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First Regular Session LS AND: INDEX SERVICE

House Bill No. 1230.

Introduced by Honorable REYNALDO V. UMALI

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article II, Section 10 of the 1987 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 schools teachers are the active 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.

|ALDO V. Ul
Representative
Second District, Province of Oriental Mindoro


Republic of the Philippines

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 1230

Introduced by Honorable REYNALDO V. UMALI

AN ACT UPGRADING THE MINIMUM SALARY GRADE OF PUBLIC
‘HOOL 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 provision 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 other provisions of
this Act.

SECTION 9. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, orders, rules and
regulations or parts thercof inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or
amended accordingly.

SECTION 10. Rffectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after

its publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) national newspapers of
general circulation.

Approved.