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Republic of the Philippines RECEIVED
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS.
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 1301

Introduced by HONORABLE LUIS RAYMUND F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill aims to declare the conferment of a doctorate degree as equivalent to
entry level Career Executive Service Officer (CESO) eligibility in the Civil Service.

Section 3, B, Article IX of the 1987 Constitution provides:

"The Civil Service Commission, as the central personnel
agency of the Government, shall establish a career service
and adopt measures to promote morale, efficiency, integrity,
responsiveness, progressiveness, and courtesy in the civil
service. It shall strengthen the merit and reward system,
integrate all human resources development programs for all
levels and ranks, and institutionalize a management climate
conducive to public accountability...

It envisions that appointments in the civil service be made only according to
merit and fitness to be determined by competitive examination, except those
positions which are policy determining, primarily confidential or highly technical

Pursuant to this, the Commission regularly conducts professional and sub-
professional examinations all over the country. With regard to executive positions in
the civil service, appointments and promotions thereto require CESO eligibility.

By virtue of Republic Act No. 1080, the bar examinations and the
examinations given by the various boards of examiners of the Government are
declared as civil service examinations. Hence, those who passed these examinations
may be appointed into the civil service without the necessity of passing the civil
service examinations, except those positions requiring highly specialized knowledge
not covered by the ordinary board examinations.


This Bill aims to grant the same, if not a more fitting privilege to holders of
doctorate degrees recognizing their educational competence and fitness for
appointment or promotion to executive positions in the civil service by reason of their
having completed post-graduate studies which is equivalent to, if not more than
passing the bar or board examinations. This is to grant them, many of whom are
academicians, the equal opportunity with CESO holders in terms of growth and
career advancement in the civil service.

The foregoing premises considered, the immediate passage of this Bill is
earnestly sought.

LUIS/RAYMUND F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.


Republic of the Phili
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. 1301

Introduced by HONORABLE LUIS RAYMUND F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.

AN ACT DELARING THE CONFERMENT OF A DOCTORATE
DEGREE AS EQUIVALENT TO ENTRY LEVEL CAREER EXECUTIVE
SERVICE OFFICER ELIGIBILITY IN THE CIVIL SERVICE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines
in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The conferment of a doctorate degree by an institution of higher
learning duly accredited by the Commission on Higher Education is hereby declared
as equivalent to entry level Career Executive Service Officer (CESO) eligibility in the
civil service for purposes of appointment to executive positions in the classified service
in the Government or any of its branches, subdivisions, instrumentalities and agencies
including government-owned or controlled corporations with original charters, except
with regard to positions requiring highly specialized knowledge not covered by the
doctorate degree of the holder.

SECTION 2. The registrars of other responsible officers of duly accredited
colleges and universities offering doctorate degrees shall regularly furnish the Civil
Service Commission with a list of graduates of their respective colleges or universities
who have been conferred with doctorate degrees within sixty (60) days from
conferment.

SECTION 3. Eligibility shall commence on the date of conferment. Provided,
that for those who have already been conferred doctorate degrees prior to the passage
of this Act, their eligibility shall be deemed to commence from the approval hereof.

SECTION 4. The Civil Service Commission shall promulgate the rules and
regulations to implement the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 5. The Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the completion of
its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation
Approved,