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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session REGISTRATION UNIT

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House Bill No. 1628

INTRODUCED BY: REPRESENTATIVE GWENDOLYN F. GARCIA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

After a long and divisive election campaign period, the country has just concluded
the hotly contested May 9, 2016 national and local elections.

Presently, our people and their political leaders are engaged in the slow and
tedious process of reconciliation, realignment, coalition and critical collaboration, in
order to forge some sort of a unity of purpose and direction, in support of the
Administration of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte. However, this new-found unity will be
threatened or even imperiled when the country will go through again another divisive
election campaign period for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan election in
October of this year, 2016.

Moreover, in all likelihood, the country will hold a Constitutional Convention for
the amendment or revision of the 1987 Constitution early next year. This is primarily to
bring to reality the number one priority of the President’s political reform agenda, which
is for our country to shift from the present unitary to the federal system of government.
This political exercise will require the election of delegates to the Constitutional
Convention. So, the country will have to hold two elections in less than a year between
each other. And it would be more economical and practicable if we can have only one
election instead of two. But the country cannot have the election of delegates to the
Constitutional Convention before October of this year, 2016, considering that this will
require an Act of Congress providing for that election and there is no more material time
left for the passage of the Act and the campaign period.

And so, under circumstances, the most logical and sensible course of action would
be to postpone and reset the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan election to the
Second Monday of January, 2017 or to another date as may be set by Congress for the
election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

Hence, early approval of this Bill is earnestly and respectfully requested.

G F. GARCIA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No._1628

INTRODUCED BY: REPRESENTATIVE GWENDOLYN F. GARCIA

“AN ACTPROVIDING FOR THE POSTPONEMENT AND
RESETTING OF THE BARANGAY AND SANGGUNIANG KABATAAN
ELECTION AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”

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 “Postponement and Resetting of
the October, 2016 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Election Act”.

Section 2. Date of Election.- The election of the Officers of the Barangay and
Sangguniang Kabataan set in October, 2016, is hereby postponed and reset to the Second
Monday of January of 2017 or to such other date as may be set by Congress for the
election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

Section 3. Hold-over of Incumbent Elective Officials.- Incumbent Barangay Officials
shall remain and continue in Office in a hold-over capacity until their successors shall
have been elected and qualified.

Section 4. Rules and Regulations.- The Commission on Election shall promulgate the
necessary Rules and Regulations for the election of the officials of the Barangay and
Sangguniang Kabataan.

Section 5. Repealing Clause.- All laws, rules, regulations or parts thereof, which are
inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

Section 6, Effectivity.- This Act takes effect upon its approval.