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INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE "BONG" T. GO
AN ACT
POSTPONING THE MAY 2020 BARANGAY AND SANGGUNIANG KABATAAN 
ELECTIONS TO OCTOBER 2022, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE REPUBLIC 
ACT NO. 9164, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10952, REPUBLIC ACT 
NO.10632, REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10656, AND REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10923, 
AND REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10952, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This bill seeks to postpone the May 2020 Barangay and Sangguniang 
Kabataan Elections to October 2022.
The barangay is a basic political unit in the country, it is mandated to 
maintain public order and ensure the protection of life, liberty and property in each 
of its respective jurisdiction. It serves as the primary planning and implementing unit 
of government policies, plans, programs, projects and activities in the community 
and as a forum wherein views and contending claims of the residents of the 
barangay are collected, addressed and amicably settled. The Sangguniang Kabataan 
was instituted as a medium for the youth to participate in nation building at the 
grassroots level.
It is therefore vital that the local officials of the Barangays and Sangguniang 
Kabataan be given ample time and continuity to pursue and implement the 
programs they have set in their respective jurisdictions. It is of common knowledge 
that these local officials were elected just last May 14, 2018, their supposed three- 
year term as guaranteed by the letter of the law was cut to two years. We cannot let


these local officials carry this burden; we nnust protect their tenure in order for them 
to be given the chance to implement the programs they have set out to achieve.
In order to further efficiency and continuity, the May 2020 elections for 
Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan should be moved to October 2022.
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.
ER LAWRENCE "BONG
SENATOR CHRISTORHER LAWRENCE "BONG" T. GO


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INTRODUCED BY SENATOR CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE "BONG" T. GO
AN ACT
POSTPONING THE MAY 2020 BARANGAY AND SANGGUNIANG KABATAAN 
ELECTIONS TO OCTOBER 2022, AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE REPUBLIC 
ACT NO. 9164, AS AMENDED BY REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10952, REPUBLIC ACT 
NO.10632, REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10656, AND REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10923, 
AND REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10952, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the Philippines in 
Congress assembled:
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SECTION 1. 
Section 1 of Republic Act No. 10952 is hereby fu rth e r
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am ended to read as follows:
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"Sec. 1. Date o f Election.— There shall be synchronized
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barangay and sangguniang kabataan elections, which shall be
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held on July 15, 2002. Subsequent synchronized barangay
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and sangguniang kabataan elections shall be held on the last
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Monday of October 2007 and 
every three (3) years
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thereafter: Provided, That the barangay and sangguniang
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kabataan elections on October 23, 2017 shall be postponed to
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the second Monday of May 2018. Subsequent synchronized
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barangay and sangguniang kabataan elections shall be held
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on the second Monday of October [2020] 2022 and every
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three (3) years thereafter."
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SECTION 2. Hold Over -  Until the successors shall have been duly elected
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and qualified, all incumbent barangay officials shall remain in office, unless sooner


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removed or suspended for cause.
SECTION 3. Implementing Rules and Regulations 
-  The Commission on 
Elections within ninety (90) days after the effectivity of this Act, shall promulgate 
such rules and regulations necessary to implement this Act.
SECTION 4. Repealing Clause 
-  All law, decrees, ordinances, rules or 
regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Act 
are hereby expressly repealed, amended, or modified accordingly.
SECTION 5. Separability Clause -  If for any reason any section or provision 
of this Act is declared to be unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or 
provisions hereof which are not affected hereby shall continue to be in full force and 
effect.
SECTION 6. Effectivity -  This Act shall become effective fifteen (15) days 
after its publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) newspapers of general 
circulation.
Approved,