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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
FIRST REGULAR SESSION 
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SENATE 
S.B. No. 119 
Introduced by Honorable Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr. 
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EXPLANATORY NOTE 
It is our state's policy to provide for and ensure the safety and wellbeing of the 
people. We must also bear in mind that in addition to this, health and sanitation should 
also be a fon!front variable in the measures that we craft. 
With the advancement of technology and the steadily rising increase automobiles 
and motor vehicles in the turn of the century, our country has reacted by prioritizing the 
creation, improvement and rehabilitation of roads and highways to accommodate the 
ever-growing number of road users. 
In support of the rapid development of our country's road network, we have 
implemented various measures. These however are mostly aimed at road safety and 
traffic management. This measure will address a different yet equally important aspect, 
the health of our motorists, especially those that who travel long distances along our 
highways. 
There are long stretches of roads, especially in the rural and provincial areas that 
have no restroom facilities for motorists to relieve themselves in. Because of this, 
motorists are left with no choice but to stop and relieve them at the roadside where it is 
not only dangerous due to the oncoming traffic, but also highly unsanitary. 
It is for this reason why I urge the passage of this measure. We must provide for the 
construction and maintenance of public restrooms at specified intervals along highways 
and roads across the country. 


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SIXTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHll.IPPINES 
FmST REGULAR SESSION 
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SENATE 
S.B.No. 49 
Introduced by Honorable Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr. 
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"AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PUBLIC RESTROOMS 
ALONG NATIONAL AND PROVINCIAL mGHW AYS THROUGHOUT THE 
COUNTRY, APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER 
PURPOSES" 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House a/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 local government unit concerned. A reasonable payment per head of passenger/user 
which shall be determined by the sanggunian may be collected and shall accrue to the 
local government unit. 
SEC. 5. The collection, if any, 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 
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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 
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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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