HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Republic of the Philippines RECEIVED

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 12 suL 2018

Constitution Hills, Quezon City Date: 6 Wh UID
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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

BY:

RECISTRATION UNIT
41434 BULLS AND INDEX SERVICE
HOUSE BILL NO. saa

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro Jr,

EXPLANATORY NOTE

‘This bill secks to provide insurance coverage to teachers and students
while in the school premises.

Cognate to the importance which the State accords to education should be
legislative concern upon the safety of our teachers and their students. Our
teachers, many of whom take public transportation to and from work, are
exposed to the risk of accidents on a daily basis. As they have the task of
educating our children, it is only but proper that their safety be attended to.

In the same manner, their students must likewise be taken cared of by
providing them basic insurance coverage.

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ATTY. SALVADOR B. BELARO, JR.
Representative
1-Ang Edukasyon Party List


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

5
HOUSE BILL No, _1404

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
PROVIDING ACCIDENT INSURANCE TO TEACHERS AND
STUDENTS

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 known as the “Teachers and
Students Insurance Act of 2016..”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. a) The State recognizes the indispensable role of
teachers in educating our citizenry. It is thus but fitting that the State ensure that
the teaching profession attract the best and the brightest by making teachers’
compensation and benefits reasonably competitive.

b) In this regard, it is essential that the financial security of the
teaching profession be secured by contemporary and available means such as
the provision to them of accident insurance.

c)  Cognate to the State’s giving importance to the education of our
citizenry is the ancillary to provide protection to teachers and students while in
the school premises which can be done through giving teachers and student
accident insurance.


SEC. 3. The State shall provide basic accident group insurance to teachers
in public schools as well as to students while in the school premises. Private
schools shall likewise be required to provide basic accident group insurance to
their teachers and their students while in the school premises. No private school
shall be allowed to operate or continue to operate without securing such
accident insurance.

SEC. 4. The Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher
Education (CHED) and the Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) shall be tasked to formulate and issue the rules and
regulations that are necessary to implement the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. The funds necessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its enactment
into law and thereafter.

SEC. 6. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or
amended accordingly.

SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.