OTHER LEGISLATIONS AIMED AT ADDRESSING TERRORISM AND ILLEGAL DRUGS 1. Amendments to the Human Security Act (HSA) - to strengthen the coordination and authority of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) and the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) in suppressing terrorism. In amending the HSA, the NICA, or its successor organization, shall continue to perform its duty as Secretariat of the ATC. On the other hand, the ATC-Program Management Center, in addition to its other tasks, shall continue to serve as the coordinator of the Council in the performance of the Council’s functions. The institutionalization of this set up will be done by the inclusion of the ATC-PMC in the HSA amendment. Moreover, the objective of the amendatory bill is generally to make the law consistent with the UN Conventions on AntiTerrorism and the adoption of international best practices, considering that since the enactment of the HSA, no case has prospered in the country. 2. Amendments to the Anti-Wiretapping Law - to judicially authorize the real-time/live monitoring of telecommunications in cases involving pre-identified and confirmed persons or entities linked to terrorism and other grave criminal activities. 3. Enactment of a SIM Card Registration Law - to pre-identify users of SIM cards and facilitate their identification, as well as deter those who plan to use the same for terrorist or other criminal activities. 4. Amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Financing Law - to freeze any account of pre-identified or confirmed terrorist personalities, organizations or other entities engaged in terrorist financing or trafficking in strategic goods (i.e. weapons of mass destruction and items of dual/alternative use that can be applied in, converted to, or otherwise made a part of weapons of mass destruction, pursuant to our obligation under UNSCR 2178) in coordination with the work of AMLC. 5. Enactment of an Official Secrets Act – to: (1) absorb best practices/provisions from laws of various countries that already have such legislation; (2) provide classification and parameters for classifying government secrets, authority for classifying and declassifying; (3) provide funds for required hardware and software for databases, protocol for storage, retrieval, access to, declassification and release to the public, period for storage, and protocol for destruction; (4) proscribe solicitation by foreign user/s; and (5) legislate severe criminal liability for violations. 6. Amendments to the Cybercrime Law – to authorize, without prior judicial intervention/court order, the blocking of any Internet site or source of pre-identified/confirmed terrorists, terrorist organizations, or others propagandizing, inviting, inducing, recruiting for terrorism, including terrorist financing for timely immediate action. In amending the Cybercrime law, include provision of guidelines and detailed description of the crimes. 7. Amendments to the Passport Law – to authorize the Department of Justice (DOJ), without prior judicial intervention/court order, to withhold, suspend, cancel/revoke passports or other travel documents of Filipino extremists who have undergone trainings or have fought with/joined UN proscribed terrorist organizations. The DOJ confirmation of the legal basis for these actions will be for the immediate implementation of the Department of Foreign Affairs. Also, this requires synchronization and amendment of the Immigration Law. [33]