Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
          NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ______________ 
_____________________________________________________________________________________ 
 Introduced by Rep. Wilfrido Mark M. Enverga 
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EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Filipino children up to six (6) years of age deserve the best care and 
attention at the family and community levels. Towards this end, Republic Act No. 
6972 was enacted in 1990 which mandates the establishment a day care center 
in every barangay.  
Day Care Centers provides support programs that ensure total 
development and protection of children. Day Care workers provide intellectual 
and mental stimulation to the children, as well as supervised wholesome 
recreation, with a balanced program of supervised play, mental stimulation 
activities, and group activities. They are utilized to assist in the care of children 
and provide consultative services for medical, educational, and other needs of 
the children. 
 Twenty-six (26) years after its passage, out of 42,026 barangays in the 
country, 4,570 barangays had yet to establish their own day care center. 
Moreover, many of the day care centers existing in the country are in very 
deplorable conditions. Most of these Centers are in need of renovation or 
rehabilitation.  
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                   Lack of funds has been the perennial problem in our day care system. 
The government has not been able to provide enough resources (i.e., building, 
materials, medicines, children books, tables and chairs) and nutrition to support 
the ever increasing number children in the day care program.  
 
                   The present budgetary allocation of the Department of Social Welfare 
and Development and the LGUs cannot address the deficiency in the day care 
program due to other priorities. 
 
                 This bill seeks to address pressing problems in the implementation of 
day care program nationwide i.e., shortages of center, day care materials and 
equipments, dilapidated centers and others by providing for one-time 
appropriations to address such deficiencies.  
 
 
                 In light of the foregoing, passage of this bill is urgently sought.  
       
 
 
                                                       
 
 
                                                                                       
 
                                                             WILFRIDO MARK M. ENVERGA 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
          NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ______________ 
_____________________________________________________________________________________ 
 Introduced by Rep. Wilfrido Mark M. Enverga 
  ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR DAY CARE CENTERS REHABILITATION AND 
IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, CREATING DAY CARE CENTERS 
REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT FUND, APPROPRIATING FUNDS 
THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION.  1.  Title – This Act shall be known as “Day Care Centers 
Rehabilitation and Improvement Act of 2019” 
       SEC.  2.   Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the 
State to defend the  right of children to assistance, including proper care and 
nutrition, and to provide them with special protection against all forms of neglect, 
abuse, cruelty, exploitation, and other conditions prejudicial to their development. 
Filipino children up to six (6) years of age deserve the best care and attention at the 
family and community levels. Towards this end, the State shall endeavor to provide 
Filipino children in every barangay facilities that are adequate, safe and conducive 
to enable the children achieve their holistic development. Accordingly, the State 
shall ensure a continuing effort towards rehabilitation and improvement of all day 
care centers nationwide. 
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            SEC. 3.   Objective. – There shall be established a comprehensive and 
continuing Day Care Centers Rehabilitation and Improvement Program, 
hereinafter referred to as the “Program” which shall have the following 
objectives:              
(a) To address the inadequacy of day care centers in the country; 
(b) To rehabilitate/improve and renovate dilapidated centers; 
(c) To improve the delivery of day care services; 
(d) To foster an environment in the center conducive for barangay 
level total development and protection of children. 
 
                    SEC. 4.    Day Care Rehabilitation and Improvement Council. – There  
        is hereby created a  Day Care Rehabilitation and Improvement Council in the  
        Department of Social Welfare and Development which shall be headed by the  
        Department Secretary as Chairperson and representatives of various national  
        leagues in the provinces, cities and municipalities as member.  
 
                   The council shall formulate and adopt a comprehensive program and  
       guidelines to resolve the shortages of day care Centers, its rehabilitation and  
       improvement of centers, deficiencies in day care materials, equipments and  
       furniture and fixtures. 
 
               SEC. 5.  Day Care Rehabilitation and Improvement Fund. – There is 
hereby created a trust fund, to be known as Day Care Rehabilitation and 
Improvement 
Fund 
for 
which 
the 
sum 
of 
Fifty 
Billion 
Pesos 
(P50,000,000,000.00) shall be appropriated. The total amount allocated herein 
shall be used exclusively for the construction, rehabilitation and/or repair, 
renovation of day care centers in the country, the procurement of day care 
materials, equipment, furniture and fixtures pursuant to the program and 
guidelines as determined by the Council. 
 
 
 


                Provided, that all unexpected balance, after the completion of the work 
and/or procurement authorized for each fiscal year, shall at once revert to the 
National Treasury to the credit of the appropriation provided for under this Act 
and shall not be withdrawn from it nor expended except for the purpose 
indicated herein. Such unexpended balance for any fiscal year shall be added to 
the appropriation for the next fiscal year and expended accordingly. 
 
                SEC. 6.  Bidding. – Any provision of law to the contrary 
notwithstanding, funds allocated under the provision of this Act shall be 
executed through public bidding in accordance with the existing government 
rules and regulations. 
 
               SEC. 7.  Appropriation.- The amount needed to implement this Act 
shall be included in  the General Appropriations Act of the year. 
 
                      SEC. 8.    Separability. - Should any provision of this Act be found  
        unconstitutional by a court of law, such provision shall be severed from the  
        remainder of this Act, and such action shall not affect the enforceability of the  
        remaining provisions of this Act. 
 
                     SEC. 9.     Effectivity.-  This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its  
         complete publication in any two (2) national newspapers of general circulation. 
. 
  APPROVED,