EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez

House Bill No. 4879
EXPLANATORY NOTE

Under Section 61 of Republic Act 6975, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology
(BJMP) shall exercise supervision and contro! over all city and municipal jails while the
Provincial jails shall be supervised and controlled by the provincial goverment within its
jurisdiction,

This set-up can cause confusion and makes it difficult to have an integrated approach to jail
management. The BJMP will have to coordinate with each and every province in the country
which may still result in different approaches for each provincial jail

Further, by transferring control and supervision of all jails in the country to the BUMP, there
will only be 1 penal system and there will be a lesser chance that officials heading each jail
will be subject to controls of political influence. There will also be uniformity in the training of
Jail personnel; livelihood projects; and educational and vocational trainings. This will also
result in a more secure penal system which is professional and has uniformity in the
implementation of plans and programs

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

MZ
RUFDS'B. roorughéz


EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez

House Bill No. 4879

AN ACT
PLACING THE PROVINCIAL, SUB-PROVINCIAL AND DISTRICT JAILS UNDER THE
JURISDICTION OF THE BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT AND PENOLOGY (BUMP),
AMENDING SECTIONS 61. 82 AND 63 OF PEPHENIC ART ANIME arvt anKe
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE "DEPARTMENT OF
INTERIOR AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT OF 1990" AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

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

SECTION 1. Section 61 of Republic Act No. 6975 is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 61. Powers and Functions. — The Jail Bureau shall
exercise supervision and contro! over all PROVINCIAL, SUB-
PROVINCIAL, DISTRICT, city and municipal jails. [The provincial
jails shall _be supervised and controlled by the provincial
government within its jurisdiction, whose expenses shall be
subsidized by the National Government for not more than three (3)
years after the effectivity of this Act. JAILS DO NOT INCLUDE
DETENTION CENTERS AND LOCK-UP CELLS BEING
MAINTAINED BY THE ARMED FORCES OF THE PHILIPPINES
(AFP), PHILIPPINE NATIONAL POLICE (PNP), NATIONAL.
BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (NBI) AND THE BUREAU OF
IMMIGRATION (BI).

SECTION 2. Section 62 of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows

Section 62. Organization. — The Jail Bureau shall be headed by a
Chief who shall be assisted by [a deputy chief] OTHER
OFFICERS ENUMERATED IN SECTION 3 OF REPUBLIC ACT
9263 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “BUREAU OF FIRE
PROTECTION AND BUREAU OF JAIL MANAGEMENT AND
PENOLOGY PROFESSIONALIZATION ACT OF 2004”.

The Jail Bureau shall composed of PROVINCIAL, SUB-
PROVINCIAL, DISTRICT, city and municipal jails, [each headed
by a city or municipal jail warden]: Provided, That, in the case of
large cities and municipalities, a district jail with subordinate jails
headed by a district jail warden may be established as necessary

The Chief of the Jail Bureau shall recommended to the Secretary
the organizational structure and staffing pattern of the Bureau as
well as the disciplinary machinery for officers and men of the
Bureau in accordance with the guidelines set forth herein and as
prescribed in Section 85 of this Act.


SECTION 3. Section 63 of the same Act is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 63. Establishment of PROVINCIAL, SUB-PROVINCIAL,
District, City or Municipal Jail. - There shall be established and
maintained in every PROVINCE, district, city and municipality a
secured, clean adequately equipped and sanitary jail for the
custody and safekeeping of PROVINCIAL, city and municipal
prisoners, any fugitive from justice, or person detained awaiting
investigation or trial and/or transfer to the national penitentiary,

safety of others, duly certified as such by the proper medical or
health officer, pending the transfer to a medical institution

The PROVINCIAL, SUB-PROVINCIAL, DISTRICT, municipal or
city jail service shall preferably be headed by a graduate of a four
(4) year course in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, nursing,
social work, [or] criminology OR A LAW GRADUATE who shall
assist in the immediate rehabilitation of individuals or detention of
Prisoners. Great care must be exercised so that the human rights
of [this] THESE prisoners are respected and protected, and their
spiritual and physical well-being are properly and’ promptly
attended to.

SECTION 4. Provincial Jail Administrator, Sub-Provincial Jail Administrator. — The heads of
the provincial and sub-provincial jails within the province shall have the rank of
Superintendent. The provincial jail administrator shall exercise supervisory control over the
Provincial, district, city and municipality jail in their respective provinces.

SEL HUIN 9, Auinority of the Chiet, Bureau of Jail Management and Penoloay to Reoraanize
Provincial Jails. — The Chief, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology has the authority to

exercise of this power, the services of the

Permanent appointment shall not be terminated,

and holding a

SECTION 6. Special Oversight Committee. — A Special Oversight Committee is hereby
created, composed of the Secretary of the Department of the Interior and Local Govemment
as Chairman, the Secretary of the Department of Budget and Management as Co-Chairman,
and the Chief of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, the Chairman of the
Commission on Audit and the President of League of Provinces as members, which shall
plan and oversee the expeditious implementation of the transfer and absorption into the
Bureau of the property, appropriations and installations of the provincial and sub-provincial
jails, subject to just compensation under appropriate terms and conditions

SECTION 7. Appropriations. — The existing appropriation for the operation and
maintenance of provincial jails shall, for the first of fraction therefore after enactment into law
of this Act, continue to be so appropriated for the purpose. Thereafter the amount of two
hundred fifty million (Php 250,000,000.00) for the operation and maintenance of the
Provincial and sub-provincial jails by the BJMP shall be included in the annual General
Appropriations Act.

SECTION 8, Senerability Close — it = :
Or invalid, the other provisions not otherwise affected shail remain in full force effect


SECTION 9. Repealing Clause. - All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders,
ordinances, rules and regulations, and other issuances or parts thereof which are
inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed or modified accordinaly.

SECTION 19 Fe
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