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SENATE
S.B. No. 1956
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INTRODUCED BY: SENATOR EMMANUEL D. PACQUIAO
AN ACT
PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF THE BARANGAY OFFICIALS 
BY PROVIDING REGULARIZATION, SALARY STANDARDIZATION, AND 
SPECIAL RISK ALLOWANCE IN TIMES OF STATE OF EMERGENCY OR 
CALAMITIES AND DURING SIMILAR SITUATIONS AS MAY BE DECLARED BY 
THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Section 384 of Republic Act No. 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code 
of 1991, directs the barangay government unit to serve as the primary planning and implementing 
unit of government policies, plans, programs, projects, and activities in the community, and as a 
forum wherein the collective views of the people may be expressed, crystallized and considered, 
and where disputes may be amicably settled.
The country has been repeatedly witness to the selfless service of barangay officials and 
personnel in the performance of the above said responsibilities.
This service was again exemplified and dramatically shown in the leading role that our 
barangay leaders, staff and volunteers exhibited as the National Government’s basic partner in the 
implementation of the policies, rules and regulations to control the effects of the Covid-l9 
pandemic, and in primarily helping to make these acceptable to our countrymen, both at the 
community level.
The barangay organization also effectively served to support the PNP and AFP in 
controlling movements between barangay boundaries, one of the solutions that directly helped in 
minimizing the spread of the Covid-l9 infection. Moreover, and despite the danger to their own 
health, barangay personnel assisted in the monitoring and helped in identifying the seriously


Covid-19 afflicted in their barangays, and to push the objective to completion, in many cases they 
promptly brought them to hospitals and identified quarantine facilities.
Significantly, Section 389 of Republic Act No. 7160, imposed duties upon the Punong 
Barangays similar in concept, but for the barangay level and purposes, to those of their mayors or 
governors. The Punong Barangay is the local chief executive exercising the basic duty of executing 
laws and ordinances applicable in the barangay. The Sangguniang Barangay, which is composed 
of the Punong Barangay, the regular Sangguniang Barangay members, and the Sangguniang 
Kabataan chairman, exercises legislative powers in the consideration and passage of barangay 
ordinances. The barangay officers also constitute the Lupong Tagapagpamayapa, which performs 
Judicial functions and settles disputes in the barangay level.
Despite the extensive range of duties and responsibilities that Punong Barangays and other 
barangay officials perform, they only receive monthly honoraria instead of fixed monthly salaries, 
with some added minimal benefits, as specified or provided for in Sections 393 and 434 of R. A. 
No. 7160. They are not entitled to the same employment benefits and privileges that other local 
government officials enjoy.
In addition, there is no commensurate remuneration for the dangers they assume during 
times such as the extended Covid-19 challenge that the country is experiencing, and likewise no 
clear and concomitant health benefits they can expect when they themselves get afflicted by the 
sicknesses they help to control.
As the primary facilitators of government projects and programs on the ground and the 
frontline providers of the government services, it is just worthy that the national government grant 
them just and humane commensurate compensation and benefits to bolster the morale and promote 
good governance and justice.
Thus, this bill seeks to provide regularization, salary standardization, and additional 
benefits that will supplement those already provided in existing laws, rules and regulations, in 
favor of all appointed and elected barangay officials. This bill also proposes that the Punong 
Barangay, members of the Sangguniang Barangay, the Sangguniang Kabataan Chairperson, the 
Barangay Secretary, and Barangay Treasurer in all barangays be declared as regular government 
employees of the Government.
In view of the foregoing, the approval of this bill is earnestly sought.
EMM,
UIAO


EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Second Regular Session
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SENATE
S.B. No. 1956
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FILED
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INTRODUCED BY: SENATOR EMMANUEL D. PACQUIAO
AN ACT
PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF THE BARANGAY OFFICIALS 
BY PROVIDING REGULARIZATION, SALARY STANDARDIZATION, AND 
SPECIAL RISK ALLOWANCE IN TIMES OF STATE OF EMERGENCY OR 
CALAMITIES AND DURING SIMILAR SITUATIONS AS MAY BE DECLARED BY 
THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and House ofRepresentatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled:
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SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Barangay Officials Salary 
Standardization Act of 2020.”
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is the policy of the State to promote the welfare of the 
barangay officials, raise their economic and social status, and provide renumeration and benefit 
reforms for them to ensure the barangay’s enjoyment of local autonomy for the effective 
performance of its role as the primary planning and implementing unit of government 
programs, projects and activities, and as a forum in which the collective views of the people in 
the community may be crystallized and considered.
SEC. 3. Salary Standardization of Barangay Officials. - The Punong Barangay, members of 
the Sangguniang Barangay, the Sangguniang Kabataan Chairperson, the Barangay Secretary, 
and Barangay Treasurer in all barangays are hereby declared regular government employees, 
and as such entitled to fixed salaries, allowances, insurance, medical and dental coverage, 
retirement benefits, and such other incentives and fringe benefits which, under Civil Service 
laws, rules and regulations, a regular government employee is entitled.
SEC. 4. Position Classification and Compensation Scheme for Barangay Officials, Personnel 
and Volunteer Workers. - Barangay officials, personnel, and volunteer workers shall be


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entitled to salaries, benefits or allowances as compensation for services they shall have 
rendered.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) shall develop a standardized Position 
Classification and Compensation Scheme for Barangay Officials, Personnel, and Volunteer 
Workers, taking into consideration their educational qualification, nature of work intended to 
be performed, and the financial capability of their respective barangays, and subject to the 
minimum qualification standards and guidelines to be prescribed by the Civil Service 
Commission (CSC).
Such position classification and compensation scheme shall conform with the following 
guidelines:
(a) The Position Classification and Compensation Scheme for Barangay Officials and 
Personnel shall be comprised of three salary grades, namely:
a. Barangay Salary Grade I for barangay appointive officials as already provided 
by law, and other barangay personnel the positions of which are provided for 
by ordinance of the corresponding barangay;
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Barangay Salary Grade II for barangay elective officials in the Sangguniang 
Kabataan and Sangguniang Barangay with the exception of the Punong 
Barangay, and
c. Barangay Salary Grade III for Punong Barangay.
(b) The minimum monthly salary for the salary grades for barangay officials and personnel 
shall be as follows:
a. Barangay Salary Grade I — Fifteen Thousand Pesos (P15,000)
b. Barangay Salary Grade II - Twenty Five Thousand Pesos (P25,000)
c. Barangay Salary Grade III — Thirty Five Thousand Pesos (P35,000)
Provided, that said monthly salaries shall be subject to applicable statutory deductions 
to enable membership benefits from the government social agencies; Provided, further 
that no barangay official or personnel shall suffer reduction, diminution or withdrawal 
of salaries and benefits already enjoyed by the barangay official or personnel 
concerned: Provided, finally that the budget ceiling for annual personnel services 
appropriations of fifty-five percent (55%) of the total annual income actually realized 
from local sources during the next preceding fiscal year, as provided in Section 331 (b) 
of Republic Act No. 7160, as amended, otherwise known as the “Local Government 
Code of 1991,” shall apply.
(c) As regularized government employees, said baraingay officials and personnel shall 
likewise be entitled to 13th month pay, a Christrhas bonus of P3,000.00, and other 
bonuses as may be provided by law.


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SEC. 5. Special Risk Allowance (SRA). - As the country proceeds to the establishment of the 
new normal during the continuance of the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country and 
of the management thereof by the Inter-Agency Task Force, and during similar situations in 
the future as may be declared by the National Government, and in recognition of the fact that 
barangay officials and personnel shall have key responsibilities in the ground strategy to 
implement and maintain Covid-19 and future emergency control mechanisms, the barangay 
officials and personnel covered in Section 4 of this Act shall be granted a Special Risk 
Allowance the adequacy of amount and continuance of period of entitlement of which shall be 
determined by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). The DILG shall 
specially provide for similar benefits to barangay volunteers as the same shall be specified to 
be appropriate.
During such periods covered by the SRA, the Department of Health, through its 
appropriate offices, agencies and local health units, shall provide supplemental and adequate 
health coverage and benefits corresponding to the health risks that barangay officials and 
personnel shall face in the situation of such periods. The DILG shall specially provide for 
similar benefits to barangay volunteers as the same shall be specified to be appropriate.
SEC. 6. Rice Allowances. — In addition to the benefits and entitlements for barangay officials 
and personnel already provided for in R. A. No. 7160, as otherwise adjusted in this Act, the 
DILG shall additionally provide quarterly rice allocations for barangay officials and personnel 
covered in Section 4 of this Act.
SEC. 7. Review of Benefits and Entitlements. - The DILG shall conduct a regular review, which 
shall not extend beyond ten (10) years at any one time, of the sufficiency and adequacy of the 
benefits and entitlements of barangay officials and personnel as provided in existing laws, 
including this Act; Provided, that existing benefits and entitlements shall not be diminished.
SEC. 8. Special Local Allowances. — Supplemental remunerations, benefits or other 
entitlements that the municipal, city, or provincial governments of respective barangays shall 
not be offset to the remunerations, benefits or other entitlements specified or provided for in 
this Act.
SEC. 9. Barangay Volunteers. — In addition to benefits arid entitlements already provided for 
in the foregoing Sections of this Act, barangay volunteer and other barangay workers that are 
not covered in Section 4 of this Act shall be entitled to teriiporary honoraria and other benefits, 
incentives or allowances as may be determined and appropriated for by their respective 
barangays, municipalities, cities or provinces.
SEC. 10. Barangay Official Eligibility. - Pursuant to Republic Act No. 7160 and Civil Service 
Commission Memorandum Circular No. 13, s. 2012, Barangay Officials shall be qualified for 
Barangay Official Eligibility based strictly on completion of term of office, subject to 
qualifications and provisions of the rules of the Civil Service Commission.


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SEC. 11. Appropriations. - The amount necessary to implement the provisions of this 
Act shall be funded by the National Government under the Annual General 
Appropriations Act (GAA).
SEC. 12. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part hereof is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity and effectivity of the other 
provisions hereof.
SEC. 13. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, orders and issuances, or portions 
thereof, which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, 
amended, or modified accordingly.
SEC. 14. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication 
in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,