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LTO, franchise bills: Sen. Raffy Tulfo presides over the Committee on Public Services hearing Wednesday, October 23, 2024 on 52 bills creating, converting or upgrading various offices of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in different parts of the country. The committee also discussed the franchise applications of two broadcasting networks and three electric cooperatives. “We are tackling these measures because we want to provide better public services to our kababayans. After all, every hearing we have here in the committee is centered on serving the public. This committee’s goal is to serve the people properly and efficiently,” Tulfo said. He said LTO bills seek to ease the difficulties in the processing of vehicle registrations and driver’s licenses either because of congestion or inaccessibility of existing LTO offices. The franchise bills, on the other hand, also need the committee’s consideration. “We always hear that an informed citizenry is an empowered citizenry and we hope that the broadcasting networks applying for renewal of their franchise before us play active roles in providing the public with accurate data and educating the people of their rights and responsibilities especially now that fake news is proliferating,” he added. (Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau).