Press Release
TRANSCRIPT OF SEN. GRACE POE s SPONSORSHIP SPEECH
I put forward the report of the committee on public services which on Feb. 09, 2021, conducted a hearing on the operation of Private Motor Vehicles Inspection Centers or PMVICs.
Back in 2018, the DOTr decreed that the physical inspection of vehicles, which was previously conducted by the Land Transportation Office, along with an additional battery of tests, 73 in total, shall now be conducted by Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers which it will accredit outside the usual modes of procurement.
As mentioned in the report, the main objective of the committee hearing was to shed light on the issues currently hounding the operation of PMVICs. Nang matapos ang hearing, naging mas malinaw na hindi lamang pala iilan ang problemang kinakaharap dito. Kaya ang naging resoluyon ng komite ang polisiya mismo ang may problema.
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Samar Rep. Edgar Mary Sarmiento, committee chairman, told ABS-CBN’s Teleradyo that their public hearing was set on Wednesday next week, February 10.
The hearing, he said, particularly aims to look into the implementation of the law, which requires the installation of appropriate child car seats in private vehicles for passengers aged 12 and below and shorter than 4′ 11″.
The Department of Transportation already decided last Tuesday, February 2, to defer the rollout of the child restraint requirement considering the COVID-19 pandemic and pending the information campaign that the government will launch about the law.
The Land Transportation Office (LTO) also assured that there will be no apprehensions yet for the violations of the RA 11229.