{"id":18870,"date":"2026-02-25T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=18870"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:22:01","slug":"house-bill-seeks-to-make-feb-25-a-regular-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/house-bill-seeks-to-make-feb-25-a-regular-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"HOUSE BILL SEEKS TO MAKE FEB. 25 A REGULAR HOLIDAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAWMAKERS on Tuesday filed a proposed measure seeking to declare February 25, which marks the anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, a regular holiday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Akbayan Reps <\/strong><strong>Chel Diokno, Perci Cenda\u00f1a, and Dadah Kiram Ismula with Dinagat Islands Rep. Kaka Bag-ao filed House Bill (HB) 7911 declaring EDSA People Power Day a holiday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The proponents of HB 7911 said the State &#8220;has the duty to preserve historical truth and honor the collective courage of the Filipino people.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The bill provides for the necessary appropriations to support commemorative and educational activities, particularly through the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>At present, February 25 is only a special working holiday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> ML Party List Rep. Leila de Lima, accompanied by Kiko Aquino Dee, the grandson of democracy icons Ninoy and Cory Aquino, \u00a0filed House Bill 8028, which is also co-authored by Liberal Party congressmen, Rep. Adrian Michael Amatong, Edgar Erice, Jaime Fresnedi and Alfonso Umali Jr..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>De Lima said the measure seeks to memorialize the heroism, the sacrifices, and the suffering of the victims and the survivors of the martial law era.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. will study proposals to declare Feb. 25 a non-working holiday in observance of the EDSA People Power Revolution anniversary, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Palace Press Officer Claire Castro said Marcos would review the recommendations and consider their implications before making any decision.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAWMAKERS on Tuesday filed a proposed measure seeking to declare February 25, which marks the anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, a regular holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18873,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18870\/revisions\/18873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}