FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC)
OF THE PHILIPPINES )
‘Second Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

6000

House Bill No.

Introduced by : ATTY. MA. THERESA B. BONOAN-DAVID
Representative, 4" District, City of Manila

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article Il, section 10 of the Constitution provides that "the State shall promote
social justice in all phases of national development’. Yet, while the Department of
Education continuously receives the largest share in the national budget of the country,
and that we often proclaim and acknowledge the sacrifices of our teachers, as well as
their contribution to the national development, the minimum salary of our teachers
remains incomparable with the salary of other professions. Worst, most are in the
borderline of the poverty threshold.

Our schoolteachers are the active partners of the State in ensuring quality
education for our children. Corollary thereto, the state is constitutionally and socially
obliged to ensure their economic well-being, among others. Our explanation that they
are victims of their own numbers has been an adage that should have wind out by the
passage of time.

Thus, the passage of this bill is earnestly requested.

ATTY. MA. THERESA B. BONOAN-DAVID
Representative, 4™ District, City of Manila


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Second Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
House Bill No__ 6.00)

Introduced by Atty. MA. THERESA B. BONOAN-DAVID
Representative, 4 District Manila

AN ACT UPGRADING THE MINIMUM SALARY GRADE OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
TEACHERS FROM SALARY GRADE 11 TO SALARY GRADE 14

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. This Act shall be known as "The Public School Teachers
Salary Upgrading Act”

SEC. 2. Reiteration of Policy. The Policy of the State "to ensure that education
receives the highest priority in governance and that teaching will attract and retain its rightful
share of the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job
satisfaction and fulfillment’ is hereby reiterated

SEC 3. Raising of the Minimum Salary Grade Level. The present minimum salary
grade level of public school teachers in the elementary and secondary schools shall be
upgraded from salary grade 11 to salary grade 15. Salary Grade levels of those occupying
higher positions shall be upgraded accordingly,

SEC. 4. Coverage. This Act shall cover all public school teachers in the elementary
and secondary level, whether nationally or locally funded, including those in technical and
vocational schools and state universities and colleges.

SEC. 5. Priority in Budget Allocation. The Government shall appropriate such
amount as may be necessary to carry out the objectives of this Act. Provided, that the
salary increase of public school teachers shall take priority over non-educational and non-
agricultural budgetary allocations

SEC. 6. Rules and Regulations. The Department of Education and the Department
of Budget and Management shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations of the
provisions of this Act.

SEC. 7. Appropriation. The initial funding required for the implementation of this
Act shall be sourced from the savings of the Executive Branch of the government and other
possible sources that may be determined by the Office of the President, and subsequent
funds needed shall be included in the General Appropriations Act following the
implementation of this Act

SEC. 8. Separability Clause. Should any provision herein be declared
unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity of the other provisions of this Act.

SEC. 9. Repealing Clause. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations
or other issuances or parts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed.

SEC. 10. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect immediately after its publication in
the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation in the Philippines/

APPROVED.