{"id":148101,"date":"2018-01-22T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148101"},"modified":"2018-01-22T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:45:50","slug":"anti-hazing-bill-hurdles-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/22\/anti-hazing-bill-hurdles-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-hazing bill hurdles House"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122775\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122775\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122775\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: The House approved on Monday night House Bill No. 6753, or the Anti-Hazing Act, with 210 affirmative votes, zero negative, and no abstention. (Photo: House of Representatives of the Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/21271347_10154586568252271_7376679326560282394_n-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The House approved on Monday night House Bill No. 6753, or the Anti-Hazing Act, with 210 affirmative votes, zero negative, and no abstention. (Photo: House of Representatives of the Philippines\/Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong> \u2014 The House of Representatives has unanimously approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to prohibit all forms of hazing and regulate the initiation rites of fraternities, sororities and other organizations.<\/p>\n<p>The House approved on Monday night House Bill No. 6753, or the Anti-Hazing Act, with 210 affirmative votes, zero negative, and no abstention.<\/p>\n<p>Bagong Henerasyon Partylist Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy, principal author of the bill, said the bill made all forms of hazing illegal, instead of just regulating hazing, with penalties ranging from fines to life imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The bill seeks to increase the penalty from 20 years imprisonment to life if death, suicide, rape, sodomy or mutilation results from hazing.<\/p>\n<p>It also mandates a four-hour hazing education course as an additional condition for any sentence, which may also include alcohol and drug probation.<\/p>\n<p>The bill expands the definition of hazing to cover psychological injuries in addition to physical suffering, as well as beyond just incidences related to gaining membership in an organization.<\/p>\n<p>It likewise provided the definition of \u201cinitiation\u201d and \u201cinitiation rites,\u201d which were not included in the current law.<\/p>\n<p>Herrera-Dy also highlighted that community-based fraternities, sororities, and organizations be covered under the proposed law.<\/p>\n<p>School-based fraternities, sororities and organizations will be required to register with school authorities, while community-based organizations will likewise be required to register with their respective local government units.<\/p>\n<p>The solon said the initiation rites of fraternities, sororities, and organizations should be monitored to \u201csee to it that no hazing is conducted.\u201d\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 The House of Representatives has unanimously approved on third and final reading a measure seeking to prohibit all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[44339,11118],"class_list":["post-148101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-anti-hazing-bill","tag-house-of-representatives","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}