REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session
3841

House Bill No.

Introduced by MAGDALO Party-List Representative
HON. MANUEL DG. CABOCHAN IIL

EXPLANATORY NOTE

In today's environment, to remain viable and stay ahead, organizations must continually scour
their operations for opportunities to improve. Executives today expect continual improvement
— real and lasting improvements that creates public satisfaction, improve public service
effectiveness and internal process efficiencies. Improvements that are realized by bottom line
results.

Achieving excellence is the result of high performance throughout the entire organization.
Leaders at all levels of an organization must relentlessly pursue the performance edge; those
actions that will propel the organization to the next level of internal and external
performance.

The state cannot legislate excellence, but can expect it, support it and acknowledge it when it
occurs. It is in this light that this bill seeks to create a process that will oversee the journey to
excellence and will encourage the most vital aspects of the Philippine government to be
managed at a world-class level.

In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought.

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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 3841

Introduced by MAGDALO Party-List Representative
HON. MANUEL DG. CABOCHAN III

AN ACT
PROMOTING GOVERNMENT AGENCY PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE

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

SECTION 1. 1) The Committee on Performance Excellence (which shall henceforth
be called 'Committee’) is established. The committee shall consist of eleven (11) members,
appointed as follows:

a) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint two (2) members of
the House of Representatives;

b) The President of the Senate shall appoint two (2) members of the Senate;

©) The President of the Philippines shall appoint four (4) employees of the
executive department; and

d) The President shall appoint three (3) public members who have demonstrated
LO experience in the practice of continuous improvement in business.

2) (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section (1)(2)(b), the term of office of each
member is four (4) years, but a member serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority.
Before the expiration of the term of a member, the appointing authority shall appoint a
successor whose term begins on July 1 next following. If there is a vacancy for any cause, the
appointing authority shall make an appointment to become immediately effective for the
unexpired term.

() If a legislative member of the committee ceases to be a legislator, the legislator's
position on the committee becomes vacant. If an executive department member of the
committee ceases to be an employee of the executive department, the member's position on
the committee becomes vacant.

3) The committee shall select one of its members as chairperson and another as vice
chairperson. The committee may determine the duties and powers of the officers, as well as
the terms of office of the officers.


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4) A majority of the members of the committee constitutes a quorum for the
transaction of business.

5) The committee shall meet at least once every calendar quarter at a place, day and
hour determined by the committee. The committee may also meet at other times and places
specified by the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members of the committee.

6) When the committee has selected a government agency (which shall henceforth be
called 'Agency’) for a performance excellence initiative, the committee may appoint as ex-
officio members of the committee the director and all other employees of the agency for the
purposes of planning and initial implementation of the initiative.

SEC. 2. The mission of the Committee on Performance Excellence is to assist
agencies in reaching performance excellence by engaging in performance excellence
initiatives with individual agencies.

1) (@) The committee shall focus on the following areas that define performance:

1) Customer and market focus

2) Human resources

3) Leadership

4) Measurement, analysis and knowledge management
5) Process management

6) Results

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(b) The committee may focus on other areas that define performance and may
give different weights to different areas described in this section, according to the
needs of the particular agency that is a partner in a particular initiative.

(©) The committee shall help agencies develop or maintain methods for reaching and
measuring performance excellence, including, but not limited to:

1) Setting long-range plans and short-term priorities;

2) Developing performance measures that indicate how well an agency's
systems are performing;

3) Working with internal and external customers to identify possible
improvements to LO the agency's systems;

4) Identifying ways to make core processes operate better, faster and at less
cost;

5) Creating mechanisms to develop the skills of all agency employees; and


6) Showing measurable results for the investment that taxpayers have made.

2) The committee shall identify those agencies and services that are most important
to Filipinos and shall develop criteria for selecting particular agencies and a
schedule for engaging in performance excellence initiatives with those agencies.
The committee may determine how many and what initiatives it can engage in at
any given time.

3) As part of any performance excellence initiative, the committee shall support
agency efforts to acquire the methods, tools and skills to achieve excellence in
each performance area. The support may include, but need not be limited to:

1) Assisting an agency in acquiring services from consultants, training
organizations, universities, business executives and other appropriate
entities.

2) Advising an agency on how to gain support for financing performance
excellence.

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Helping an agency to identify needs and obtain needed support.

4) Working with an agency to ensure nationwide training and development
programs that assist the agency in its pursuit of excellence.

5) Acting as a sounding board and advocate to help an agency remove
administrative barriers that prevent the agency from achieving
performance excellence.

SEC. 3. When the Committee on Performance Excellence has chosen an agency for
participation in a performance excellence initiative:

1) The committee, with any ex-officio members from the agency appointed as provided in
Section (1)(6) of this Act, shall develop the framework of expectations for that particular
agency, including but not limited to:

a. Performance areas to be focused on in the initiative;

b. An indication of what constitutes excellence for the agency in given performance
areas; and

c. An indication of how progress will be measured and of how much progress can
reasonably be expected in a three-year period.

2) Members of the committee shall spend time with agency employees learning about
agency operations.

3) The committee shall meet regularly, on a schedule determined by the committee, to
review the agency's progress toward excellence. Meetings shall include, but need not be


limited to, presentations by agency employees on overall progress and on progress in
specific areas of performance that have been identified.

4) The committee and the agency may use the review sessions to continuously refine
andimprove the methods used by the agency to achieve the goals of the performance
excellence initiative.

5) The committee and the agency shall work together to obtain independent third-
partyassessments of the agency's progress towards meeting the goals of the performance
excellence initiative. The purpose of the assessment is to enable the agency and the
committee to lear whether the goals and methods of the performance excellence

initiative are appropriate or how they might be changed to better help the agency achieve

excellence.

6) The committee shall make periodic public reports on achievement of performance
excellence. The reports shall be in a form and manner determined by the committee and
may include, but need not be limited to, press releases. The reports shall be delivered to
the Congress and made available to the general public.

SEC. 4. The Commission on Audit (COA) shall provide administrative support to the
Committee on Performance Excellence. The COA may obtain assistance from the Civil
Service Commission (CSC) or any other agency necessary to fully support the activities of
the committee.

SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the term of office specified by Section 1 of this Act, of the
members first appointed to the Committee on Performance Excellence:

1) One executive department member and one public member shall each serve for a term
ending July 1, 2015.

2) One House member, one Senate member and one executive department member shall
each serve for a term ending July 1, 2016.

3) One executive department member and one public member shall each serve for a term
ending July 1, 2016.

4) One House member, one Senate member, one executive department member and one
public member shall each serve for a term ending July 1, 2017.

SEC. 6. Any laws, decrees, ordinances or rules and regulations which are inconsistent
with or contrary to the provision of this Act is hereby amended or repealed.

SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete publication in at
least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,