On 7 May 2003, the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (LEDAC) convened to review the progress of 15 legislative measures in its Common Legislative Agenda.

Shortly two weeks after Congress convened for its regular session, plenary debates mainly centered on four measures: Rationalizing the Pay Scale of the Judiciary; the Anti-Terrorism Act; Rationalization of Excise Tax; and Farmland as Loan Collateral.

Deliberations on the Franchise for the National Transmission Corporation (TRANSCO franchise) are expected to resume as the bill is supposedly due for enactment by 6 June. Like the TRANSCO franchise, the Securitization Law, Department of Housing and Urban Development Act and Rationalization of Documentary Stamp Tax are all measures scheduled for deliberation, after debates were put on hold during the 13 January to 21 March session.

Five measures remain at the committee level. First of these is the Quarantine Program to Prevent SARS, which aims to prevent the introduction and/or spread of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). The Optical Media Act which aims to improve protection of intellectual property rights by reorganizing the Videogram Regulatory Board into the Optical Media Board; and the Compensation to Human Rights Victims Act, which recognizes the rightful claim for compensation of human rights victims of the Marcos regime.

Other priorities are the Indexation of Sin Taxes and the proposed National Revenue Administration Act, now pending in the Ways and Means Committee.

Two measures are way past plenary debates: Anti-Trafficking in Minors and Women, now signed into law and the Dual Citizenship Law which the Senate approved on third reading and the House of Representatives approved on second reading.