Gregorio Ballesteros Honasan II

Email: piu0720@yahoo.com, gringobhonasan@gmail.com
Website: www.gringohonasan.ph

Personal Information:

Nickname: Gringo Honasan

Profession: Legislator (senator)

Birthday: March 14, 1948

Place of Birth: Baguio City

Parents: Colonel Romeo Honasan and Alice Ballesteros

Spouse: Jane Umali

Present Address: Industrial Valley Complex, Marikina City

Nationality: Filipino

Political Party: United Nationalist Alliance

Education:

Elementary: San Beda College, Manila

Dominican School, Taipei, Taiwan

High School: Don Bosco High School, Mandaluyong

College: University of the Philippines (AB Economics)

Graduate Studies: Philippine Military Academy

Asian Institute of Management (Masters Degree in Business Management)

Professional Experience:

Served as Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of National Defense in 1974.
Became the Department of National Defense’s Chief of Security.
Commandant of Special Operations School at the Philippine Army Training Command in Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija in 1986 to 1987.
Chaired three oversight committees, specifically the Congressional Oversight Committees on Agrarian Reform and Dangerous Drugs, as well as the Joint Oversight Committee on the Human Security Act. He is Vice-Chairperson of the Senate Committees on Local Government, Civil Service and Government Reorganization, Health and Demography, National Defense and Security, Public Works, Rules, and Amateur Sports Competitiveness and a member of 19 major permanent committees and ten oversight committees.
Chairperson of the Senate Committees on Agrarian Reform, Public Order and Dangerous Drugs, and Public Information and Mass Media.

Personal Achievements:

An outstanding student who was accelerated into the higher grades at the San Beda College and Dominican School in Taipei, Taiwan and the Don Bosco High School in Mandaluyong.
Received the academy’s highest leadership award and became the Class Baron at the Philippine Military Academy.
Earned three (3) Distinguished Stars of Counter Insurgency Operations Against Economic Saboteurs and Drug Traffickers.
He received the following awards from 1973-1974: Military Merit Medals, Military Commendation Medals, Anti-Insurgency Medals, Anti-Secessionist Medals and Wounded Personnel Medals for wounds sustained in actual combat, three (3) Gold Cross Medals for Gallantry in Action in the Battles of Lebak, Jolo and Zamboanga.
Awarded as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Men for Military Service by the Jaycees.
Awarded by then President Corazon Aquino with a Distinguished Conduct Star for the EDSA Revolution and the Presidential Government Medal in 1986.
Became the first independent candidate in Philippine history to win a Senate seat when he entered politics in 1995.
Author of the Mini-Marshall Plan for Mindanao, otherwise known as the Mindanao Aid Plan or the The Plan was a comprehensive blueprint for Mindanao’s socio-economic development following the region’s devastation due to the full scale military offensive against the Abu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Sponsored over 200 Medical-Dental-Surgical Missions in depressed areas of the country, serving at least 20,000 indigent patients.
Prime mover of the National Security Strategy Framework which seeks to define the country’s national security and strategy in the light of internal and external security threats and the consequent National Peace Policy.
Sponsored the computer education scholarship of 3,000 students thru the Sulong Dunong sa Kaunlaran program.
Sponsored the college scholarship of 106 out-of-school youths.
Regularly distributes relief assistance to calamity-hit areas in the country through his Gregorio B. Honasan Peace and Development Foundation founded in 1995.
Served thousands of constituents requesting for claims for PVAO, SSS and AFP/PNP claims and refund of teachers’ loans through his Public Service Program aired over RMN-DZXL and DZRH-Radyo Natin and Gringo Honasan Reports aired over RPN-9 and PTV-4

Bills Passed:

Republic Act Number 8368 – a law that decriminalized squatting.
Republic Act Number 8437 – which extends the period of effectivity of the Rent Control Law, from January 1, 1998 until December 31, 2001
Republic Act Number 8501 – Condones penalties imposed by government agencies that are involved in the National Housing Program, all of which have detrimental effect on intended socialized housing program beneficiaries;
Republic Act Number 8532 – Increases the Agrarian Reform Fund to Fifty Billion Pesos that will be used to finance production, credits, infrastructure and other support services and is intended to speed up the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program and will benefit 4,000,000 tillers of land and the agricultural sector;
Concurrent Resolution Number 5 – concurring with the Proclamation number 21 of the Republic of the Philippines, entitled: “Further Amending Proclamation Number 347 Granting Amnesty to Rebels, Insurgents And All Other Persons Who Have Or May Have Committed Crimes In Furtherance Of Political Ends, And Violations Of The Articles Of War, And Creating A National Amnesty Commission, As Amended ”
Republic Act Number 8749, otherwise known as the Clean Air Act (An Act Providing for a Comprehensive Air Pollution Policy and For Other Purposes). This landmark legislation ensures the people’s right to breath clean air via clean fuels, emission regulation, and a ban on incinerators, among others. About 20 Million residents are its projected beneficiaries. The Land Use Act – an Act providing for the national land use policy and planning network and the implementing mechanism
Clean Water Act – an Act providing for a comprehensive water resource policy and water sector development, creating the water resources management commission and for other purposes;
An Act Declaring a National Peace Policy – creating the Commission on Peace and for other purposes falls under the Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation