Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
@usgon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS.
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO. 1573

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill aims to declare the conferment of a doctorate degree
equivalent to entry level Career Executive Service Officer (CESO)
eligibility in the civil service.

Section 3, B, Article IX of the 1987 Constitution provides:

"The Civil Service Commission, as the central personnel
agency of the Government, shall establish a career service
and adopt measures to promote morale, efficiency, integrity,
responsiveness, progressiveness, and courtesy in the civil
service. It shall strengthen the merit and reward system,
integrate all human resources development programs for all
levels and ranks, and institutionalize a management climate
conducive to public accountability..."

It envisions that appointments in the civil service be made only
according to merit and fitness to be determined by competitive
examination, except those positions which are policy determining,
primarily confidential or highly technical.

Pursuant to this, the Commission regularly conducts professional
and sub-professional examinations all over the country. With regard to
executive positions in the civil service, appointments and promotions
thereto require a CESO eligibility.

By virtue of Republic Act No. 1080, the bar examinations and the
examinations given by the various boards of examiners of the
Government are declared as civil service examinations. Hence, those who
Passed these examinations may be appointed into the civil service without
the necessity of passing the civil service examinations, except those
positions requiring highly specialized knowledge not covered by the
ordinary board examinations.



This bill aims to grant the same if not a more fitting privilege to
holders of doctorate degrees recognizing their educational competence
and fitness for appointment or promotion to executive positions in the
civil service by reason of their having completed post graduate studies
which is equivalent, if not more than passing the bar or board
examinations. This is to grant them, many of whom are academicians, the
equal opportunity with CESO holders in terms of growth id career
advancement in the civil service.

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LUIS R. VILWAFUERTE



Republic of the Bhilippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
@uzzon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

AN ACT DECLARING THE CONFERMENT OF A DOCTORATE DEGREE
AS EQUIVALENT TO ENTRY LEVEL CAREER EXECUTIVE
SERVICE OFFICER ELIGIBILITY IN THE CIVIL, SERVICE

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:

SeEcTION 1. The conferment of a doctorate degree by an institution
of higher learning duly accredited by the Commission on Higher Education
is hereby declared as equivalent to entry level Career Executive Service
Eligibility (CESO) eligibility in the civil service for purposes of appointment
to executive positions in the classified service in the Government or any
of its branches, subdivisions, instrumentalities and agencies including
government-owned or controlled corporations with original charters,
except with regard to positions requiring highly specialized knowledge not
covered by the doctorate degree of the holder.

Sec. 2. The registrars or other responsible officers of duly
accredited colleges and universities offering doctorate degrees shall
regularly furnish the Civil Service Commission with a list of graduates of
their respective colleges or universities who have been conferred with

doctorate degrees within sixty days from conferment.



Sec. 3. Eligibility shall commence on the date of conferment.
Provided, that for those who have already been conferred doctorate
degrees prior to the passage of this Act, their eligibility shall be deemed
to commence from the approval hereof.

Sec. 4. The Civil Service Commission shall promulgate the rules and
regulations to implement the provisions of this Act.

Sec. 5. This Act shall tale effect fifteen (15) days after the
completion of its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of
general circulation.

Approved,