Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

First Regular Session
FIFTEENTH CONGRESS

3191

HOUSE BILL No.

Introduced by: REPRESENTATIVE IMELDA CALIXTO-RUBIANO.

Explanatory Note

This proposed measure seeks to provide retirement benefits to all
barangay officials who have served three terms of continuous service in good
standing. Currently, these barangay officials have no retirement benefits
unlike the rest of the other elected local government officials

It is to be noted that our barangay officials are the frontlines of public
service in our community. Their duties and responsibilities to the people and
to the community as a whole are indispensable for a clean, peaceful,
productive and orderly delivery of services and dispensation of justice. Being
dedicated community organizers and respectable public servants, it is of
paramount consideration that these barangay officials be accorded retirement
benefits enjoyed by other government officials and employees in the national
government as well as in the local government units.

Many of these officials dedicate their lives to the barangay for a measly
pay and yet they get nothing upon exhausting their effective years in life. It is
in this light that the measure is being proposed to provide them such
retirement benefits to ensure that they are being recompensed and rewarded
for their hard work and dedication in public service.

The approval of this measure is being sought for.

Pe

IMELDA CALIXTO-RUBIANO
Representative
Lone District of Pasay City


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS,
First Regular Session

3131

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE IMELDA CALIXTO-RUBIANO

AN ACT
GRANTING RETIREMENT BENEFITS TO ALL BARANGAY OFFICIALS
WHO HAVE RENDERED AT LEAST 3 (three) TERMS OF CONTINUOUS
SERVICE AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Barangay
Official’s Retirement Benefits Act’.

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared the policy of the
State to grant retirement benefits to barangay officials who have served for at
least three (3) terms of continuous service of good standing in the community.

SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. - For the purpose of this Act, the
following terms shall mean:

Barangay Officials - refer to the punong barangay, members of the
sangguniang barangay, the sangguniang kabataan chairman and the
sangguniang kabataan members,

Retirement Benefit — refers to the retirement pay or gratuity pay
equivalent to one and a half (1 1/2) month of his/her last known honorarium
for every year of continuous rendered service as a barangay official of a local
government concerned.

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Barangay Retirement Fund ~ refers to the fund where each barangay
shall appropriate in it's annual budget no less than five (5%) percent of it's
annual internal revenue allotment for the retirement of barangay officials
Provided, That such Retirement Fund shall be given funding priority by the
Department of Budget and Management.

SEC. 4. Entitlement. - All barangay officials who have rendered three
(3) terms of continuous service as an elected official shall be entitled to lump
‘sum retirement benefits equivalent to one and a half (1 1/2) month of his/her
last known honorarium for every year of service to the barangay concerned,
which shall be taken from the Barangay Retirement Fund herein provided for
the purpose

SEC. 5. Governing Policies. — The exercise of this mandate must be
based on the Constitution, Civil Service Law, Local Government Code of
1991, orders and other allied laws.

SEC. 6, Limitation. - The right to avail of this retirement benefits shall
not be given to those barangay officials who were convicted of a crime or
have pending criminal or administrative cases filed against them

SEC. 7. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Secretary of
the Department of Interior and Local Government in coordination with the
local government units concerned shall issue the necessary rules and
regulations to implement this Act

SEC. 8. Separability Clause. - If any part or provision of this Act shall
be held unconstitutional or invalid, other provisions, which are not affected
thereby, shall continue to be in full force and effect,

SEC. 9. Repealing Clause. - All laws, presidential decrees, executive
orders, rules and regulations or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SEC. 10. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after
it's publication in at least (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,