HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quejon City, Metro Manila

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

C
HOUSE BILL NO. 1180

Introduced by:
REP. FRANCISCO T. MATUGAS
15' District, Surigao del Norte (Siargao Island)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill which was filed in the House of Representatives of the 14™
Congress and now re-filed in tofo in the present Congress, seeks to
amend Republic Act No. 8291, otherwise known as the “the GSIS Act of
1997", in order to accord proportionate representation in its Board of
Trustees from among its stakeholders.

It has been observed that the present composition of the GSIS of
Trustees under R.A. No. 8291 provides for nine (9) members to be
appointed by the President of the Philippines, “one (1) of whom shall
be either the President of the Philippine Public School Teachers
Association (PPSTA or the President of the Philippine Association of
School Superintendents (PASS);”

Cognizant of the fact that the public school teachers and the
non-teaching personnel in the Department of Education constitute a
big portion of the total number of public employees in the government
bureaucracy of about 1.4 Million, there is an imperative need that a
proportionate number of representatives of at least five (5) should
come from this special sector of government employees particularly
those under the Department of Education in whose hands and
tutelage the education of the almost 20 Million school children and
youth of this country have been entrusted.

It is also of public knowledge that many of our hard working
public school teachers have experienced some problems with their
membership with the GSIS ranging from erroneous grant of benefits,
salary/housing loan applications, retirement computations, and many
others, giving the wide impression that the rights and privileges of
members who are school personnel are not properly safeguarded and
promoted because of inadequate representation in the GSIS
governing board of trustees.


Suffice it to mention that the present educational system and the
constitutional system and the constitutional thrust of the 1987 Philippine
Constitution under its Article XIV mandate, inter alia, that “The State
shall enhance the fight of teachers to professional advancement. Non-
teaching academic and non-academic personnel shall enjoy the
protection of the State". It also added that “The State shall assign the
highest budgetary priority to education and ensure that teaching will
attract and retain its rightful share of the best available talents through
adequate renumeration and other means of job satisfaction and
fulfillment.”

It is therefore along this vein and the primordial intention of this
bill to provide muscular voice and proportionate representation to the
special sector of government employees who are the teachers and
moulders of our youth with the governing board of trustees of the
Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) by amending the present
charter under R.A. No. 8291 to increase the number of trustees from
nine (9) into thirteen (13) and conferring five (5) slots to public school
Personnel in the Department of Education.

Hence, early passage of this bill is earnestly sought.

FRANC) T.MATUGAS


Republic of the Philippines

BHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Queson City, Metro Manila

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

C
HOUSE BILL NO. 1189

Introduced by:
REP. FRANCISCO T. MATUGAS
15' District, Surigao del Norte (Siargao Island)

AN ACT
AMENDING SECTION 42 OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8291, OTHERWISE KNOWN
AS ‘THE GSIS ACT OF 1997’, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

Section 1. Section 42 of R.A. No. 8291 (GSIS Act of 1997) shall be
amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 42. The Board of Trustees; Its Composition; Tenure and
Compensation.- The corporate powers and functions of the GSIS
shall be vested in and exercised by the Board of Trustees
composed of the President and General Manager of the GSIS
and TWELVE (12) other members to be appointed by the
President of the Philippines, FIVE (5) OF WHOM SHALL COME
FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS PERSONNEL IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION REPRESENTING THE ASSOCIATION OF _DEPED.
DIRECTORS (ADD), PHILIPPINE PUBLIC _SCHOOL _ TEACHERS
ASSOCIATION _(PPST, PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDENTS (PASS), NATIONAL EMPLOYEES UNION (NEU)
AND THE ASSOCIATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS IN THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (AOADE another two (2) shall
represent fhe leading organizations or associations of
government employees/retirees, another four (4) from the
banking, finance, investment and insurance sectors, and one (1)
recognized member of legal profession who at the time of
appointment is also a member of the GSIS. The Trustees shall
select from among themselves a Chairman while the President
and General Manager Shall automatically be the Vice-
Chairman.”



Section 2. Repealing Clause. All laws, presidential decrees,
executive orders presidential proclamations, issuances, rules and
regulations or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or amended
accordingly.

Section 3. Separability Clause. If any provision of this Act is
declared unconstitutional, the same shall not effect the validity
and effectivity of the other provisions hereof.

Section 4. Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval and publication in at least two (2) newspapers of
general circulation.

Approved.