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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Batasan Hills, Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL No. _____ 
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Introduced by  
ACT Teachers Party-List Rep. FRANCE L. CASTRO,  
GABRIELA Women’s Party Rep. ARLENE D. BROSAS,  
and KABATAAN Party-List Rep. RAOUL DANNIEL A. MANUEL 
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AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR A UNIFORM OR CLOTHING ALLOWANCE 
FOR CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES IN THE NATIONAL  GOVERNMENT 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
For most employees in the civilian sector, the uniforms they are required to wear 
daily to work are both boon and bane.  Uniforms give them a professional air about 
them, and can be taken as symbols of their official authority and status.   A public school 
teacher, for example, is called the honorrific “ma’am” or “sir” even outside the school, 
even by strangers, recognized as the revered “pangalawang magulang.”  Uniforms help 
government employees identify with each other as colleagues in the workplace, as 
comrades in public service.  
However, the outward benefits given by uniforms are heavily offset by the holes 
driven into the pockets of underpaid civil servants, since uniforms, “pasadya” services, 
and other expenses necessary to comply with the required attire have become too 
expensive for them. 
Legislated increases via the annual Appropriations Acts are too slow to catch up 
with the rise of the prices of textiles, sewing and tailoring services, and ready-to-wear 
uniforms or clothes.  For instance, it took six long years before the ₱5,000 Uniform or 
Clothing Allowance (last adjusted in 2012) was increased to ₱6,000 in 2018.  It was a 
significantly measly adjustment, considering that the last increase in 2012, from ₱4,000 in 
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2011, was a 25% raise for the past one year.  In 2018, it was only a 25% raise for six years. 
At present, the UCA is still nailed at ₱6,000, even after repeated spikes in inflation in the 
past four years. 
This bill therefore seeks to grant a ₱10,000 Uniform or Clothing Allowance for 
all civilian employees in national government agencies and instrumentalities, with a 
mandatory periodic review for increases. 
Also included is a mandate for the Department of Budget and Management to 
coordinate with the Department of Science and Technology and the Department of 
Trade and Industry to ensure that agency employers use Philippine fibers and 
Philippine-made fabrics, pursuant to an old law largely unimplemented, Republic Act 
9242 or the Philippine Tropical Fabrics Law.  This mandated preference for the local 
textile industry and local clothes-makers is designed to give them a much-needed 
momentum especially during these times when micro, small, and medium enterprises 
are struggling to get back on their feet. 
For these reasons, immediate approval of this bill is sought. 
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Rep. FRANCE L. CASTRO 
ACT Teachers Party-List 
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Rep. ARLENE D. BROSAS 
GABRIELA Women’s Party 
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Rep. RAOUL DANNIEL A. MANUEL 
KABATAAN Party-List 


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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Batasan Hills, Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL No. _____ 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Introduced by  
ACT Teachers Party-List Rep. FRANCE L. CASTRO,  
GABRIELA Women’s Party Rep. ARLENE D. BROSAS,  
and KABATAAN Party-List Rep. RAOUL DANNIEL A. MANUEL 
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AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR A UNIFORM OR CLOTHING ALLOWANCE 
FOR CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES IN THE NATIONAL  GOVERNMENT 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1.  Title. This Act shall be known and cited as “The Uniform or Clothing 
Allowance Act of 2022.” 
SEC. 2.  Declaration of Policy.  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State to 
promote and improve the economic status of civilian government employees as 
indispensable to the bureaucracy and in the delivery of government services, most 
especially, basic social services to the people.  Thus, the grant to them of benefits for 
requirements in their daily work and for materials essential to the performance of their tasks 
and functions, such as their uniform and official clothing, and review of the amounts of the 
same, are likewise indispensable. 
SEC. 3.  Uniform or Clothing Allowance. A Uniform or Clothing Allowance to cover 
the purchase of textiles as well as for sewing and tailoring costs in the making of uniforms, 
or for the purchase of uniforms already made, or, for employees exempt from uniforms, for 
the purchase of clothes in the amount of Ten thousand pesos (₱10,000.00) is hereby 
authorized: Provided, That this allowance shall be exempt from income tax. 
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SEC. 4.  Coverage. The grant of the Uniform or Clothing Allowance authorized in this 
Act shall be granted to covered civilian employees in all government agencies or 
instrumentalities pursuant to guidelines to be issued, within sixty days from the effectivity 
of this Act, by said agencies or instrumentalities: Provided, That where classes of 
employees are declared to be exempt from wearing uniforms, they shall be granted Ten 
thousand pesos (₱10,000.00) as Clothing Allowance; Provided, further, That the 
Allowance may be granted by agencies or instrumentalities in the form of cash, textile 
materials, or uniforms procured though a bidding process, with first preference given to 
the choice of the employees’ unions and organizations and to the use of Philippine fibers 
and Philippine-made fabrics; Provided, finally, That the Department of Budget and 
Management (DBM) shall coordinate with the Department of Science and Technology 
and the Department of Trade and Industry to ensure that agencies use  Philippine fibers 
and Philippine-made fabrics, especially those produced by micro, small, and medium 
enterprises, pursuant to Republic Act 9242, or the Philippine Tropical Fabrics Law. 
 
SEC. 5.  Funding.  The amounts necessary for the grant of Uniform or Clothing 
Allowance authorized under this Act shall be charged against the appropriations of the 
agency employers under the General Appropriations Act (GAA).  
 
SEC. 6.  Periodic Review for Increases. The DBM, in consultation which organizations 
and unions of government employees, is hereby mandated to conduct a periodic review 
of the Uniform and Clothing, taking into account the current prices of cloth, materials, 
and labor, and, if warranted, to recommend the necessary increase in the amount of the 
allowance.  
 
SEC. 7.  Repealing Clause. All laws, decrees, resolutions, orders or ordinances, rules 
and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed, amended 
or modified accordingly.  
 
SEC. 6. Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general 
circulation. 
 
 
Approved,