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First Regular Session 
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SENATE
S.B. No. 1375
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Introduced by SEN. WIN GATCHALIAN
AN ACT
CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY, CITY, PROVINCIAL AND NATIONAL 
FEDERATIONS OF SANGGUNIAN BARANGAY MEMBERS, AMENDING FOR 
THIS PURPOSE SECTION 508 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7160, OTHERWISE 
KNOWN AS THE "LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991"
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Section 508 (a) of the Local Government Code (LGC) of 1991 already allows 
for the creation of a league or federation for Sanggunian Barangay members, the 
legislative body of the barangays. However, the LGC of 1991 is wanting of provisions 
that set the legal framework in the creation of federations of sanggunian barangay 
members in the municipal or city, provincial and national levels.
Thus, there is a need to legislatively create the National, Provincial, City and 
Municipal Federations of Sanggunian Barangay Members through an amendment of 
the LGC of 1991. The different LGU-level Federations, to be eventually conglomerated 
as the National Federation of Sanggunian Barangay Members, will be in the forefront 
of championing the multitudinous interests of the 294,322 Sanggunian Barangay 
members duly elected by the constituents of the 42,046 barangays of the country.


The institutionalization process is as follows: the barangay members of all the 
barangays in a particular city or municipality will elect among themselves their 
President, Officers and Board of Directors to create the City or Municipal Federation. 
The elected Presidents of the Municipal or City Federations will then form the 
Provincial Federation, and likewise elect among themselves their President, Officers 
and Board of Directors. Thereafter, the Presidents of all the Provincial Federations 
will now convene and elect among themselves the President, Officers and Board of 
Directors of the National Federation of Sanggunian Barangay Members.
This organizational framework is the best mechanism to achieve genuine 
representation of the hundreds of thousands of Sanggunian Barangay members 
throughout the archipelago.
Moreover, to maximize the efficiency and effectivity of the National Federation 
of Sanggunian Barangay Members with regard to its relations with other local 
government units' aggrupation, this Bill mandates it to be a member league of the 
Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) to be represented by its President.
With all these considerations, support for the passage is'earnfestly sought.
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NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session
SENATE
S. B. No. 1 315
72 OCT 10 P3«3
RECE!\/EDBY.
Introduced by SEN. WIN GATCHALIAN
AN ACT
CREATING THE MUNICIPALITY, CITY, PROVINCIAL AND NATIONAL 
FEDERATIONS OF SANGGUNIAN BARANGAY MEMBERS, AMENDING 
FOR THIS PURPOSE SECTION 508 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7160, 
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991"
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines 
in Congress assembled:
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SECTION 1. Section 508 of Republic Act No. 7160 or the "Local
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Government Code of 1991," is hereby amended to include subsection (c), to
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read as follows:
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(C) SANGGUNIAN BARANGAY MEMBERS SHALL
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FORM A CITY OR MUNICIPALITY FEDERATION
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AND ELECT A BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND A SET
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OF OFFICERS HEADED BY A PRESIDENT. THE
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DULY ELECTED PRESIDENTS OF THE CITY OR
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MUNICIPAL 
FEDERATION OF 
SANGGUNIAN
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BARANGAY MEMBERS SHALL ELECT AMONG
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THEMSELVES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND A SET
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OF OFFICERS HEADED BY A PRESIDENT OF THE
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PROVINCIAL FEDERATION OF 
SANGGUNIAN
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PROVINCIAL FEDERATION OF SANGGUNIAN 
BARANGAY MEMBERS SHALL THEREAFTER ELECT 
A BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND A SET OF OFFICERS 
HEADED BY A PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL 
FEDERATION OF SANGGUNIAN BARANGAY 
MEMBERS. THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF 
SANGGUNIAN BARANGAY MEMBERS, 
REPRESENTED BY ITS NATIONAL PRESIDENT,
SHALL BE PART OF THE UNION OF LOCAL 
AUTHORITIES OF THE PHILIPPINES (ULAP).
SEC. 2. Implementing Rules and Regulations. -The DILG, in consultation 
with the ULAP, and other concerned agencies and stakeholders, shall 
promulgate the implementing rules and regulations of this Act within ninety 
(90) days from effectivity of this Act.
SEC. 3. Separability Clause. - If any provision of this Act is declared 
invalid or unconstitutional, the provisions not affected thereby shall remain in 
full force and effect.
SEC. 4. Repealing Clause. - All laws, presidential decrees, executive 
orders, presidential proclamations, rules and regulations or parts thereof 
contrary to or inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or modified 
accordingly.
SEC. 5. 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,