An Act Creating The Taal Volcano Rehabilitation And Development Commission, Establishing The Taal Volcano Rehabilitation And Development Fund For The Purpose Of Extending Aid, Relief, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Livelihood, And Development Programs And Services To Communities Adversely Affected By The Taal Volcano Eruption, And For Other Purposes

• This proposed measure seeks to strengthen the mechanisms of government to address the needs of families and communities affected by the eruption of Taal Volcano. 
• It seeks to establish a Taal Volcano Rehabilitation and Development Fund, which allocates fifty billion pesos (P50,000,000,000) to provide immediate relief to affected individuals and families; establish resettlement centers, homesites and townsites for displaced families; provide livelihood and employment opportunities for local residents; construct, repair, rehabilitate, or reconstruct public infrastructure needed in the affected communities; and to adopt and implement other interventions that could expedite the return to normalcy in affected localities. 
• The bill also allows Congress to increase this amount through a supplemental budget or through the annual general appropriations. 
• The bill seeks to establish a Taal Rehabilitation and Development Commission to provide structure and direction in the utilization of the Taal Volcano Rehabilitation and Development Fund.
• The Taal Commission shall be comprised of five (5) members from the Cabinet; a Vice Chairperson and Executive Director; two (2) representatives from non-government and civil society organizations; and the Executive Director of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRMMC), and the Governors of the provinces of Batangas and Cavite as ex-officio members. 
• The Taal Commission shall be mandated to prescribe the overall strategic framework in using the Taal Volcano Rehabilitation and Development Fund to address the needs of the affected communities; to spearhead the disaster relief and rehabilitation operations; and to identify, prioritize and implement priority programs and projects to provide aid, relief, resettlement, rehabilitation, livelihood and development services to localities affected by the Taal Volcano eruption, among others. 

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