EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez

House Bill No. 4872
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The Philippines is currently experiencing a tourism boom all over the country. This
means that more and more Filipinos are travelling all over the country which highlights the
need to have clean and free public restrooms along national roads.
These public restrooms will promote public health and sanitation. Further, with clean
public restrooms, we can eliminate a common situation where travelers will stop alongside
highways to answer the call of nature

In view of the foregoing, immediate approval of this bill is earnestly requested

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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

Rufus B. Rodriguez

4872

House Bill No.

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RESTROOMS ALONG NATIONAL
AND PROVINCIAL HIGHWAYS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, 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. This Act shall be known as the "Land Transport Support Facilities for Hygiene
and Convenience Act’.

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. — It is the policy of the State to provide public restrooms along
national and provincial highways and to develop hygienic practice among land transport
passengers.

SEC. 3. Public restrooms shall be constructed every thirty (30) to fifty (50) kilometers apart
along national and provincial highways throughout the country. These shall be erected within
a distance of at least three (3) meters from the shoulder of the highway, zoning ordinance
provision to the contrary notwithstanding

SEC. 4. The maintenance and supervision of the public restrooms shall be vested in the
council or any nongovernmental organization (NGO) of the particular barangay where it is
situated. A reasonable payment per head of passenger/user which shall be determined by
the council/NGO shalll accrue to the barangay.

SEC. 5. The collection from the use of the public restrooms shall be held in a trust fund.
Income derived from the public restrooms operation shall be used for the development
projects of the particular barangay and shall be fully covered with proper documents for
purposes of audit, and to serve as a guide for the city or municipal mayor who shall exercise
overall supervision over the utilization of such trust fund.

SEC. 6. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), in coordination with the
Department of Tourism (DOT), the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of the
Interior and Local Government (DILG), shall be mainly responsible for the production of the
standard-sized public restrooms and the programming of the implementation of this project.
It shall see to it that these public restrooms are provided with accessibility features for
disabled persons and are consistent with the provisions in Section 54 of Presidential Decree
No. 856, otherwise known as the Code of Sanitation of the Philippines.

SEC. 7. The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the
General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.

SEC. 8. All laws and parts thereof inconsistent with any provision of this Act shall be deemed
repealed or modified as the case may be.
SEC. 9. This Act shail take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in a newspaper of

general circulation
‘Approved,