Department of Budget and Management(DBM-)

April 26, 2023 Dear Arvi Villanueva, This pertains to your request for a copy of the General Appropriations Act of 1994. We do not have an extra copy of the publication you are requesting. However, we can scan a portion of it and send it to you as an attachment. Thus, may we know what specific agency budget do you wish to research so we can scan that portion. You may use the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://socmedialinks07192018-dot-efoi-ph.appspot.com/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEERCTS0xNjc5MzU1Nzk1NDIM, for request with ticket number #DBM-167935579542, to respond. During the period of us awaiting your reply, your request will be put on hold. If we do not receive a reply on or before Jul 19, 2023 01:29:14 AM, your request will be closed. We hope to hear from you at the soonest possible time. Thank you. Respectfully, Advocacy, Communications and Training Service FOI Action Officer

Jun 25, 2023 Dear Arvi, I refer to my letter of Apr 26, 2023 about your request under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7663 - The General Appropriations Act of 1994. In particular, I had requested specific information for you to clarify upon in order for us to proceed with the request. As we have not received a reply within the 60-day working period since the letter requesting for clarification was sent out, we regret to inform you that this request will be closed as of Jul 19, 2023. You may wish to submit a new request describing the specific information you are looking for, and we will be able to consider it under the guidelines as stated in Executive Order No. 2. Your right to request a review If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to or visiting our central office. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request. If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, Budget and Information and Training FOI Officer