Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. _________ 
________________________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE JOEY SARTE SALCEDA 
_________________________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT 
CONVERTING THE DARAGA-PILAR DIVERSION ROAD 
IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF DARAGA, PROVINCE OF ALBAY 
AND MUNICIPALITY OF PILAR, PROVINCE OF SORSOGON, 
INTO A NATIONAL ROAD 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to convert the Daraga-Pilar Diversion Road, that connects the barangays of 
Mayon, San Ramon, Bigao and San Vicente Grande, in the Municipality of Daraga, Province 
of Albay and the Municipality of Pilar, Province of Sorsogon into a National Road. 
This road is among the most crucial roads not yet nationalized, as it will ensure that port and 
airport traffic do not coincide and congest routes between Metropolitan Legazpi and the 
Province of Sorsogon.  
The road is also part of the network of arterial thoroughfares that feed into the Bicol 
International Airport and its environs. For this reason, its proper maintenance as a national road 
is critical to ensuring that the free flow of goods and of people in the area is unimpeded. 
The road is also part of the Guinobatan-Camalig-Daraga-Legazpi (GUICADALE) Economic 
Township Program, initially a State-led humanitarian intervention to move people from harm’s 
way in risk areas to safer and higher grounds free from lahar. 
GUICADALE is now an economic development platform to transform previously 
underdeveloped 64,000 hectares of these jurisdictions into a sprawling business boom center. 
As such, these roads are also crucial to fulfilling the countryside development objectives 
embodied in Executive Order No. 70, which espouses an all-of-government, development-
centric approach to countering local armed insurgency. 
In view of the foregoing, the approval of this bill is urgently sought. 
JOEY SARTE SALCEDA 
August 23, 2021
11:27 am
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. _________ 
________________________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE JOEY SARTE SALCEDA 
_________________________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT 
CONVERTING THE DARAGA-PILAR DIVERSION ROAD 
IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF DARAGA, PROVINCE OF ALBAY 
AND MUNICIPALITY OF PILAR, PROVINCE OF SORSOGON, 
INTO A NATIONAL ROAD 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. The Daraga-Pilar Diversion Road, connecting the Municipality of Daraga, 
Province of Albay and the Municipality of Pilar, Province of Sorsogon, is hereby converted 
into a national road. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of Public Works and Highways shall include in the Department's 
program the improvement, repair and maintenance of the said road, the funding of which shall 
be included on the annual General Appropriations Act. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete publication in the 
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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