Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4249

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to provide a “hazard pay” to teachers assigned to “conflict
areas” and to provide measures to ensure their safety and welfare while on
assignment to said areas.

The provision of education is a duty of the State and in warring or
insurgency-infested areas, otherwise referred to herein as “conflict areas”, the
agents of the State are the teachers who are assigned to said areas to perform
their job in educating the youth in said areas.

In going to and fro said areas to do their job, teachers are exposed to
hardships which are not experienced by their peers assigned in other areas.
Hence, there is the necessity to compensate them for the extra trouble and
hardship they have to go through just to do their job.

Ultimately, the extra privileges and support which will be given by this
Act to the teachers gned to conflict areas will motivate them to perform
their jobs the best they can, This will eventually redound to the benefit of the

community they serve.
TTY, hive oh RO, JR.
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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4243

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
GRANTING HAZARD PAY TO TEACHERS ASSIGNED IN CONFLICT
AREAS AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MEASURES FOR THEIR
PROTECTION

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

SECTION 1.Short Title. This Act shall be known as the “Hazard Allowance for
Teachers in Conflict Areas Act of 2016.”

SEC, 2. a) All teachers assigned to conflict areas shall be entitled to an
additional monthly hazard allowance equivalent to triple the total expenses that
said teacher will incur every month in public transportation in going back and
forth his residence and his place of work

SEC. 4. In the event, teachers assigned to conflict areas would need to stay ina
temporary house in the locality where they are teaching, the Barangay Captain
of the locality where the said teacher will be teacher is hereby mandated to
secure a suitable and safe housing for said teachers. In that case, the hardship
allowance shall consist of the total monthly cost of the lodging expenses of the
teacher plus the amount set forth in the preceding section.


Sec. 4.The Department of Education (DepEd), in collaboration with the
Department of Interior and Local Government, shall issue the implementing
rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. The funds neccessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its enactment
into law and thereafter.

SEC, 6. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or
amended accordingly.

7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.