Inaprubahan nitong Miyerkules ng House Committees on Government Reorganization and on Welfare of Children ang House Bill 7118 na lumikha ng Philippine Commission on Children (PCC).

Kapag ito ay naisabatas, bubuwagin ang Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) at ang ipapalit ang PCC, na makikipag-ugnayan sa government at non-government agencies, at sa Local Councils for the Protection of Children (LCPC).

Ang panukala ay inakda nina PBA Party-list Reps. Mark Aeron Sambar, Jericho Nograles, at Committee on Appropriations Chairman Karlo Alexei Nograles (1st District, Davao City).

-Bert De Guzman
National

4.5-magnitude na lindol, yumanig sa Surigao del Norte