FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
There is an increasing public concern on the failure of the civil service to cope with 
technological strides, particularly in computerization of government offices. The lag is not only 
due to the lack of computers, but also in the absence or lack of personnel technically proficient to 
operate computers, or both. 
This bill seeks to place our civil service at par with the private sector in the use of 
computer technology. All clerical, technical, supervisory, and even executive officers and 
employees of the government, who are professional or non-professional civil service eligibles, 
will be required to undergo basic training in computer and technology.* 
* This bill was originally filed during the Thirteenth Congress, First Regular Session. 


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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC) 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
S.B.No. 1294 
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Introduced by Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago 
AN ACT 
REQUIRING COMPUTER EDUCATION AND 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE 
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 cited as the “Computer Education and 
Training of Government Employees Act.” 
SECTION 2. Mandatory Computer Education. - All employees of the government in all 
branches, subdivisions, instrumentalities, and agencies thereof, who are professional or non- 
professional civil service eligibles or their equivalent, holding clerical, technical, supervisory, 
and executive positions, of all ranks and levels, are required to undergo a training program in 
basic computer science and technology. Employees of the government who are employed on a 
casual or contractual basis and those holding maintenance or janitorial positions are excluded 
from the requirements of this Act. 
SECTION 3. Program to be Developed by the Civil Service Commission. - The Civil 
Service Commission is mandated to develop a program providing the training required under the 
preceding section, which program shall be undertalcen by the employee during office hours and 
shall be credited as part of the hours worked by the employee in the performance of his duties 
and functions. 
SECTION 4. Computer Proficient Employees Exempted from the Provisions ofthis Act. - 
The Civil Service Commission shall include in the program under the preceding section a 
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method whereby an officer or employee already proficient in conlputer science and technology 
may be exempted from the basic computer training in this Act. 
SECTION 5. Provision for Implementation of this Act. - The amount of One Hundred 
Million Pesos (PlOO,OOO,OOO.OO), to be included in the national budget for the incoming fiscal 
year, shall be applied to implement the provisions of this Act. 
Appropriations for the 
implementation of this Act for the succeeding years shall be automatically included in the annual 
General Appropriations Act. 
SECTION 6. Sepnvability Clause. - If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or 
unconstitutional, the remainder of the law of the provision not otherwise affected shall remain 
valid and subsisting. 
SECTION 7. 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 this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly. 
SECTION 8. Eflectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
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Approved, 
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