Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Sixteenth
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 3083

Introduced by Honorable REYNALDO V. UMALI

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article II 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 public school teachers remains incomparable with the
salary of other professions. Worst, most are in the borderline of the poverty
threshold. Our school teachers 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.

Hence, the approval of this bill is earnestly sought,



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

3083

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Honorable REYNALDO V. UMALI

AN ACT UPGRADING THE MINIMUM SALARY GRADE OF PUBLIC SCHOOL
‘TEACHERS FROM SALARY GRADE 11 TO 15

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

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

SECTION 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.

SECTION 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 15. Salary grade levels of those
occupying higher positions shall be adjusted accordingly.

SECTION 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.

SECTION 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.

SECTION 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.

SECTION 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 for the year following the implementation of this Act.


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

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repealed.

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

Approved,