FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
Second Regular Session 
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S.No. 3145 
Introduced by Senator Antonio "Sonny" F. Trillanes IV 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
More often than not, the telm "disability" involves social restrictions usually imposed on 
mentally or physically-impaired people by a hugely discriminatory society. 
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, which was 
adopted on 13 December 2006, follows decades of work by the United Nations to change 
attitudes and approaches to persons with disabilities. It serves as a human rights instrument with 
an explicit, social development dimension, which reaffinns that all persons with all types of 
disabilities must enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedom. 
Moreover, the same Convention intends to clmify and qualify how all categories of rights apply 
to persons with disabilities, as it identifies areas where adaptations have to be made for persons 
with disabilities to effectively exercise their rights, and areas where their rights have been 
violated, and where protection of rights must be reinforced. 
In our country, Republic Act No. 7277, otherwise known as the "Magna Carta for Disabled 
Persons", grants certain rights and privileges for disabled persons. It provides equal opportunity 
for employment to qualified disabled persons in government office. However, still in most cases, 
lives of persons with disabilities are handicapped by physical and social baniers which hamper 
their full participation in the society. The said law, in fact, limits employment opportunities of 
persons with disability to certain government agencies, offices or corporations engaged in social 
development alone. 
Recognizing that persons with disabilities have skills and potentials that will enable them to 
compete favorably for available opportunities in the society, this bill seeks to expand th~ number 
of positions reserved for disabled persons in the entire government service, as well as private 
corporations. 
In view of the foregoing, approval of this measure is earnestly sought. 
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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES) 
Second Regular Session 
) 
SENATE 
S.No. 31,15 
Introduced by Senator Antonio "SonIlY" F. Trillanes IV 
AN ACT 
EXPANDING THE POSITIONS RESERVED FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITY, 
AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7277, AS AMENDED, 
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 
THE "MAGNA CARTA FOR PERSONS WITH 
DISABILITY" 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Equal Opportunity for Employment. - Section 5 of Republic Act 
No. 7277, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
'SEC. 5. Equal Opportunity for Employment. - No [disabled) person 
with DISABILITY shall be denied access to opportunities for suitable 
employment. A qualified [disabled) employee WITH DISABILITY shall be 
subject to the same terms and conditions of employment and the same 
compensation, privileges, benefits, fringe benefits, incentives or allowances as a 
qualified able bodied person. 
[Five) ONE percent [(5%)) (1 %) of 
all [casual, emergency and 
contractual) positions in [the Departments of Social Welfare and Development; 
Health; 
Education, 
Culture 
and 
Sports; 
and other] 
ALL 
government 
agencies, offices or corporations AND PRIVATE CORPORATIONS [engaged 
in social development] shall be reserved for [disabled] persons WITH 
DISABILITY;' 
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SEC. 2. Separability Clause. 
- Should any provision of this Act be found 
unconstitutional by a court of! aw, snch provision shall be severed from the remainder of this 
Act, and such action shall not affect the enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 3. Repealing Clause. - All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, and rules 
and regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified 
according! y. 
SEC. 4. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in 
any two (2) newspapers of genera! circulation. 
Approved, 
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