SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regulnr Session 
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SENATE 
S. No. 
1132 
Introduced by Sen. Antonio "Sonny" F. Trillanes IV 
Explanatory Note 
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In today's environment', to remain viable and stay ahead, organizations must continually scour 
their operations for opportunities to improve. Executives today expect continual improvement --
real and lasting improvements that create. public satisfaction, improve. public service 
effectiveness and internal process efficiencies. Improvements that are realized by bottom line 
results. 
Achieving excellence is the result of high performance throughout the entire organization. 
Leaders at all levels of an organization must relentlessly pursue the performance edge; those 
actions that will propel the organization to the next level of internal and external perfonnance. 
The state cannot legislate excellence, but can expect it, support it and acknowledge it when it 
occurs. Excellence is a passion and when it exists the legislators should support it fully. It is in 
this light that this bill seeks to create a process that will oversee the journey to excellence and 
will encourage the most vital aspects of the Philippine government to be managed at a world 
class level. 
In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
2l~:r~l::LANES 
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Senator 


SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
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SENATE 
S. No. 1132 
Introduced by Sen. Antonio "Sonny" F. TriIJanes IV 
AN ACT 
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PROMOTING GOVERNMENT AGENCY PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House a/Representatives a/the Philippines in Congress 
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SECTION 1. (1) The Committee on Performance Excellence (which shall henceforth be 
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called 'Committee') is established. The committee shall consist of eleven (11) members, 
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appointed as follows: 
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(a) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint two (2) members of the 
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House of Representatives; 
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(b) The President of the Senate shall appoint two (2) members of the Senate; 
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(c) The President of the Philippines shall appoint four (4) employees of the executive 
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department, and 
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(d) The President shall appoint three (3) public members who have demonstrated 
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experience in the practice of continuous improvement in business. 
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(2) (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section (1)(2)(b), the term of office of each member is 
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four (4) years, but a member serves at the pleasure of the appointing anthority. Before the 
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expiration of the tenn of a member, the appointing authority shall appoint a successor whose 
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telm begins on July I next following. If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing authority 
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shall make an appointment to become immediately effective for the unexpired term. 
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(b) If a legislative member of the committee ceases to be a legislator, the legislator's 
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position on the committee becomes vacant. If an executive department member of the committee 


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ceases to be an employee of the executive department, the member's position on the committee 
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becomes vacant. 
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(3) The committee shall select one of its members as chairperson and another as vice 
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chairperson. The committee may determine the duties and powers of the officers, as well as the 
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terms of office of the officers. 
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(4) A majority of the members of the committee constitutes a quomm for the transaction of 
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business. 
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(5) The committee shall meet at least once every calendar quarter at a place, day and hour 
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determined by the committee. The committee may also meet at other times and places specified 
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by the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members of the committee. 
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(6) Wllen the committee has selected a government agency (which shall henceforth be called 
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('Agency') for a pelformance excellence initiative, the committee may appoint as ex-officio 
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members of the committee the director and all other employees of the agency for the purposes of 
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planning and initial implementation of the initiative. 
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SEC. 2. The mission of the Committee on Performance Excellence is to assist agencies in 
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reaching performance excellence by engaging in performance excellence initiatives with 
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individual agencies. 
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(1)(a) The committee shaH focus on the following areas that define performance: 
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(A) Customer and market focus 
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(B) I-Iuman resources 
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(C) Leadership 
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(D) Measurement, mtalysis and knowledge management 
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(E) Process management 
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(F) Results 
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(b) The committee may focus on other areas that define performance and may give different 
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weights to different areas described in this section, according to the needs of the particular 
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agency that is a partner in a particular initiative. 
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(c) The committee shall help agencies develop or maintain methods tor reaching and measuring 
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performance excellence, including, but not limited to: 
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(A) Setting long-range plans and short-tenn pliorities; 
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(B) Developing performance measures that indicate how well an agency's systems are 
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performing; 
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(C) Working with internal and external customers to identify possible improvements to 
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the agency's systems; 
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(D) Identifying ways to make core processes operate better, faster and at less cost; 
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(E) Creating mechanisms to develop the skills of all agency employees; and 
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(F) Showing measurable results for the investment that taxpayers have made. 
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(2) The committee shall identify those agencies and services that are most important to Filipinos 
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and shall develop criteria for selecting particular agencies and a schedule for engaging in 
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perfonnance excellence initiatives with those agencies. The committee may determine how many 
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and what initiatives it can engage in at any given time. 
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(3) As part of any performance excellence initiative, the committee shall support agency efforts 
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to acquire the methods, tools and skills to achieve excellence in each perfonnance area. The 
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support may include, but need not be limited to: 
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(a) Assisting an agency in acquiring services from consultants, training organizations, 
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universities, business executives and other appropriate entities. 
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(b) Advising an agency on how to gain support for financing perfonnance excellence. 
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(c) Helping an agency to identify needs and obtain needed support. 
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(d) Working with an agency to ensure nationwide training and development programs 
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that assist the agency in its pursuit of excellence. 
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(e) Acting as a sounding board and advocate to help an agency remove administrative 
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barriers that prevent the agency from achieving performance excellence. 
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SEC. 3. When the Committee on Performance Excellence has chosen an agency .for 
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participation in a performance excellence initiative: 
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(1) The committee, with any ex-officio members from the agency appointed as provided in 
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Section (l )(6) of this Act, shall develop the framework of expectations for that particular agency, 
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including but not limited to: 
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(a) PerfOimance areas to be focused on in the initiative; 
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(b) An indication of what constitutes excellence for the agency in given performance 
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areas; and 
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(c) An indication of how progress will be measured and of how much progress can 
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reasonably be expected in a three-year period. 
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(2) Members of the committee shall spend time with agency employees learning about agency 
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operations. 
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(3) The committee shall meet regularly, on a schedule detennined by the committee, to review 
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the agency's progress toward excellence. Meetings shall include, but need not be limited to, 
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presentations by agency employees on overall progress and on progress in specific areas of 
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performance that have been identified. 
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(4) The committee and the agency may use the review sessions to continuously refine and 
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improve the methods used by the agency to achieve the goals of the performance excellence 
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initiative. 
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(5) The committee and the agency shall work together to obtain independent third patty 
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assessments of the agency's progress towards meeting the goals of the performance excellence 
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initiative. The purpose of the assessment is to enable the agency and the committee to leam 


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whether the goals and methods of the perfonnance excellence initiative are appropriate or how 
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they might be changed to better help the agency achieve excellence. 
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(6) The committee shall make periodic public reports on achievement of performance excellence. 
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The reports shall be in a form and manner determined by the committee and may include, but 
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need not be limited to, press releases. The rep0I1s shall be delivered to the Congress and made 
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available to the general public. 
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SEC. 4. The Commission on Audit (COA) shall provide administrative support to the 
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Committee on Performance Excellence. The COA may obtain assistance from the Civil Service 
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Commission (CSC) or any other agency necessary to fully support the activities of the 
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committee. 
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SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the term of office specified by Section 1 of this Act, of the 
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members first appointed to the Committee on Performance Excellence: 
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(1) One executive department member and one public member shall each serve for a term ending 
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July 1,2015. 
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(2) One I-louse member, one Senate member and one executive department member shall each 
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serve for a term ending July 1,2016. 
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(3) One executive department member and one public member shall each serve for a term ending 
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July 1,2016. 
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(4) One House member, one Senate member, one executive department member and one public 
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member shall each serve for a teml ending July 1, 2017. 
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SEC. 6. Any laws, decrees, ordinances or rules and regulations whicb are inconsistent 
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with or contrary to the provision of this Act is hereby amended or repealed. 
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SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete publication in at 
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least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved,