Nov. 8 each year decla1qd. as YolandaDf in E. VisaYas principally authored bY the now ringog Sinirangan solon , House MajoritY Leader and when she yas still LeYte's fust teyte Rep. Martin Romualdet ald district rePrePentative. his wife Tingog Sinirangan patty-liSt The Rornualdezes noted that Rep. Yedda Marie Romualdez want tor ttre last thrbe Years, the citY to declare November I of every Year of Tacloban and the'Provinces of a special non-working holiday in the Leyte, Biliran, Southirn LuYt.: ' Eastern Visayas reglgn to "honor Northern Sarnar, Western and the memory of all those who died" Eastern Samar have been ob- when super-tyPhoon Yolanda made- segvingtlre annual'commemo- landfalt on that daYin 2013. ration of Yolanda devastation The Romualdezes filed Hoqse through a local executive order. Bill 3300, sedkinglhe declaration of On November B, 2013, SuPer-fY- Novembgr B, eacrt' Year, as'Sblanda phoon Yolanda heavi$ battered East- ernVisaps; killingS, and Commemoration DaY," a sPecial 982 PeoPle,
, non-working holiday, in TaclobanCity' affecting million families.
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and the provinces of LeYte, Biliran, 'lThe pain caused bY Yolanda
Southern Le.yte, Northern Samar' is somewhat negated'bY the Phe- W€stern Samar and Eastern Samar. nomenal opPortunitY'tobe able t'o "This bill is intended to be a fit- build back better, given the over- ting hibute to the memory of all who whelming supPort that comes our died inthe disaster and to salute thg r wayinmanyforms-humanitarian selflessness of all volunteers:and aid for irrmediate disaster relief' organizations who took Part and ftxdind assistance for rehabilita- conmibuted in the recovery and re[a-' tion and recovery Prnjects, and bilitation efforts the commuirities oJ even technical assistance willing affected by the tYPhoon," theY said; to be shared by e:rPefts on under- In the previous 17th Con- standing bgtter the'disastep that gress, the House of RePreSer hit us and y'reventing another one tatives approved the bill'on ftom hitting us in the futurc," the .third and final,readihg. \! *4U , Romualdezes said.