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NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
First Regular Session
SENATE 
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Introduced by SENATOR JOEL VILLANUEVA
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL BENEFITS FOR ALL 
TEACHING PERSONNEL IN STATE UNIVERSITIES AND 
COLLEGES AND STATE-RUN TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL 
INSTITUTIONS, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Article XIV, Section 5(5) of the 1987 Constitution expressly provides that 
“[t]he State shall assign the highest budgetary priority to education and ensure 
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.”
In 2017, the Congress passed Republic Act No. 10931, otherwise known 
as the “Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act,” a landmark law that 
gives life to the Constitutional policy to give the highest budgetary priority to 
education by giving college students free tuition fee. Meanwhile, in 2019, 
Republic Act No. 11230, or the “Tulong Trabaho Act,” was passed to ensure 
access to quality technical-vocational education and training that are aligned 
with the needs of the industry. While many laws have been passed to address 
the needs of the students, little, if any, are passed to alleviate the condition of 
the teachers, especially with regard to their salaries and benefits.
This bill seeks to address this gap by ensuring that the hardworking 
teaching personnel in State Universities and Colleges and State-Run Technical 
and Vocational Institutions are better compensated by giving them additional 
grocery allowance and medical allowance, to be given to them each quarter. 
With the high cost of living, fuel price hikes, the continuous threat of the 
Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic and global economic uncertainties.


providing additional benefits to our teachers and instructors would help in 
guaranteeing that the best, exceptional and dedicated professors commit to or 
continue to commit to teaching and shaping the minds of the future generation 
of Filipinos.
The immediate passage of this bill is earnestly sought.
SENATOR JQEL VILLANUEVA


NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
First Regular Session
SENATE
S.B. No. 565
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AN ACT PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL BENEFITS FOR ALL 
TEACHING PERSONNEL IN STATE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES 
AND STATE-RUN TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled:
SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Additional Allowances 
for sue and TVI Personnel Act.”
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is the policy of the State to protect and promote 
the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels, and to take appropriate steps to 
make such education accessible to all. It is also the policy of the State to give the highest 
budgetary priority to education and ensure that the teaching profession will attract and 
retain the best available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job 
satisfaction and fulfillment.
SEC. 3. Coverage. - The benefits under this Act shall apply to all full-time teaching 
personnel in State Universities and Colleges and State-Run Technical-Vocational 
Institutions.
SEC. 4. Additional Support. - The covered personnel shall be entitled to the 
following additional benefits:
a) Additional Grocery and Transportation Expense in the amount of Three Thousand
Pesos (Php3,000.00) per quarter; and
b) Medical Allowance in the amount of Two Thousand Pesos (Php2,000.00) per
quarter.
The foregoing amounts shall be adjusted every three (3) years to account for 
inflation.


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These additional benefits shall not be taxable, unless the total amount of benefits 
received by the covered personnel exceeds the threshold provided under Section 32(B), 
Chapter VI of the National Internal Revenue Code of the Philippines.
SEC. 5. Appropriation. - The amount necessary to carry out the initial implementation 
of this Act shall be sourced from the current budget of the State Universities and Colleges 
and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). Thereafter, the 
amount shall be included in the General Appropriations Act.
SEC. 6. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - Within ninety (90) days from the 
effectivity of this Act, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) and the Technical 
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), in coordination with the 
Department of Budget and Management (DBM), State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), 
state-run Technical and Vocational Institutions (TVIs) and other relevant stakeholders, 
shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of 
this Act.
SEC. 7. Separability Clause. - Any portion or provision of this Act that is declared 
unconstitutional or invalid shall not have the effect of nullifying other portions or provisions 
hereof as long as such remaining portions can still subsist and be given effect in their 
entirety.
SEC. 8. Repealing Clause. - All laws, ordinances, decrees, executive orders, 
rules and regulations, other issuances or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this 
Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
SEC. 9. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days from its publication 
in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.
Approved,