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Republic of the Philippines HOLST OF REPRESENTATIVES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RECEIVED

Constitution Hills, Quezon City 42 JUL 2019

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS ey:
First Regular Session :
RPEISTATON UNIT

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HOUSE BILL No, 1453

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to provide a “hardship allowance” to teachers assigned to
far-flung areas of the country and to provide measures to ensure their safety and
welfare while on assignment to said areas,

The provision of education is a duty of the State and in far-flung
barangays or barrios, the agents of the State are the teachers who are assigned to
said areas to perform their job in educating the youth in said areas.

In going to and fro said areas to do their job, teachers are exposed to
hardships which are not experienced by their peers assigned in more urban
areas. Hence, there is the necessity to compensate them for the extra trouble
they have to go through just to do their job.

Ultimately, the extra privileges and support which will be given by this
Act to the teachers assigned to remote areas will motivate them to perform
their jobs the best they can. This will eventually redound to the benefit of the

community they serve.
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ATTY. SALVADOR B. BELARO, JR.
Representative
1-Ang Edukasyon Party List


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

1453
HOUSE BILL NO. _~“*

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
GRANTING HARDHIP ALLOWANCE TO TEACHERS ASSIGNED IN
REMOTE AREAS AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MEASURES FOR
THEIR PROTECTION

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 “Teachers for the
Barrios Act of 2016.”

SEC. 2. a) All teachers assigned to far-flung areas shall be entitled to a monthly
hardship allowance equivalent to double the total expenses that said teacher will
incur every month in additional public transportation from the nearest capital
town or urban center of the school where he is assigned, assuming that said
teacher will go back and forth to said school daily.

b) For this purpose, Section 19 of Respublic Act 4670 “Magna Carta for
Public School Teachers” is hereby amended to include teachers assigned to far
flung areas or barrios as recipients of such hardship allowance.

4. In the event, teachers assigned to far-flung areas would need to stay in
a temporary house in the locality where they are teaching, the Barangay Captain


of the locality where the said teacher will be teacher is hereby mandated to
secure a suitable and safe housing for said teachers.

Sec. 4.The Department of Education (DepEd), in collaboration with the
Department of Interior and Local Government, shall issue the implementing
rules and regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. The funds neccessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its enactment
into law and thereafter.
SEC. 6. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or
amended accordingly.

SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.