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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 983 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
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EXPLANATORY NOTE 
A nutrition survey conducted by the Department of Education revealed that 5 out 
of 10 Filipino children are suffering from varying degrees of malnutrition. 
Milk has been identified as a complete and nutritious food. It supplies more of 
the essential nutrients in significant amounts than any other single food. Milk and milk 
products can play a vital role in providing the basic nutrition the Filipino citizenry needs, 
especially its growing child population. 
This bill seeks to establish a milk feeding program for children 5-10 years old, to 
be sourced from locally produced milk. The funding for the program will come from 
tariff collections from the importation of milk and other dairy products as well as of dairy 
equipment and implements, and if insufficient, from the President‘s Social Fund. As an 
incentive to the supporters of the program, they will be given a tax credit equivalent to 
100% of their contribution. Seventy percent (70%) of the fund shall be used for the milk 
feeding program and thirty percent (30%) shall be used for other dairy and dairy-related 
activities. 
This bill will realize our hope for a better, healthier, and more productive 
population who will ultimately contribute to the development of our rural communities. 
Our dairy farmers will also benefit from the resulting expanded market base and greater 
funding assistance for the dairy industry. 
In view of the above, approval of this bill is earnestly sought. 


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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
Senate Bill No. 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANNY VILLAR 
AN ACT 
INSTITUTIONALIZING THE NATIONAL MILK FEEDING PROGRAM AND 
PROVIDING FOR MILKFEEDING FUND THEREFOR AND FOR 
OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Title of the Act - This Act shall be known as the MILKFEEDING 
ACT. 
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy - The State shall ensure the health and 
welfare of the vulnerable children population and shall institute effective mechanisms to 
carry out this policy. The State shall ensure the supply of regular food supplement for 
children in order to create a future generation of physically and mentally developed 
youth. 
SECTION 3. Milk Feeding Defined - Milk feeding, as used in this Act, shall 
cover contribution of locally produced milk from cows, carabaos and goats for direct 
intake of children aged 5-10 years old nationwide. The milk shall come from the 
produce of local dairy producers and processors at a price and quality acceptable to 
both the local milk suppliers and milk feeding sponsors, private or government. No milk 
intended for milk feeding shall be used for commercial sale. 
SECTION 4. Priority Coverage - Priority shall be given to children who are in the 
barangay day care centers, pre-schools and schools located in the rural areas of the 


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country and where prevalence of malnutrition is high. Second priorities are nursing 
mothers, pregnant women and elderly persons who also reside in rural communities, 
SECTION 5. Milk Feeding Fund - There is hereby allocated an initial amount of 
FIVE HUNDRED MILLION PESOS (P500M) out of the tax collection of the National 
Government from the importation of milk and dairy products as well as dairy equipment 
and implements in order to enhance and augment the existing funds for the National 
Milk Feeding Program of the National Dairy Authority. Said allocation shall constitute 
the seed money for the Milk Fund. Annually, thereafter, the Milk Feeding Fund shall be 
augmented by seventy-five percent (75%) of the annual tax collection of the National 
Government from the importation of milk and dairy products as well as dairy equipment 
and implements; Seventy percent (70%) of which shall be used for the National 
Feeding Program and the balance of thirty percent (30%) shall be used for other dairy 
and dairy-related activities. 
SECTION 6. Funding Alternatives - In the event that the milk import tariff fund 
allocation is insufficient, alternative funding shall be automatically sourced from the 
President's Social Fund, equivalent to at least 10% thereof. 
SECTION 7. 
Allocation of Funding - The Department of Budget and 
Management and of Finance are hereby directed to set aside the amounts from the 
taxes collected on the importation of milk and dairy products as well as dairy equipment 
and implements, andlor secure the 10% automatic allocation from the President's 
Social Fund. 
SECTION 8. lmplementing Authority - The National Dairy Authority, consistent 
with its mandate under Republic Act No. 7884, is hereby authorized to utilize the afore- 
said funds for the National Milk Feeding Program and other dairy and dairy-related 
development activities. The NDA shall tap bonafide and reputable women's 
organizations as milk feeding partners as well as other government agencies, people's 
organizations and non-government organizations (NGOs) with a social reform, pro-poor 
and pro-child agenda. 
SECTION 9. Milk Feeding Incentives -Any private entity or benefactor, local or 
foreign, who supports the Milk Feeding Program in whatever form, shall be given due 
tax credit equivalent to 100% of the value of their contribution to the program. 


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SECTION I O .  Repealing Clause - All laws, decrees, orders, rules, and 
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regulations and other issuances, or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this 
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Act, are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
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SECTION 1 I. 
This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
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Approved, 
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