEs to meet their liquidity needs. In particular, the LBP and DBP are mandated to expand their credit and rediscounting facilities to affected MSMEs in the agriculture, infrastructure, manufacturing, and service industries,” dagdag nito.
Sa ilalim din ng panukala, ang terminong MSME ay “any business activity or enterprise engaged in industry, agribusiness and/or services, whether single proprietorship, cooperative, partnership or corporation whose total assets, inclusive of those arising from loans but exclusive of the land on which the particular business entity’s office, plant and equipment are situated, must have value falling under the following categories: micro, not more than P3 million; small, P3 million to P15 million; and medium, P15 million to P100 million.”
Dadagdagan din ang DBP’s capital stock mula P35 bilyon ay gagawing P100 bilyon na hahatiin sa isang bilyong shares na P100 na manggagaling sa national government.
Maaaring dagdagan ng pangulo ang bank’s capitalization sa rekomendasyon ng lupon at ng kalihim ng Department of Finance (DoF) habang ang LBP ay may mandato na idiskuwento ang pautang sa mga karapat-dapat na MSMEs.
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