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What is LEDAC?The Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) was created under Republic Act 7640 as an advisory and consultative body to the President and the Legislature on various socioeconomic issues and concerns to ensure consistency in coordinating executive and legislative development planning and budgeting. The Council is composed of 20 members with the President as Chairman and the following members:
For better collaboration, the Council expanded its membership by inviting all cabinet members and selected senators and congressmen to attend the weekly meetings of the Council. LEDAC OrganizationThe Legislative-Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) was established by virtue of Republic Act 7640 on December 7, 1997. The Council proper is composed of twenty members from both the executive and legislative branches of government. It is chaired by the President of the Philippines. The activities of LEDAC are overseen by an executive committee whose membership also come from the various executive and legislative offices. The committee is headed by the Secretary of Economic Planning. The LEDAC Task Force to Prioritize the Common Legislative Agenda (CLA) is a committee composed of members from the executive and legislative offices. It is chaired by the Executive Secretary and includes both themajority and minority floor leaders of both houses of Congress. The committee monitors the CLA and discuss/resolve issues involving passage or prioritization of legislative measures included in the CLA. The day to day operation of the LEDAC is undertaken by the LEDAC Secretariat which is composed of career specialists from the different disciplines such as economics, business, ecology, development administration, law, and inform action technology. The LEDAC Secretariat's principal responsibility is the hosting of weekly meetings between the President and his cabinet and legislators from the two houses of Congress. It is managed by an executive director. Regular MembersHer Excellency President Gloria M. Arroyo His Excellency Vice President Teofisto T. Guingona Senate President Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. House Speaker Feliciano R. Belmonte, Jr. Sec. Dante B. Canlas (NEDA) Gov. Hilario L. De Pedro as President, League of
Governors The Common Legislative AgendaThe Common Legislative Agenda (CLA) is a listing of bills from both houses of Congress that have been certified as priority measures by the President. These bills are submitted by cabinet members for input to the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of the President on the opening of Congress each year. The bills mentioned by the President in his SONA address are then adopted by the Task Force to Prioritize the Common Legislative Agenda for inclusion in the CLA. The status of the bills included in the CLA is regularly monitored and reported on the weekly LEDAC meeting between the President and his cabinet and the LEDAC members from both houses of Congress. During the course of the weekly LEDAC meeting, some bills may be identified as urgently requiring enactment in which case, the President may instruct the Chairman of the LEDAC Executive Committee to have the bills included in the CLA. Some cabinet members or members of the Legislature may on their own initiative request the President to have any legislative measure included in the CLA. If the President approves, he may then instruct the LEDAC Task Force on the Common Legislative Agenda to include the bill in the CLA. From then on, the status of these bills will be included in the CLA report presented at the weekly LEDAC meeting. Once a bill is enacted into law by both houses of Congress, it is automatically stricken off the CLA. The Presidential Legislative Agenda The Presidential Legislative Agenda is a list of priority bills of the executive branch of government. It is a purely executive branch initiative and the two legislative houses are not involved in its preparation. The list is being pushed and monitored by the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office (PLLO). LEDAC is involved in its preparation by serving as secretariat for the yearly conduct of the cabinet clusters workshop to come up with the PLA. The result of the cabinet workshop is included as the President's Legislative Agenda in the yearly State of the Nation Address oft the President. Collaborative Activities Under the Estrada Administration, there are fewer LEDAC meetings are held since the establishment of the Economic Coordinating Council which serves as a small LEDAC group that accomplishes the same objectives. Occasional meetings among the Executive Secretary, the Senate President and the House Speaker serves to further LEDAC functions and objectives. To compensate for fewer LEDAC meetings, The LEDAC Secretariat has embarked on a series of collaborative activities with other agencies or private sector group to further its goal of closer and stronger executive-legislative cooperation. Under a Memorandum of Agreement with The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), LEDAC has committed to undertake jointly with PIDS a series of activities involving conduct of research and discussion forum and sharing of policy notes on current legislative issues as well as establishing information linkages between the two agencies. In coordination with CD Technologies Asia, Inc., LEDAC is helping the ADB-RETA Project DIAL (Developing Internet for the Asian Law) in organizing training programs for Philippine users of the legal research portal and database which is accessible through the Internet. The ANGEL ProjectANGEL stands for Advisory Network for Government Executive and Legislature. It is a LEDAC project that aims to establish electronic linkages among executive and legislative offices involved in LEDAC activities. The Project consists of the following components:
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