Republic of the Philippines 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
  Quezon City 
 NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
  First Regular Session 
  HOUSE BILL NO._____ 
  Introduced by: REPRESENTATIVES SHERNEE A. TAN-TAMBUT AND SAMIER A. TAN 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to establish the Magna Carta for Barangays, a vital piece of legislation that will 
effectively provide various benefits and privileges for barangays and barangay officials. The benefits 
and privileges include making all barangay officials, like the punong barangay, sangguniang barangay 
members, kabataang barangay chairperson, barangay secretary and barangay treasurer as regular 
employees. As such, they are entitled to fixed salaries, allowances, insurance, medical and dental 
coverage, retirement benefits and such other fringe benefits to which a regular government employee 
may be entitled to receive. 
This bill likewise proposes to promote the welfare of the barangays by providing them with basic 
services and facilities such as regular supply of clean and portable water, public transportation, 
schools, health centers and barangay halls, and other needs of the community, as well as scholarship 
grants and other matters greatly beneficial to the residents of the barangays. 
It is the paramount objective of this bill to give due recognition, by way of granting benefits and 
privileges to barangay officials, to the important role that barangays perform, being designated by 
Republic Act No. 7160, as amended, otherwise known as Local Government Code of 1991 as “xxx 
the primary planning and implementing unit of government policies, plans, programs, projects,and 
activities in the community, and as a forum wherein the collective views of the people may be 
expressed, crystallized and considered, and where disputes may be amicably settled” 
It is also worthy to emphasize that the barangay is the only type of local government unit where the 
Executive, Legislative and Judicial powers rolled into one are lodged. 
The foregoing reasons warrant the approval of this bill important piece of legislation. 
  SHERNEE A. TAN-TAMBUT
SAMIER A. TAN 
 Representative        
 Representative 
  Kusug Tausug Partylist 
         First District, Sulu 
March 28, 2023
3:12 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
  Quezon City 
 NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
  First Regular Session 
  HOUSE BILL NO._____ 
  Introduced by: REPRESENTATIVES SHERNEE A. TAN-TAMBUT AND SAMIER A. TAN 
    AN ACT 
     PROVIDING FOR THE MAGNA CARTA FOR BARANGAYS 
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 “Magna Carta for Barangays.” 
      SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is hereby declared the policy of the State to uplift the standard 
of living of barangay officials, grant every barangay the basic facilities for decent, healthy and 
comfortable living therein, and provide new measures that will ensure their full development for the 
general welfare of residents of barangays. Toward this end, every barangay shall be given full support 
for the effective performance of its role as the primary planning and implementing unit of government 
programs, projects and activities, and as a forum in which the collective views of the people in the 
community may be crystalized and considered. 
    SEC. 3. Barangay Officials as Regular Employees. – The punong barangay, sangguniang 
barangay members, kabataang barangay chairperson, the barangay secretary and barangay treasurer in 
all barangays are hereby declared regular employees. As such, they are entitled to fixed salaries, 
allowances, insurance, medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits and such other fringe benefits 
to which a regular government employee may be entitled to receive. 
    SEC. 4. Salaries. – All barangay officials mentioned in Section 3 of this Act shall be entitled to 
fixed salaries not exceeding the rate equivalent to the first step of the salary grades prescribed under 
Republic Act No. 6758, as amended, otherwise known as the Compensation and Position 
Classification Act of 1998, in the city or municipality where the barangay belongs: 
Salary Grade 2- - For the punong barangay 
Salary 16 – For the sangguniang barangay members, barangay secretary and barangay treasurer; 
    SEC. 5. Drinking Water. – Every barangay shall have a regular supply of clean and portable water. 
For this purpose, every city or municipality, shall construct or maintain at least one (1) deep well 
pumping device for drawing drinking water to supply the needs of every one thousand residents for 
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each barangay within its jurisdiction. 
 
 
    SEC. 6. Transportation. – Every barangay shall have a public transportation available at least once 
a day. For this purpose, every municipality or city, shall make such necessary representations before 
the appropriate government agencies to require public utility companies operating within its 
jurisdiction to provide the minimum means of transportation in every barangay. 
 
   SEC. 7. Barangay Halls, Schools and Health Centers. – Every barangay shall have one (1) 
barangay hall, one (1) health center, at least one (1) public elementary school, and one (1) public high 
school. 
 
    SEC. 8.  Automatic Release of Share in National Taxes. – The share of the barangays in the 
national taxes shall be automatically remitted to the barangays at the end of the calendar year. 
 
    SEC. 9. Transfer of Funds for the Maintenance of Roads and Bridges. – All public funds 
appropriated from the national treasury for the maintenance of barangay roads and bridges and other 
similar constructions shall be transferred or remitted directly to the general fund of every barangay for 
proper disposition by the barangay officials. 
 
    SEC. 10. Mandatory Share in All Taxes, Fees or Other Charges. – Twenty-five percent (25%) of 
all taxes collected on real property located within the barangay shall be considered barangay funds 
and shall be allocated in accordance with existing laws. In addition thereto, each barangay is entitled 
to ten percent (10%) in all other forms of taxes, fees, penalties, compromises or other charges 
collected from persons residing in the barangay or entities whose office or manufacturing plant is 
located within the barangay. 
 
    SEC. 11. Share in the Proceeds of Natural Wealth. – Every barangay is entitled to an equitable 
share in the proceeds from the exploitation, utilization and development of natural resources within its 
territory. The amount of the barangay share shall be determined by the city or municipality concerned 
after consultations with the concessionaries, the municipal or city officials and barangay officials, 
taking into account the extent of the exposure of the barangay residents to pollution, flood and 
ecological imbalance. This equitable sharing rate for each barangay shall be resolved by all parties 
concerned not later than six (6) months from the approval of this Act. Revenues derived from this 
source shall also form part of the general fund of the barangay. 
 
    SEC. 12. Scholarship Grant. – Every barangay shall offer at least one (1) bachelor’s degree 
scholarship grant annually to a bona fide resident of the barangay who must top the competitive 
examinations given by the barangay scholarship committee. The scholarship committee shall be 
created composed of five (5) members appointed by the sangguniang barangay, with the approval of 
the punong barangay. 
 
The scholarship grant includes tuition fees and all other school fees, reasonable allowances for 
schoolbooks, supplies and transportation, and other expenses as the barangay may deem appropriate 
 
    SEC. 13. Priority in Employment. – Residents in the barangay shall have the priority in hiring of 
workers and laborers for any government construction or development projects within their respective 
barangays. 
    SEC. 14. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – The Secretary of the Interior and Local 
Government shall, in consultation with the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) 


promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act. 
 
    SEC. 15. Appropriations. – The amount necessary to implement this Act shall be charged against 
the proceeds from national internal revenue taxes before deducting the Internal Revenue Allotment 
(IRA) shares of local government units. 
 
    SEC. 16. Penalty. – Any person who willfully interferes with, restrains or coerces barangay 
officials or residents in the exercise of their rights guaranteed under this Act, or who in any other 
manner commits any act to defeat any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be 
punished by a fine of not less than Five thousand pesos (P5,000.00) nor more than Ten thousand pesos 
(P10,000.00) or by imprisonment of not more than six (6) months, or both, subject to the discretion of 
the court. If the offender is a public official, the court shall order the dismissal of the offender from 
the government service  
 
    SEC. 17. Repealing Clause. – All laws, decrees, executive orders, implementing rules and 
regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended 
or modified accordingly. 
   
    SEC. 18. Separability Clause. – If any provisions of this Act are declared invalid, the remainder or 
any provisions thereof not affected thereby shall remain on force and effect. 
  
   SEC. 19. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official 
Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation. 
 
Approved,