1-PACMAN party-list Rep. Mikee Romero is batting for the approval of a bill requiring citizen service training for college students.
He backed the passage of the National Citizen Service Training and Reserve Officers’ Training Corps bill.
Romero is a reserve officer in the Philippine Air Force with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The proposed measure would amend Republic Act No. 7077 or the Reservists’ Law that provides for the formation and training of a “citizen armed force of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.”
The bill’s final approval by the House of Representatives and Senate would expand the military reservists’ organization.
In December 2023, Cong passed on third and final reading its version of the NSTC-ROTC bill that shall compel college students to go a two-year mandatory citizen service training, while ROTC would be optional.
Romualdez is the principal author of the NSTC-ROTC bill, which has been pending in the Senate for over a year.
