FIFTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
FIRST REGULAR SESSION )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr.

House Bill No. 3486

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is a social development
and poverty reduction strategy that provides cash grants to poor households to
improve their health, nutrition, and education, particularly of children zero to 14
years. 4Ps is the flagship program of the Department of Social Welfare and
Development (DWSD) on poverty reduction. It is a social development program
that invests in human capital through the provision of conditional cash grants to
poor households. Through 4Ps, it is hoped that health and nutrition of pregnant
women and children aged zero to 14 years old will be improved through their
availment of preventive health check-ups, vaccines and immunizations. 4Ps also
aims to increase the enrollment and attendance rate of children aged 3-14 years
old, The 4P grants a family with a maximum of three children in school a P1,400
monthly subsidy or P15,000 annually At present, 4Ps covers one million poor
households in 17 regions in the country.

In order to be qualified to be a beneficiary of the 4Ps, certain conditions
must be complied with. These conditions were imposed by the DSWD. This bill,
therefore, seeks to strengthen these conditions and provide for additional
conditions to be complied with before families can benefit from the 4Ps.

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

RUFYS B. RODRIGUEZ

MAXIMO B. RODRIGUEZ, JR.


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES. )
FIRST REGULAR SESSION )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr.

House Bill No., 3486

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE CONDITIONS TO BE COMPLIED WITH BY
BENEFICIARIES OF THE PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM

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

SECTION 1. Declaration of Policy. It is the policy of the State to promote a just
and dynamic social order that will ensure the prosperity and independence of the
nation and free the people from poverty through policies that provide adequate
social services, promote full employment, a rising standard of living, and an
improved quality of life for all.

SEC. 2. The following conditions must be complied with before a family may be
entitled to become beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of
the Department of Social Welfare and Development:

* Children up to five years old must get regular health check-ups and
vaccinations;

* Children aged three to five years old must attend day-care center/pre-
school at least 85 percent of the time;

* Children aged six to 14 years old must attend school at least 85 percent of
the time;

* Children aged six to 14 years old must undergo deworming sessions
every six months;

* Parents must attend natural family planning sessions and pregnant
women must get pre- and post-natal care and be attended to during
childbirth by a skilled or trained birth attendant;

* Families must maintain cleanliness in their surroundings and not
throw/dispose of their garbage in their backyards and front yards;

* Families must not throw their garbage in sewers, rivers, creeks and other
bodies of water;


* Families must plants trees in their surroundings; and
* Families must assist, help or volunteer in bayanihan works in their
barangays.

SEC. 3. Separability Clause. — If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provisions not otherwise affected
shall remain valid and subsisting,

SEC. 4. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance,
executive order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation
contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of the Act is hereby repealed,
modified, or amended accordingly.

SEC. 5. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,