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EIGHTEENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. _ 4398

Introduced by HONORABLE ANTONINO G. CALIXTO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This proposed measure seeks to provide retirement benefits to all barangay officials
who have served three terms of continuous service in good standing. Currently, these
barangay officials have no retirement benefits unlike the rest of the other elected local
government officials.

It is to be noted that our barangay officials are the frontlines of public service in our
community. Their duties and responsibilities to the people and to the community as a
whole are indispensable for a clean, peaceful, productive and orderly delivery of services
and dispensation of justice. Being dedicated community organizers and respectable public
servants, it is of paramount consideration that these barangay officials be accorded
retirement benefits enjoyed by other government officials and employees in the national
government as well as in the local government units.

Many of these officials dedicated their lives to the barangay for a measly pay and
yet they get nothing upon exhausting their effective years in life. It is in this light that the
measure is being proposed to provide them such retirement benefits to ensure that they
are being recompensed and rewarded for their hard work and dedication in public service.

Further, this is a re-filed measure from the 15th Congress approved by the
Committee on Local Government per Committee Report No. 2403 and approved by the
House on 3rd Reading on 11 October 2012.

Hence, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought for.

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Representative
‘ Lone District, Pasay City


Republic of the Philippines

House of Representatives
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNo._ 439°

Introduced by HONORABLE ANTONINO G. CALIXTO

AN ACT
GRANTING RETIREMENT BENEFITS TO ALL BARANGAY OFFICIALS
WHO HAVE RENDERED AT LEAST 3 (THREE) TERMS OF CONTINUOUS SERVICE
AND PROVIDING FUNDS THEREFOR

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 “Barangay Officials
Retirement Benefits Act’.

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. — It is hereby declared the policy of the State to
grant retirement benefits to barangay officials who have served for at least three (3) terms
of continuous service of good standing in the community.

SEC. 2. Definition of Terms. — For the purpose of this Act, the following terms shall
mean:

Barangay Officials — refer to the punong barangay, members of the sangguniang
barangay, the sangguniang kabataan chairman and the sangguniang kabataan members.

Retirement Benefit — refers to the retirement pay or gratuity pay equivalent to one
and a half (1 %) month of his/her last known honorarium for every year of continuous
rendered service as a barangay official of a local government concerned.

Barangay Retirement Fund — refers to the fund where each barangay shall
appropriate in its annual budget no less than five (5 %) percent of its annual internal
revenue allotment for the retirement of barangay officials. Provided, that such Retirement
Fund shall be given funding priority by the department of Budget and Management.

SEC. 4. Entitlement. — All barangay officials who have rendered three (3) terms of
continuous service as an elected official shall be entitled to lump sum retirement benefits
equivalent to one and a half (1%) month of his/her last known honorarium for every year


of service to the barangay concerned, which shall be taken from the Barangay Retirement
Fund herein provided for the purpose.

SEC. 5. Government Policies. — The exercise of his mandate must be based on
the Constitution, Civil Service law, Local Government Code of 1991, orders and other
allied laws.

SEC. 6. Limitation. — The right to avail of this retirement benefits shall not be given
to those barangay officials who were convicted of a crime or have pending criminal or
administrative cases filed against them.

SEC. 7. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Secretary of the
Department of Interior and Local Government in coordination with the local government
units concerned shall issue the necessary rules and regulations to implement this Act.

SEC. 8. Separability Clause. — If any part or provision of this Act shall be held
unconstitutional or invalid, other provisions, which are not affected thereby, shall continue
to be in full force and effect.

SEC. 9. Repealing Clause. — All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, rules
and regulations or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SEC. 10. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
Publication in at least (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,