HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

RECISTRATION UNIT
BILLS AND INDE: E

HOUSE BILL NO. 1490

introduced by Representative Harlin Neil J. Abayon III

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this measure is to improve the living conditions of our AFP soldiers
by providing for an automatic pay increase to any member of the Armed Forces who is
deployed away from the member's permanent station or in the case of a member of a reserve
component of the Armed Forces, the member’s home of record, once the deployment period

exceeds 180 days of continuous duty.

This measure was previously filed by Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada in the 15
Congress. Passage of this bill is earnestly sought now in the 17" Congress.

J. ABAYON III
Epresentative
Party-List AANGAT TAYO.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 1490

Introduced by: Representative Harlin Neil J. Abayon ill

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR AN AUTOMATIC PAY INCREASE TO ANY MEMBER OF
THE ARMED FORCES WHO IS DEPLOYED AWAY FROM THE MEMBER’S
PERMANENT STATION, OR IN THE CASE OF A MEMBER OF A RESERVE
COMPONENT OF THE ARMED FORCES, THE MEMBER’S HOME OF
RECORD, ONCE THE DEPLOYMENT PERIOD EXCEEDS 180 DAYS OF
CONTINUOUS DUTY

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. ~ This Act shall be known as the “
Increase Act.”

xtended Deployment Pay

SECTION 2. Pay Increase for Members of the Armed Forces Serving Deployment in Excess
of 180 Days

(a) Extended Deployment Pay Increase ~ A member of the Armed Forces of the~
Philippines (AFP), who completes a period of one hundred eighty (180) days of
continuous duty on deployment away from the permanent station of the member or, in
the case of a member of a reserve component of the AFP, the home of record of the
member, is entitled to an increase in the rate of basic pay in the amount of P10,000.00
for each month thereafter during which the member continues such deployment. Once
a member has satisfied the continuous duty requirements with respect to a
deployment, the member is not required to re-satisfy the continuous duty requirement
for the same deployment despite any break thereafter in the continuity of the
deployment due to authorized leave or other absence.

(b) Retroactive Application - Duty performed in connection with a deployment
underway as of the date of the enactment of this Act, but commended before such
date, shall be counted toward the 180-day period specified in subsection (a). In case
of a member who completed the required period of continuous duty before the date of
the enactment of this Act, the entitlement to the increase in basic pay shall take effect


on the first day of the first month beginning after the date of the enactment of this
Act.

SECTION 3. Separability Clause. ~ If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provisions not otherwise affected shall
remain valid and subsisting

SECTION 4. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive order,
letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with
the provisions of this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.

SECTION 5. Effectivity Clause - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
complete publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation

Approved,