THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC ) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
1 
'04 
OCT 26 P4 114 
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4 
First Regular Session 
1 
Introduced by Senator Lacson 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill aims to declare the conferment of a doctorate degree equivalent to entry level 
Career Executive Service Officer eligibility in the civil service. 
Section 3, B, Article IX of the 1987 Constitution provides: 
"The Civil Service Commission, as the central personnel agency of the 
Government, shall establish a career service and adopt measures to promote 
morale, efficiency, integrity, responsiveness, progressiveness, and courtesy in the 
civil service. It shall strengthen the merit and reward system, integrate all human 
resources development programs for all levels and ranks, and institutionalize a 
management climate conducive to public accountabili ty..." 
It envisions that appointments in the civil service be made only according to merit and 
fitness to be determined by competitive examination, except those positions which are policy- 
determining, primarily confidential or highly technical. 
Pursuant to this, the Commission regularly conducts professional and sub-professional 
With regard to executive positions in the civil service, 
examinations all over the country. 
appointments and promotions thereto require a Career Executive Service Officer eligibility. 
By virtue of Republic Act No. 1080, the bar examinations and the examinations given by 
the various boards of examiners of the Government are declared as civil service examinations. 
Hence, those who passed these examinations may be appointed into the civil service without the 
necessity of passing the civil service examinations, except those positions requiring highly 
specialized knowledge not covered by the ordinary board examinations, 


This bill aims to grant the same if not a more fitting privilege to holders of doctorate 
degrees recognizing their educational competence and fitness for appointment or promotion to 
executive positions in the civil service by reason of their having completed post graduate studies 
which is equivalent, if not more than passing the bar or board examinations. This is to grant 
them, many of whom are academicians, the equal opportunity with CESO holders in terms of 
growth and career advancement in the civil service. 
P 
PA 
ACSON 


THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC ) 
1 
'04 OCT 26 P4:lSi 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
1 
A 
G- 
SENATE 
SBNo. 
1832 
AN ACT DECLARING THE CONFERMENT OF A DOCTORATE DEGREE AS 
EQUIVALENT TO ENTRY LEVEL CAREER EXECUTIVE SERVICE OFFICER 
ELIGIBILITY IN THE CIVIL SERVICE 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress Assembled 
SECTION 1. The conferment of a doctorate degree by an institution o€ higher learning 
duly accredited by the Commission on Higher Education is hereby declared as equivalent to 
entry level Career Executive Service Eligibility (CESO) eligibility in the civil service for 
purposes of appointment to executive positions in the classified service in the Government or any 
of its branches, subdivisions, instrumentalities and agencies including government-owned or 
controlled corporations with original charters, except with regard to positions requiring highly 
specialized knowledge not covered by the doctorate degree of the holder. 
SECTION 2. The registrars or other responsible officers of duly accredited colleges and 
universities offering doctorate degrees shall regularly furnish the Civil Service Commission with 
a list of graduates of their respective colleges or universities who have been conferred with 
doctorate degrees within sixty days from conferment. 
SECTION 3. Eligibility shall commence on the date of conferment. Provided, that for 
those who have already been conferred doctorate degrees prior to the passage of this Act, their 
eligibility shall be deemed to commence from the approval hereof. 
SECTION 4. The Civil Service Commission shall promulgate the rules and regulations 
to implement the provisions of this Act. 
SECTION 5. This Act shall tale effect fifteen (15) days after the completion of its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.. 
Approved.