13TH CONGRESS OF THE 
First Regular Session 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
There is an increasing public concern on the failure of the civil service to cope with 
technological strides particularly in the computerization of government offices. The lag is not 
only due to the lack of, but also in the absence or lack of personnel technically proficient to 
operate computers, or both. 
This bill seeks to place our civil service at par with the private sector in the use of 
computer technology. All clerical, technical, supervisory and even executive officers and 
employees of the government, who are professional or non-professional civil service eligible, 
will be required to undergo basic training in computer science and technology. n 


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13TH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
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S. No. 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR JR. 
AN ACT REQUIFUNG COMPUTER EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO 
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. This Act may be cited as the "Computer Education and 
Training of Government Employees Act." 
SECTION 2. Mandatory Computer Education. All employees of the government in all 
branches, subdivisions, instrumentalities and agencies thereof, who are professional or non- 
professional civil service eligible or their equivalent, holding clerical, technical supervisory and 
executive positions of all ranks and levels are required to undergo a training program in basic 
computer science and technology. Employees of the government who are employed on a casual 
or contractual basis ad those holding maintenance or janitorial positions are excluded from the 
requirements of this Act. 
SECTION 3. Program to be developed by Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service 
Commission is mandated to develop a program providing the training required under the 
preceding section, which program shall be undertaken by the employee during office hours and 
shall be credited as part of the hours worked by the employee in the performance of this duties ad 
functions. 
SECTION 4. Computer Proficient Employees Exempted from the Provisions of this Act. 
The Civil Service Cornmission shall include in the program under the preceding section a method 


whereby an officer or employee already proficient in computer science and technology may be 
exempted from the basic computer training required in this Act. 
SECTION 5. Provision for Implementation of this Act. The amount of One Hundred 
Million Pesos (=P=lOO,OOO,OOO.OO) to be included in the national budget for the incoming fiscal 
year, shall be applied to implement the provisions of this Act. 
Appropriation for the 
implementation of this Act for the succeeding years shall be automatically included in the annual 
General Appropriations Act. 
SECTION 6. Separability Clause. If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or 
unconstitutional. The remainder of the law or the provisions not otherwise affected shall remain 
valid and subsisting. 
SECTION 7. Repealing Clause. Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive 
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order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to, or inconsistent 
with the provisioi of this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly. 
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SECTIONi 8. Effective Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
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publication in at lkast (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
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