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 PROVINCIAL ROADS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF 
DARAGA, PROVINCE OF ALBAY, PARTICULARLY 
DAANG MAHARLIKA JUNCTION - ILAWOD - BAGUMBAYAN - KIWALO - 
GABAWAN - TABON-TABON ROAD INTO A NATIONAL ROAD 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to convert the provincial roads connecting the Barangays of Ilawod, 
Bagumbayan, Kiwalo, Gabawan and Tabon-Tabon in the Municipality of Daraga, in the 
Province of Albay, into a National Road. 
The road directly links the more densely populated urban center of Daraga with less populated 
sections, opening these areas up for further development.  
The road also feeds into a network that includes Barangay Anislag, the most populous barangay 
of the Municipality of Daraga, and eventually leads to the population clusters around the Bicol 
International Airport. 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 PROVINCIAL ROADS IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF 
DARAGA, PROVINCE OF ALBAY, PARTICULARLY 
DAANG MAHARLIKA JUNCTION - ILAWOD - BAGUMBAYAN - KIWALO - 
GABAWAN - TABON-TABON ROAD INTO A NATIONAL ROAD 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. The road connecting Daang Maharlika Junction to the Barangays of 
Ilawod, Bagumbayan, Kiwalo, Gabawan and Tabon-Tabon in the Municipality of Daraga, in 
the Province of Albay, 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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