Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House BILLNo. _ 1141

Introduced by HON. HERNAN G. BIRON, JR.

AN ACT
CREATING TWO (2) ADDITIONAL BRANCHES OF REGIONAL TRIAL,
COURTS IN THE PROVINCE OF ILOILO WITH SEATS AT THE

COMPONENT CITY OF PASSI, AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTION
14, PARAGRAPH (G) OF BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 129, AS AMENDED BY

REPUBLIC ACT NO, 7154, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “JUDICIARY

REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1980”, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS,
THEREFOR

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to create two (2) additional Regional Trial Court branches for the
Province of Iloilo with seats at the Component City of Passi.

The present Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 68 in the Municipality of
Dumangas cannot accommodate and hear the huge volume of criminal, civil and other
cases that are filed on the average thirty to forty (30 ~ 40) every month, thus creating
backlogs of these cases. The territorial jurisdiction of the present RTC Branch 68 that
covers nine (9) big municipalities and one (1) component city could hardly be attended
by a single presiding judge, so that the administration of justice could hardly be served
and the disposition of cases cannot be done expeditiously.

Thus, congruent with the constitutional fiat that “AU persons shall have the right
10 a speedy disposition of their cases before all judicial, quasi-judicial, or administrative
bodies”, it is therefore imperative that two (2) additional branches of the Regional Trial
Courts be created in the component City of Passi.

‘Approval of this bill is earnestly requested.

N G. BIRON, JR.
District, lloilo


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

1141

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by HON. HERNAN G. BIRON, JR.

AN ACT.
CREATING TWO (2) ADDITIONAL BRANCHES OF REGIONAL TRIAL
COURTS IN THE PROVINCE OF ILOILO WITH SEATS AT THE
COMPONENT CITY OF PASSI, AMENDING FOR THE PURPO: CTION
14, PARAGRAPH (G) OF BATAS PAMBANSA BLG. 129, AS AMENDED BY
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7154, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “JUDICIARY
REORGANIZATION ACT OF 1980”, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress
assembled:

SECTION 1. Section 14, paragraph (g) of Batas Pambansa Blg. 129, otherwise
known as the Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1980, as amended, is hereby further
amended to read as follows:

=C. 14. Regional Trial Courts. —

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“(g)_ [Si
commissioned for th

nine] SEVENTY-ONE Regional Trial Court Judg:
th Judicial Region. There shall be:

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“ [Twenty-two] TW -FOUR branches with seats thereat for the
Province of Iloilo, the Sub-province of Guimaras, and the City of Iloilo,
with seats at Iloilo City, Barotac Viejo, Guimbal, Dumangas, and TWO
SEATS IN THE COMPONENT CITY OF PASSI; and

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SECTION 2. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, in coordination with the
Seeretary of the Department of Justice shall immediately include in the court's program
the operationalization of two (2) additional Regional Trial Courts for the Province of
Iloilo, with seats at the Component City of Passi, the funding of which shall be included
in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved,