SIXTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES }
First Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez an
Representative Maximo B. Rodriquez, Jr.

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

House Bill No.

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pllipino Program (4Ps) is a social development and
poverty reduction strategy that provides cash grants to poor households to improve their
health, nutrition, and education, particularly of children zero to 14 years. 4Ps is the flagship
program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DWSD) on poverty
eduction. It is a social development program that invests in human capital through the
provision of conditional cash grants to poor households, Through 4Ps, it is hoped that health
and nutrition of pregnant women and children aged zero to 14 years old will be improved
through their availment of preventive health check-ups, vaccines and immunizations. 4Ps
also aims to increase the enrollment and attendance rate of children aged 3-14 years old.
The 4P grants a family with a maximum of three children in school a P1,400 monthly subsidy
or 15,000 annually At present, 4Ps covers one million poor households in 17 regions in the

country.

In order to be qualified to be a beneficiary of the 4Ps, certain conditions must be
complied with. These conditions were imposed by the DSWD. This bill, therefore, seeks to
strengthen these conditions and provide for additional conditions to be complied with before
families can benefit from the 4Ps,

In view of the foregoing, immediate approval of this bill is earnestly requested.

/
RUFUS B. RODRIGHEZ

wan ncn JR.



SIXTEENTH CONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr.

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House Bill No.

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE CONDITIONS TO BE COMPLIED WITH BY BENEFICIARIES OF
THE PANTAWID PAMILYANG PILIPINO PROGRAM

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

SECTION 1. Declaration of Policy, itis the policy of the State to promote a just and dynamic
social order that will ensure the prosperity and independence of the nation and free the
people from poverty through policies that provide adequate social services, promote full
‘employment, a rising standard of living, and an improved quality of life for all

SEC. 2, The following conditions must be complied with before a family may be entitled to
become beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program of the Department of
Social Welfare and Development
* Children up to five years old must get regular health check-ups and vaccinations;
Children aged three to five years old must attend day-care center/pre-school at least
85 percent of the time;
© Children aged six to 14 years old must attend school at least 85 percent of the time;
* Children aged six to 14 years old must undergo deworming sessions every six
months;
© Parents must attend natural family planning sessions and pregnant women must get
pre- and post-natal care and be attended to during childbirth by a skilled or trained
birth attendant;
+ Families must maintain cleanliness in their surroundings and not throw/dispose of
their garbage in their backyards and front yards;
Families must not throw their garbage in sewers, rivers, creeks and other bodies of
water,
« Families must plants trees in their surroundings, and
Families must assist, help or volunteer in bayanihan works in their barangays.

SEC. 3. 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.

SEC. 4. Repealing Clause. - Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive order,
letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with the
provisions of the Actis hereby repealed, modified, or amended accordingly.

SEC. 5. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (16) days after its publication
in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,