NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
Second Regular Session 
) 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez 
House Bill No.  _____ 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The Philippines is currently experiencing a tourism boom all over the country. This 
means that more and more Filipinos are travelling all over the country which highlights the 
need to have clean and free public restrooms along national roads.  
These public restrooms will promote public health and sanitation. Further, with clean 
public restrooms, we can eliminate a common situation where travelers will stop alongside 
highways to answer the call of nature. 
In view of the foregoing, immediate approval of this bill is earnestly requested. 
 RUFUS B. RODRIGUEZ 
August 14, 2023
8:00 am
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NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
Second Regular Session 
) 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez 
House Bill No.  _____ 
AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RESTROOMS ALONG NATIONAL 
AND PROVINCIAL HIGHWAYS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, APPROPRIATING 
FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the “Land Transport Support Facilities for Hygiene 
and Convenience Act”. 
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is the policy of the State to provide public restrooms along 
national and provincial highways and to develop hygienic practice among land transport 
passengers. 
SEC. 3. Public restrooms shall be constructed every thirty (30) to fifty (50) kilometers apart 
along national and provincial highways throughout the country. These shall be erected within 
a distance of at least three (3) meters from the shoulder of the highway, zoning ordinance 
provision to the contrary notwithstanding. 
SEC. 4. The maintenance and supervision of the public restrooms shall be vested in the 
council or any nongovernmental organization (NGO) of the particular barangay where it is 
situated. A reasonable payment per head of passenger/user which shall be determined by 
the council/NGO shall accrue to the barangay. 
SEC. 5. The collection from the use of the public restrooms shall be held in a trust fund. 
Income derived from the public restrooms operation shall be used for the development 
projects of the particular barangay and shall be fully covered with proper documents for 
purposes of audit, and to serve as a guide for the city or municipal mayor who shall exercise 
overall supervision over the utilization of such trust fund.  
SEC. 6. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), in coordination with the 
Department of Tourism (DOT), the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of the 
Interior and Local Government (DILG), shall be mainly responsible for the production of the 
standard-sized public restrooms and the programming of the implementation of this project. 
It shall see to it that these public restrooms are provided with accessibility features for 
disabled persons and are consistent with the provisions in Section 54 of Presidential Decree 
No. 856, otherwise known as the Code of Sanitation of the Philippines. 
SEC. 7. The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the 
General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter. 
SEC. 8. All laws and parts thereof inconsistent with any provision of this Act shall be deemed 
repealed or modified as the case may be.  
SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in a newspaper of 
general circulation. 
Approved, 
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