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Introduced by Senator Antonio “Sonny” F. Trillanes IV 
Explanatory Note 
In today’s environment, to remain viable and stay ahead, organizations must continually scour 
their operations for opportunities to improve. Executives today expect continual improvement -- 
real and lasting improvements that create public satisfaction, improve public service 
effectiveness and internal process efficiencies. Improvements that are realized by bottom line 
results. 
Achieving excellence is the result of high performance throughout the entire organization. 
Leaders at all levels of an organization must relentlessly pursue the performance edge; those 
actions that will propel the organization to the next level of internal and external performance. 
The state cannot legislate excellence, but can expect it, support it and acknowledge it when it 
occurs. Excellence is a passion and when it exists the legislators should support it fully. It is in 
this light that this bill seeks to create a process that will oversee the journey to excellence and 
will encourage the most vital aspects of the Philippine government to be managed at a world- 
class level. 
In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
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0 “SONNY” F. TRILLANES N 
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Introduced by Senator Antonio "Sonny" F. Trillanes IV 
AN ACT 
RELATING TO GOVERNMENT AGENCY PERFORMANCE EXCELLENCE 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House OfRepresentatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. (1) The Committee on Performance Excellence (which shall henceforth 
be called 'Committee') is established. The committee shall consist of eleven (11) members, 
appointed as follows: 
(a) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint two (2) members of the 
House of Representatives; 
(b) The President of the Senate shall appoint two (2) members of the Senate; 
(c) The President of the Philippines shall appoint fqur (4) employees of the executive 
department, and 
(d) The President shall appoint three (3) public members who have demonstrated 
experience in the practice of continuous improvement in business. 
(2) (a) Except as otherwise provided in Section (1)(2)(b), the term of office of each member is 
four (4) years, but a member serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority. Before the 
expiration of the term of a member, the appointing authority shall appoint a successor whose 
term begins on July 1 next following. If there is a vacancy for any cause, the appointing 
authority shall make an appointment to become immediately effective for the unexpired 
term. 
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(b) If a legislative member of the committee ceases to be a legislator, the legislator's position 
on the committee becomes vacant. If an executive department member of the committee 
ceases to be an employee of the executive department, the member's position on the 
committee becomes vacant. 
(3) The committee shall select one of its members as chairperson and another as vice 
chairperson. The committee may determine the duties and powers of the officers, as well as 
the terms of office of the officers. 
(4) A majority of the members of the committee constitutes a quorum for the transaction of 
business. 
(5) The committee shall meet at least once every calendar quarter at a place, day and hour 
determined by the committee. The committee may also meet at other times and places 
specified by the call of the chairperson or of a majority of the members of the committee. 
(6) When the committee has selected a government agency (which shall henceforth be called 
'Agency') for a performance excellence initiative, the committee may appoint as ex-oficio 
members of the committee the director and any other employees of the agency for the 
purposes of planning and initial implementation of the initiative. 
SEC. 2. The mission of the Committee on Performance Excellence is to assist agencies 
in reaching performance excellence by engaging in performance excellence initiatives with 
individual agencies. 
(l)(a) The committee shall focus on the following areas that define performance: 
(A) Customer and market focus 
(B) Human resources 
(C) Leadership 
(D) Measurement, analysis and knowledge management 
(E) Process management 
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(F) Results 
(G) Strategic planning 
(b) The committee may focus on other areas that define performance and may give different 
weights to different areas described in this section, according to the needs of the 
particular agency that is a partner in a particular initiative. 
(c) The committee shall help agencies develop or maintain methods for reaching and 
measuring performance excellence, including, but not limited to: 
(A) Setting long-range plans and short-term priorities; 
(l3) Developing performance measures that indicate how well an agency's systems are 
performing; 
(C) Working with internal and external customers to identify possible improvemennts to 
the agency's systems; 
@) Identifying ways to make core processes operate better, faster and at less cost; 
(E) Creating mechanisms to develop the skills of all agency employees; and 
(F) Showing measurable results for the investment that taxpayers have made. 
(2) The committee shall identify those agencies and services that are most important to Filipinos 
and shall develop criteria for selecting particular agencies and a schedule for engaging in 
performance excellence initiatives with those agencies. The committee may determine how 
many and what initiatives it can engage in at any given time. 
(3) As part of any pefformance excellence initiative, the committee shall support agency efforts 
to acquire the methods, tools and skills to achieve excellence in each performance area. 
The support may include, but need not be limited to: 
(a) Assisting an agency in acquiring services from consultants, training organizations, 
universities, business executives and other appropriate entities. 
(b) Advising an agency on how to gain support for financing performance excellence. 
(c) Helping an agency to identify needs and obtain needed support. 
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(d) Working with an agency to ensure nationwide training and development programs that 
assist the agency in its pursuit of excellence. 
(e) Acting as a sounding board and advocate to help an agency remove administrative 
barriers that prevent the agency from achieving performance excellence. 
SEC. 3. When the Committee on Performance Excellence has chosen an agency for 
participation in a performance excellence initiative: 
(1) The committee, with any ex-oficio members from the agency appointed as provided in 
section 1 (6) of this 2007 Act, shall develop the framework of expectations for that 
particular agency, including but not limited to: 
(a) Performance areas to be focused on in the initiative; 
(b) An indication of what constitutes excellence for the agency in given performance areas; and 
(c) An indication of how progress will be measured and of how much progress can reasonably 
be expected in a three-year period. 
(2) Members of the committee shall spend time with agency employees learning about agency 
operations. 
(3) The committee shall meet regularly, on a schedule determined by the committee, to review 
the agency's progress toward excellence. Meetings shall include, but need not be limited to, 
presentations by agency employees on overall progress and on progress in specific areas of 
performance that have been identified. 
(4) The committee and the agency may use the review sessions to continuously refine and 
improve the methods used by the agency to achieve the goals of the performance excellence 
initiative. 
(5) The committee and the agency shall work together to obtain independent, third party 
assessments of the agency's progress towards meeting the goals of the performance 
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initiative. The purpose of the assessment is to enable the agency and the committee to learn 
whether the goals and methods of the performance excellence initiative are appropriate or 
how they might be changed to better help the agency achieve excellence. 
(6) The committee shall make periodic public reports on achievement of performance excellence. 
The reports shall be in a form and manner determined by the committee and may include, 
but need not be limited to, press releases. The reports shall be delivered to the Governor and 
to each member of the Legislative Assembly and made available to the general public. 
SEC. 4. The Commission on Audit (COA) shall provide administrative support to the 
Committee on Performance Excellence. The COA may obtain assistance from the Civil Service 
Commission (CSC) or any other agency necessary to fully support the activities of the 
committee. 
SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the term of office specified by Section 1 of this Act, of the 
members first appointed to the Committee on Performance Excellence: 
(1) One executive department member and one public member shall each serve for a term 
ending July 1,2009. 
(2) One House member, one Senate member and one executive department member shall each 
serve for a term ending July 1,2010. 
(3) One executive department member and one public member shall each serve for a term 
ending July 1,20 1 1. 
(4) One House member, one Senate member, one executive department member and one public 
member shall each serve for a term ending July 1,2012. 
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SEC. 6. Repealing C1arcse.- Any laws, decrees, ordinances or rules and regulations 
which are inconsistent with or contrary to the provision of this Act is hereby amended or 
SEC. 7. Effectiv&.- This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its complete 
publication in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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