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Senate Bill No. 2778 
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Introduced by Senator Lacson 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill aims to declare the conferment of a doctorate degree equivalent to entry 
level Career Executive Service Officer eligibility in the civil service. 
Section 3, B, Article IX ofthe 1987 Constitution provides: 
"The Civil Service Commission, as the central personnel agency of the 
Govermnent, 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 Career Executive Service 
Officer eligibility. 
By virtue of Republic Act No. 1080, the bar examinations and the examinations 
given by the various boards of examiners of the Govermnent 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 and career advancement in the civil 
service. 
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FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
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OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
) 
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MAR 31 
P5 :33 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 2778 
Introduced by: Senator Lacson 
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: 
SECTION 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 Officer (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 lmowledge not covered by the doctorate degree of 
the holder. 
SECTION 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. 
SECTION 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. 
SECTION 4. The Civil Service Commission shall promulgate the rules and 
regulations to implement the provisions of this Act. 
SECTION 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.