Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ______________ 
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Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE ANTONIO “TONYPET” T. ALBANO, 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The San Pedro-San Juan-Lullutan Provincial Road is a 30-kilometer road 
network which connects the Santiago-Tuguegarao National Road and the Ilagan-
Delfin Albano National Road. The whole stretch spans the economically emerging 
municipality of Roxas, Isabela through Barangay San Juan, Quirino and ending up to 
the provincial center of Ilagan City. It is a continuous seamless stretch which links 
western Isabela to the conomic and civic centers of the province. Through this 
thoroughfare, the agricultural and commercial products, along with the labor and skills 
markers of the municipalities of Roxas and Quirino, and Ilagan City are exchanged 
and traded for their common benefit. 
As it is now, the 30-kilometer San Pedro-San Juan-Lullutan Provincial Road, 
is in a state of constant disrepair as it is dependent on the meager resources of the 
Province for its continuous rehabilitation and maintenance. While it may be the 
closest and fastest link of the Municipalities of Roxas and Quirino City, the limited 
resources of the provincial government hindered it from properly and sufficiently 
allocating every year what this road network actually needs. 
The urgent need for the reclassification of the road’s category is merited by 
the growing needs of the communities connected by this stretch. The linked 
municipalities are emerging communities and dynamic economic hubs which must 
be interlinked with the provincial center in the most efficient of ways. The conversion 
to the national road of the San Pedro-San Juan-Lullutan Provincial road will most 
certainly improve the exchange of agricultural and commercial goods and the trade 
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of services in the province. If the San Pedro-Lullutan Provincial Road is finally 
converted to national road, it will be well maintained and regularly paved affording 
the motorists and the traders fast and efficient thoroughfare to move goods and 
services from the Municipality of Roxas to Ilagan City and beyond.  
The conversion of San Pedro-Lullutan Provincial road to a national road will 
definitely enhance access to government, civic and commercial establishment as a 
well-maintained road network will bring hospitals, churches academic institutions and 
commercial establishments even closer to the people in need. 
As the provincial government of Isabela has budget constraints to provide the 
San Pedro-Lullutan Provincial road the same level of periodic  repairs and 
maintenance of a national road, it has become imperative that this critical road 
network be now classified a national road. If it will be so, its conversion to a national 
road will also result to substantial savings in the current budget of the provincial 
government which it can now devote to more pressing poverty alleviation projects 
and other local government programs. 
Hence, the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly requested. 
 REP. ANTONIO “TONYPET” T. ALBANO


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ______________ 
_________________________________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE ANTONIO “TONYPET” T. ALBANO 
AN ACT 
CONVERTING THE PROVINCIAL ROAD STRETCHING FROM BARANGAY SAN 
PEDRO, MUNCIPALITY OF ROXAS-BARANGAY SAN JUAN, MUNICIPALITY 
OF QUIRINO-BARANGAY LULLUTAN, CITY OF ILAGAN, ALL IN THE 
PROVINCE OF ISABELA INTO A NATIONAL ROAD, AND APPROPRIATING 
FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. The road stretching from Barangay San Pedro, Roxas to 
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Barangay San Juan, Quirino to Brgy. Lullutan, City of Ilagan, all in the Province of 
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Isabela connecting the Municipalities of Roxas and Quirino to City of Ilagan, Isabela 
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is hereby converted into a national road. 
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SECTION 2. The Secretary of Public Works and Highways shall include in the 
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Department’s program the improvement, repair and maintenance of the said road, 
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the funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. 
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SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in 
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the Official Gazette or in the least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
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Approved, 
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