Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
EIGTHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. 
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INTRODUCED BY  
REPRESENTATIVE CESAR “JAWO” L. JIMENEZ, JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The proposed bill seeks to amend RA 9383 granting to the Universidad 
de Zamboanga (UZ) a franchise to construct, install, establish, operate and 
maintain radio broadcast stations on the territory of Ipil, Zamboanga, 
Sibugay for commercial and educational purposes in the public interest. 
The proposed bill seeks to amend the language of relevant Sections of 
RA 9383 to add television stations. And to amend the area of coverage 
beyond Ipil, to include the whole of territory of the Zamboanga Peninsula. 
UZ has a total of seven campuses: 5 in Zamboanga City; one in in 
Zambaonga Sibugay, and one in Pagadian City.   
Since 2006, the University has demonstrated a commitment to improve 
and expand educational resources and availability to the youth of Zamboanga 
peninsula. The University has a consistent track record providing quality, 
informational, programming, informed by the public interest. UZ’s broadcast 
content has provided relevant, time-sensitive and timely, social information 
on issues of relevance to our nation. Its participation in the broadcast space 
has proven a competency to provide in a positive aspect the shaping of social 
values for the whole of Zamboanga. 
April 13, 2021
3:25 pm
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The fruitful combination of educational institutions and broadcasting 
technologies is a hallmark of any free society, based upon democratic 
principles of governance. It produces a win-win situation for all stakeholders 
involved – the institute, the student-body, the public at large. 
In its endeavor to advance and strengthen capacity to deliver a public 
service to the Filipino people, UZ now seeks license to expand the scope and 
reach of its media franchise and public service programming to the whole of 
Zamboanga Peninsula.  
In this way, Universidad de Zamboanga can fully and more efficiently 
deploy its capital and resources – financial & human – invested therein, to 
ensure a seamless, uniform, uninterrupted, provincial-wide reach of its public 
service mission to the Filipino people in an ongoing effort to enrich, enhance, 
and improve the broadcasting infrastructure in the Province and beyond.  
With the view that Universidad de Zamboanga will continue to 
improve its present course, the immediate approval of this bill is earnestly 
requested. 
CESAR “JAWO” L. JIMENEZ, JR. 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
EIGTHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. 
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Introduced by 
REPRESENTATIVE CESAR “JAWO” L. JIMENEZ, JR. 
AN ACT  
AMENDING THE FRANCHISE GRANTED TO UNIVERSIDAD DE 
ZAMBOANGA UNDER REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9383, EXPANDING THE 
COVERAGE OF ITS FRANCHISE TO CONSTRUCT, MAINTAIN AND 
OPERATE RADIO AND TELEVISION BROADCASTING 
THROUGHOUT THE ZAMBOANGA PENINSULA, AND FOR OTHER 
PURPOSES   
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines 
in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Nature and Scope of Franchise. – Subject to the provisions 
of the Constitution and applicable laws, rules and regulations, there is hereby 
granted to Universidad de Zamboanga, hereunder referred to as the grantee, its 
successors or assignees, a franchise to construct, maintain and operate for 
commercial and educational purposes and in the public interest, radio AND 
TELEVISION 
BROADCASTING 
STATIONS 
THROUGHOUT 
THE 
ZAMBOANGA PENINSULA,   at such place as the grantee may select and the 
National Telecommunications Commission may approve, 
and where 
frequencies AND CHANNELS are still available for radio AND TELEVISION 
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broadcasting, through microwave, satellite or whatever means, including the use 
of any new technologies in radio AND TELEVISION SYSTEMS, with 
corresponding technological auxiliaries and facilities, special broadcast and 
other program and distribution services and relay stations.  
SECTION 2. Repealibility and Non-Exclusivity Clause. – This franchise 
shall be subject to amendment, alteration, or repeal by the Congress of the 
Philippines when the public interest so requires and shall not be interpreted as 
an exclusive grant of the privileges herein provided for. 
SECTION 3. Separability Clause. – If any of the sections or provisions 
of this Act is held invalid, all other provisions not affected thereby shall remain 
valid. 
SECTION 4. Repealing Clause. – All laws, decrees, orders, resolutions, 
instructions, rules and regulations, and other issuances or parts thereof which 
are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are thereby repealed, amended, 
or modified accordingly. 
SECTION 5. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days 
after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general 
circulation.  
 
Approved,