EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
First Regular Session
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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 the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary 
Education Law, 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. While many laws are 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 today, providing additional benefits to our 
professors 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 JpE L VILLANUEVA


EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
First Regular Session
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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
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. 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 its rightful share of the best 
available talents through adequate remuneration and other means of job 
satisfaction and fulfillment.
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SEC. 2. Coverage. -  The benefits under this Act shall apply to all full-time
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teaching personnel in State Universities and Colleges and State-Run
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Technical-Vocational Institutions.
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SEC. 3. 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.


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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. 4. 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. 5. Implementing Rules and Regulations. -  Within ninety (90) days 
from the effectivity of this Act, the Commission on Higher Education and the 
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, in consultation with 
the Department of Budget and Management, the State Universities and 
Colleges and other relevant stakeholders, shall promulgate the necessary 
rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.
SEC. 6. Separability Clause. -  Should any provision herein be declared 
unconstitutional or invalid, the same shall not affect the validity of the other 
provisions of this Act.
SEC. 7. Repealing Clause. -  Any law, presidential decree or issuance, 
executive order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation 
contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act is hereby repealed or 
modified accordingly.
SEC. 8. Effectivity. -  This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days from the 
date of its publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers 
of general circulation.
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Approved,
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