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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 2883

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill aims to declare the conferment of a doctorate degree as
equivalent to entry level Career Executive Service Officer (CESO)
eligibility in the Civil Service

Section 3, B, Article IX of the 1987 Constitution provides:

“The Civil Service Commission, as the central
personnel agency of the Government, shall
establish a career service and adopt measures to
promote morale, efficiency, integrity,
responsiveness, progressiveness, and courtesy in
the civil service. It shall strengthen the merit and
reward system, integrate all human resources
development programs for all levels and ranks, and
institutionalize a management climate conducive to
public accountability...”

It envisions that appointments in the civil service be made only
according to merit and fitness to be determined by competitive
examination, except those positions which are policy determining,
primarily confidential or highly technical


Pursuant to this, the Commission regularly conducts professional
and sub-professional examinations all over the country. With regard to
executive positions in the civil service, appointments and promotions
thereto require CESO eligibility.

By virtue of Republic Act No. 1080, the bar examinations and the
examinations given by the various boards of examiners of the
Government are declared as civil service examinations. Hence, those
who passed these examinations may be appointed into the civil service
without the necessity of passing the civil service examinations, except
those positions requiring highly specialized knowledge not covered by
the ordinary board examinations.

This Bill aims to grant the same, if not a more fitting privilege to
holders of doctorate degrees recognizing their educational competence
and fitness for appointment or promotion to executive positions in the
civil service by reason of their having completed post-graduate studies
which is equivalent to, if not more than passing the bar or board
examinations. This is to grant them, many of whom are academicians,
the equal opportunity with CESO holders in terms of growth and career
advancement in the civil service.

The foregoing premises considered, the immediate passage of this
Bill is earnestly sought.

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LUIS RAYMUND “L
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” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.
amarines Sur


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Queson City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No, 2883

AN ACT DELARING THE CONFERMENT OF A DOCTORATE
DEGREE AS EQUIVALENT TO ENTRY LEVEL CAREER EXECUTIVE
SERVICE OFFICER ELIGIBILITY IN THE CIVIL SERVICE

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

SECTION 1. The conferment of a doctorate degree by an
institution of higher learning duly accredited by the Commission on
Higher Education is hereby declared as equivalent to entry level Career
Executive Service Officer (CESO) eligibility in the civil service for
purposes of appointment to executive positions in the classified service
in the Government or any of its branches, subdivisions, instrumentalities
and agencies including government-owned or controlled corporations
with original charters, except with regard to positions requiring highly
specialized knowledge not covered by the doctorate degree of the
holder.

SECTION 2. The registrars of other responsible officers of duly
accredited colleges and universities offering doctorate degrees shall
regularly furnish the Civil Service Commission with a list of graduates of
their respective colleges or universities who have been conferred with
doctorate degrees within sixty (60) days from conferment.

SECTION 3. Eligibility shall commence on the date of conferment.
Provided, that for those who have already been conferred doctorate
degrees prior to the passage of this Act, their eligibility shall be deemed
to commence from the approval hereof.


SECTION 4. The Civil Service Commission shall promulgate the
rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 5. The Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the
completion of its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of
general circulation.

Approved,