Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Fifteenth Congress
First Regular Session

21
HOUSE BILL NO. _2tet

Introduced by: Honorable GEORGE P. ARNAIZ

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Philippine Constitution expressly states that no Filipino
citizen should be homeless in his country. However, it is a well
known fact that most lands in this country, especially alienable and
disposable lands, are subject or are already under private claims or
ownership, thereby limiting available lands for most of the poor who
also deserve a land to call their own.

It is in this context that the City of Bais, after due
deliberations, have decided to explore the possibility of reclassifying
certain portions of its vast timberland areas into alienable and
disposable land for the sole purpose of allocating it to the landless
and homeless residents of the City through its planned socialized
housing development program while at the same time allowing
them the opportunity to avail of the different services that the City
could provide as well as the opportunity to enhance their livelihood
needs and become productive citizens of the City.

The lot to be reclassified is approximately 15,6587 hectares
as delineated by the Department of Environment and Natural
Resources and part of Lot 734, CAD 115 of the Bais City Cadastre.
It is at present classified as Timberland for Fishpond Development
and is quite proximate to the City Hall of Bais City. It is not used for
its original purpose as it is being occupied by the landless residents
of the City. Instead of allowing the area to grow into a slum colony
that may later pose as a problem to the City in terms of sanitation
and peace and order, just among other urban problems, national
government should legitimize the occupancy of our landless
residents. The legitimation process can be done be implementing a


socialized housing development program, which as proposed has
gained the support of government agencies concerned with the
alleviation of the plight of our poor countrymen. However, the
socialized housing development program of the government could
not be realized if the land in question is not suitabl sified as

comes to the disposition of land and other purpeSes. For this reason,
immediate approval of this bill is earnestly s

GE P. ARNAIZ
Representative
2” District, Oriental Negros


Republic of the Philippi
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Fifteenth Congress
First Regular Session
228:
HOUSE BILLNO.

Introduced by : Honorable GEORGE P. ARNAIZ

AN ACT RECLASSIFYING THE 15.6587 HECTARES OF LAND
WITHIN LOT NO. 734E OF CAD 115, BAIS CADASTRE FROM
TIMBERLAND FOR’ FISHPOND DEVELOPMENT INTO
ALIENABLE AND DISPOSABLE LAND FOR SOCIALIZED
HOUSING PROJECT

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

SECTION 1. The 15.6587 hectares of land, which forms part
of Lot 734E of CAD 115, Bais Cadastre as delineated with the
following technical description, is hereby reclassified as alienable
and disposable land for socialized housing project:

_____LINE BEARING DISTANCE
BBMI-1 N 84% 28’ E 83.13M

i 2 N 51% 00’ W 60.82”

23 N 38% 17°E __ | 4.94"

3 4 N 14% 23’ W 11.48”

45 N 84% 36’ W 16.86”

[5 6 N 51% 00’ W 40.29”

6 7 N 09% 00’ W 150.00” |
Ta 28 N 75% 00° W 44.70” |

89 N 63% 08° W 23.79”

[910 N 86% 10’ W 25.29” i
1041 N 75% 00° W [83.67" |
if 12 N 67% 54° W. 3.02” |
15 743 N 76% 02’ W 20.56” —
1314 N 15% 00° W 23.03”

1415 N 68% OO 313.54” |



15 16 S 69% 31'E ‘ 304.12”

17 S$ 22% 47'E 49.61"
18 S 63% 26'E 64.85" |
19 S 17% 39° W 23.09”
20 S 56% 39° W 56.30”
2021 S 09% 56°E 109.60”
[2122 S 23% 41’ W 204.20" _ |
2223 $ 00% 59’ E _| 175.02”
[2324 S 56% 58'E [70.33"
24 25 N 17% 39° E |502.38” -
25 26 S$ 39% 24° W 62.96"
26 27 S$ 01% 12’W | 207.85”
[27 28 S 32% 24’'W 1129.47"

SECTION 2. The lands herein reclassified shall be subject to
actual survey and subdivision planning for equitable distribution to
qualified residents as determined by the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)-Provincial Office, in
accordance with the existing criteria of the National Housing
Authority.

SECTION 3. All laws, decrees, orders, proclamations, rules
and regulations, which are inconsistent with this Act are hereby
repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved,