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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Batasan Hills, Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL No. _____ 
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Introduced by  
ACT Teachers Party-List Rep. FRANCE L. CASTRO,  
GABRIELA Women’s Party Rep. ARLENE D. BROSAS,  
and KABATAAN Party-List Rep. RAOUL DANNIEL A. MANUEL 
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AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR A TEACHING SUPPLIES ALLOWANCE 
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Public school teachers are among the lowest paid professionals in our society. In 
spite of this, they are often forced to pay for everyday classroom supplies out of their 
own pockets.   
Traditionally, the government provides classroom teachers with an annual 
allowance for classroom supplies, popularly known as a “chalk allowance” allotted to 
purchase classroom essentials such as chalks, erasers, forms and other supplies and 
materials.  Due to the consistent push of ACT Teachers Party-List for greater subsidy 
for education and less burden to the pockets of teachers for expenses necessary for 
teaching, the “chalk allowance” was increased from ₱700 per teacher per school year 
(₱3.50 per school day) in 2011 to ₱3,500 (₱16.83 per school day) in 2018. The teaching 
supplies allowance was increased to ₱5,000 in the 2022 General Appropriations Act but 
this is due to the consolidation in the benefit of the medical allowance (₱500) and the 
internet allowance (₱1,000). 
However, this amount is not enough to cover the costs of supplies including pens, 
pencils, notebooks, class records, manila paper, cartolina, bond paper, art paper, even 
ICT needs, that are essential for the daily functioning of teaching and learning in the 
classroom.  With the imposition and half-baked implementation of the insufficiently 
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funded K to 12 Program, public schools were not given enough number of copies of 
teachers’ guides and learners’ materials to be used in adopting the new curriculum.  
Schools’ budgets for miscellaneous and other operating expenses are still insufficient 
to cover the needs for instruction. 
Hence, teachers must draw from their own finances to pay for these materials 
which, in the first place, should be provided by the government. 
This bill proposes to increase the annual allowance for classroom supplies from 
₱1,500 to ₱10,000 (or ₱49.26 per day), thereby easing this onerous financial burden of 
teachers. 
First filed in the 15th Congress (7 February 2011), this was approved by the 
Committee on Basic Education of the House of Representatives and the Senate on third 
reading during the 17th Congress.
Immediate approval of this bill is therefore sought. 
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Rep. FRANCE L. CASTRO 
ACT Teachers Party-List 
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Rep. ARLENE D. BROSAS 
GABRIELA Women’s Party 
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Rep. RAOUL DANNIEL A. MANUEL 
KABATAAN Party-List 


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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Batasan Hills, Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL No. _____ 
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
Introduced by  
ACT Teachers Party-List Rep. FRANCE L. CASTRO,  
GABRIELA Women’s Party Rep. ARLENE D. BROSAS,  
and KABATAAN Party-List Rep. RAOUL DANNIEL A. MANUEL 
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AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR A TEACHING SUPPLIES ALLOWANCE 
FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1.  Title. This Act shall be known and cited as “Teaching Supplies 
Allowance Act of 2022.” 
SEC. 2.  Declaration of Policy.  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State to 
promote and improve the economic status of teachers and assist them in providing 
quality education to their students. 
SEC. 3.  Teaching Supplies Allowance. A Teaching Supplies Allowance for the 
purchase of chalks, erasers, forms, and other classroom supplies and materials in the 
amount of Ten thousand pesos (₱10,000.00) per teacher per school year is hereby 
authorized.   
SEC. 4.  Coverage. The grant of the cash allowance authorized in this Act shall be 
limited to teachers who are engaged in actual classroom teaching in public basic 
education.  
SEC. 5.  Funding.   In the first year of the effectivity of this Act, the amount of Five 
thousand pesos (₱5,000.00) per teacher per school year, shall be charged against the 
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current appropriation of the Department of Education (DepEd) for the Teaching 
Supplies Allowance, while the additional amount of Five thousand pesos (₱5,000.00) 
per teacher per school year, shall be charged against any available funds and/or savings 
of the DepEd. Thereafter, the amount of Ten thousand pesos (₱10,000.00) per teacher 
per school year, shall be included in the DepEd budget for the Teaching Supplies 
Allowance under the General Appropriations Act. 
 
SEC. 6.  Periodic Review for Increases. The Secretary of Education is hereby mandated 
to conduct a periodic review of the Teaching Supplies Allowance, taking into account 
the current prices of classroom supplies, and, if warranted, recommend the necessary 
increase in the amount of the allowance.  
 
SEC. 7.  Repealing Clause. All laws, decrees, resolutions, orders or ordinances, rules 
and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed, amended 
or modified accordingly.  
 
SEC. 6. Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general 
circulation. 
 
Approved,