Role of committees in passing a bill into law

The scrutiny at the committee level makes legislation easier because committee
members usually make sure that the law is wise, practical and constitutional
before they submit the same for first-reading calendar. Of course, it
sometimes happens that a law is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
for violating the fundamental law but the reason why this does not always
happen is, first, the strict scrutiny at the committee level and, second, the
debates and discussions in the second reading.
A committee may dispose of a bill in one of several ways: it may
approve, or
reject, the legislation with or
without amendments; rewrite the bill
entirely; reject it, which essentially
kills the bill;
report it favorably or without
recommendation, which allows the chamber to consider the bill. It must be
noted that under Section 29, Rule XI of the Rules of the Senate, if the
reports submitted are unfavorable, they shall be transmitted to the archives
of the Senate, unless five Senators shall, in the following session, move
for their inclusion in the Calendar for Ordinary Business, in which case the
President shall so order.
Again, the above details are no longer found in the 1987 Constitution. They
are rules promulgated by the Senate or the House of Representatives to make
sure that the law-making process is beneficial to all concerned.