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Introduced by Senator Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The need for our public school teachers could not be more evident at any 
The cost of providing education has continuously surged the past years, 
making it more and more difficult for the government to bring education within the 
reach not only of the impoverished but the average Filipino as well. With the rise 
in the prices of goods and cost of living, the clamour of school teachers and 
employees in the government service for increase in compensation and 
additional benefits remain unanswered. 
However, the plight of the aforementioned government employees is not 
merely confined in the want of increased salaries and additional benefits. For 
they are unable to enjoy even the salaries and benefits presently existing and 
provided by law by reason of the delay in their disbursement, most of them are 
forced to acquire unnecessary loans. Much worse is the fact that teachers 
coming from regions outside Metro Manila are forced to travel to Manila in cases 
wherein there are problems and concerns with their respective salaries, the 
Payroll Service Division being based thereat. As a result, their hard-earned 
salaries are spent and exhausted by merely conducting follow-ups for the 
remuneration and benefits already due them. 
This bill, though it may not be the ultimate solution to the current 
predicament of our public school teachers and other employees of the 
Department of Education, seeks to ease such burden by decentralizing the 
Payroll Service Division of the Department of Education, thereby providing a 
machinery that would ensure their timely receipt of their salaries and benefits and 
preventing them from being further saddled with the needless delay and costs of 
transacting and processing their concerns in the Manila office. 
other time than now. 
In view of the foregoing, passage of this bill is urgently requested. 


FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE ) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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Second Regular Session 
Introduced by Senator Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr. 
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE REGIONALIZATION OF THE 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PAYROLL SERVICES DIVISION AND 
PROVIDING FOR FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be if enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Philippines in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Decentralization of the Payroll Services Division. - The 
payroll Services Division of the Department of Education (DepEd) shall be 
decentralized. Pursuant thereto, a Regional Payroll Services Unit (RPSU) shall 
be established in every regional office of the Department including the 
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). 
SEC. 2. Duties and Responsibilities. - The RPSU shall have the 
following duties and responsibilities: 
(a) Process, print and distribute the salary checks of public 
elementary and secondary school teachers including those of nonteaching 
personnel; 
(b) Adopt necessary measures in ensuring the release of salary 
checks of teachers and other personnel not later than three (3) days 
before the end of the month for which such salaries are due; 
(c) Ensure that the salaries and other compensation benefits of 
newly hiredlappointed teachers and nonteaching personnel, including 
those who are returning from leave of absence without pay, are released 
not later than seven (7) days from the date the documents for such claims 
are received; 
(d) Take all steps to ensure that complaints from teachers and 
nonteaching personnel for unauthorized deductions, over-deductions, non- 
deductions, and other salary-related problems are attended to within 
seven (7) days from receipt of such complaints; and 
(e) Furnish each teacher and other personnel every time the salary 
check is released, a pay slip containing the following information: date of 
issuance of the check; total salary due for a given period; itemized 
deductions; and the amount being released. 
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SEC. 3. Manpower Complement. - The RPSU shall be headed by the 
Chief of the Budget and Finance Division who shall perform this function in a 
concurrent capacity, and shall be under the direct supervision of the Regional 
Director. The members of the RPSU shall be taken from other division offices, if 
necessary. Personnel from the Central Office Personnel Service Division 
(COPSD) may be detailed to the RPSUs during the transition period. 
SEC. 4. Collection of Service Fees. - The DepEd, through its RPSUs, is 
authorized to collect service fees from financial institutions accredited by the 
Department under the Automatic Payroll Deduction Scheme (APDS) which shall 
be deposited with the National Treasury and recorded in its books of accounts as 
trust receipts. 
An amount equivalent to twenty percent (20%) of the total service fees 
collected may be used by the Department to augment the allocations that may be 
provided to the RPSUs for maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) 
and capital outlays. The remaining eighty percent (80%) of the total service fees 
collected shall be used exclusively for the operation of a Provident Fund that may 
,be established by the Department in favor of all its employees in accordance with 
existing rules and regulations. The said Provident Fund shall be used for lending 
operations and other purposes beneficial to all members as may be approved by 
its governing board except for the payment of additional personnel allowances. 
In the event that the MOOE and the capital outlay requirements of the 
RPSUs have been fully satisfied, the total service fees collected shall be used 
exclusively for the operation of the Provident Fund established by the 
Department. 
SEC. 5. Appropriations. - The Secretary of Education and the Regional 
Secretary of Education of the ARMM shall immediately include in their respective 
agency's programs the operationalization of the RPSUs, the initial fiOnding of 
which shall be charged against their current year's appropriations and thereafter 
in the annual General Appropriations Act. 
SEC. 6. Monitoring of Service Delivery. - The Office of the Secretary of 
the DepEd shall monitor the operation of the USUS particularly with regard to the 
quality of services to teachers and nonteaching personnel as well as the 
utilization of funds provided to the respective RPSUs. 
SEC. 7. Penal Clause. - Any person who willfully violates or cause the 
violation of any provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, he penalized with a 
fine of Twenty thousand pesos (P20,OOO.OO) and/or imprisonment of not less 
than three (3) months but not more than one (I) year or both depending upon the 
discretion of the court. 
SEC. 8. Separability Clause. - If any of the provisions or sections of this 
Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the 
other provisions or sections of this Act, in the application of such provision or 
section to other persons, shall not be affected thereby. 
SEC. 8. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days 
after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general 
circulation. 
Approved, 
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