Republic of the Philippines
House of Representatives
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

4467

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Representative ANA CRISTINA SIQUIAN-GO

AN ACT
ALLOCATING FIVE PERCENT (5%) OF THE COLLECTIONS FROM THE MOTOR
VEHICLE USER’S CHARGE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE
INCLUSION OF DRIVER’S EDUCATION SUBJECTS IN THE SENIOR HIGH
SCHOOL CURRICULUM AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO.
8794, THE LAW IMPOSING THE MOTOR VEHICLE USER’S CHARGE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The first year that anybody can have his or her driver's license is always the most
dangerous year of his or her life. In the Philippines, a new driver normally learns to drive
from friends, acquaintances or relatives who already know how. The driving lesson one
gets is informal and rudimentary. The vehicle used for test-drive is always a borrowed
one or one secured without the owner's consent resulting to hasty and ineffective test-
drives.

For those with the means, a private driving school is the way to his or her first
legitimate driving experience. While there is a huge number of private driving schools
throughout the country, they can only serve the need of those with money to pay. As it
is now, formal driver's education is only available to those who can pay a course. For
those who cannot pay, they are entirely dependent on the generosity of friends who are
willing to let them handle the wheel and the guts to let them drive through traffic despite
the student's ineptitude.

The demand for a mandatory nationwide driver's education is never this
emphatic, 79% of road crash fatalities now is caused by driver error. There are 13
Million driver's licenses issued almost all of which were issued to those who learned to
drive from friends, relatives and acquaintances. The fatal risk along the 270,000-
kilometer road networks throughout the country is multiplied by millions of informally
trained and uneducated drivers.

Driving trucks and public utility vehicles is a livelihood for at least 2.5 Million
Filipino drivers. Almost certainly none of them have leamed to drive through a formal
driving school. A Filipino PUV driver learns to drive because a jeepney, a bus or a
tricycle was lent to him by its driver for him to learn and practice driving. The grim
statistics is instructive in this regard. 16% of road crashes is caused by trucks. There is
now a pressing need for us to guarantee that the next generation of drivers should be
more informed, educated and proficient.

Driver's education for new drivers can be institutionalized by interfacing it with the
curriculum of the Department of Education. Driver's education can be best integrated as


mandatory courses in the Senior High School, the level when one can already apply for
a student and non-professional driver's license. All Senior High School students will be
required to take the subjects as pre requisite for graduation. Driver's education will thus
be required of all 18 years old at no separate cost. There is no other way but through
this.

A part of the Road User's tax collected should be allocated for this aim. By its
nature and purpose, it is just right that part of the Road User's tax should also be
earmarked to anchor a nationwide driver's education program. As intended by Republic
Act No. 8794, a responsible driving public serves the objectives of the MVUC for an
efficacious use of roads and a safe riding public. A part of the special funds should be
allocated to the Department of Education for the inclusion of driver education subjects in
the Senior High School curriculum,

In view of the above, the immediate passage of this Bill is earnestly sought.

ANA CRISTINA SIQUIAN-GO

Representative
24 District, Isabela


Republic of the Philippines
House of Representatives
Quezon City, Metro Manila

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS,
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO. 4467

Introduced by Representative ANA CRISTINA SIQUIAN-GO

AN ACT
ALLOCATING FIVE PERCENT (5%) OF THE COLLECTIONS FROM THE MOTOR
VEHICLE USER’S CHARGE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE
INCLUSION OF DRIVER’S EDUCATION SUBJECTS IN THE SENIOR HIGH
SCHOOL CURRICULUM AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO.
8794, THE LAW IMPOSING THE MOTOR VEHICLE USER’S CHARGE

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Section 7 of Republic Act No. 8794 is hereby amended to read as

follows:

Section 7. Disposition of Monies Collected. All monies collected
under this Act shall be earmarked solely and used exclusively (1) for road
maintenance and the improved of the road drainage, (2) for the installation of
adequate and efficient traffic lights and road safety devices, [and] (3) for air
pollution control, AND (4) FOR A NATIONWIDE DRIVER'S EDUCATION
PROGRAM

All such monies collected shall be deposited in four(4) FIVE (5)
special trust accounts in the National Treasury, namely: (1) Special Road
Support Fund; (2) Special Local Road Fund; (3) Special Road Safety Fund;
[and] (4) Special Vehicle Pollution Control Fund AND (5) SPECIAL
DRIVER'S EDUCATION FUND. The distribution of collections under this Act

shall be as follows:


1. SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT (75%) Eighty-percent (80%) shall be

allotted to and placed in the Special Road Support Fund;

2. Five percent (5%) shall be allotted to and placed in the Special Local

Road Fund;

3. Seven and one half percent (7.5%) shall be allotted to and placed in

the Special Vehicle Pollution Control Fund;

4. FIVE PERCENT (5%) SHALL BE ALLOTTED TO AND PLACED IN
THE SPECIAL DRIVER'S EDUCATION FUND.

The Special Road Support Fund AND the Special Local Road Fund
shall be under the DPWH; whereas-the Special Vehicle Pollution Control
Fund shall be under the DOTr AND THE SPECIAL DRIVER'S EDUCATION
FUND SHALL BE UNDER THE DEPED.

Seventy percent (70%) of the Special Road Support Fund shall be used
for the maintenance of, and the improvement of drainage of national primary
roads. The remaining thirty- percent (30%) thereof shall be allocated and use
for the maintenance, and improved of drainage of national secondary roads

throughout the country.

The cost of installation of adequate and efficient traffic lights and road
safety devices throughout the country, where such traffic lights and safety

devices are needed, shall be taken from the Special Road safety devices.

A Road Board to implement the prudent and efficient management and
utilization of the special ROAD SUPPORT AND LOCAL ROAD funds shall be
organized by the President of the Philippines. The Road Board shall be
composed of seven (7) members, with the secretary of the DPWH as ex

officio head, and the secretaries of the Department of Finance, Budget and


Management, and the Department of Transportation and Communication, as
ex officio members. The remaining three (3) members shall come from
transport and motorist organization, which have been in existence and active
for the last five (5) years prior to this Act. They shall be appointed for the term
of two (2) years each by the President of the Philippines upon the

recommendation of the secretaries of the DPWH and the DOTC.

SECTION 2. Section 8 of Republic Act No, 8794 is hereby amended to read as

follows:

Section 8. Status of the Special Funds. — The four-(4) FIVE (5) special
funds established under this Act shall be distinct and separate from and in
addition in any appropriation authorized and granted yearly to the DPWH,
andthe DOTr AND THE DEP ED. To cover expenditures for the identified
objects of expenditures under this Act. Congress shall continue to
appropriate an amount in the General appropriations Act for road
maintenance of the DPWH: Provided, however, That any savings for each
year out of such appropriation shall revert to the General Fund. Any savings
from the special funds created herein shall accrue to these respective special

funds.

SECTION 3. Section 9 of Republic Act No. 8794 is hereby amended to read as

follows:

Section 9. Rules and Regulations. — The secretaries of the
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), aad the Department of
Transportation (DOTr) AND THE DEP ED shall jointly promulgate within thirty

(30) days from the effectivity of this Act, the rules and regulation to implement


and carry out the intent, objectives, purposes, and provisions of this Act,
including such structural and procedural in the systems and agencies
concerned as may be necessary to ensure the prudent, wise, effective, and
efficient utilization of the special funds established under Republic Act No
8794: Provided, That the secretary of the DPWH shall prepare the portion of
their implementing rules and regulation pertaining to the Special Road
Support Fund, the Special Local Road Fund, and the Special Road Safety
Fund, and the Secretary of the DOTr shall prepare the portion of the
implementing rules and regulation pertaining to the collection of the MVUC
staffed under Section 3 of this Act and on the disposition of the monies
acquiring to the Special Pollution Control Fund, Provided further, THAT
THE SECRETARY OF THE DEP ED SHALL PREPARE THE PORTION OF
THEIR IMPLEMENTING RULES AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO

THE SPECIAL DRIVER'S EDUCATION FUND.

SECTION 4. Repealing Clause - All laws, decrees, executive orders, letters of

instructions, rules and regulations, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with this Act

are hereby repealed, amended, or modified accordingly

SECTION 5. Separability Clause - If any provision of this act is judicially

declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining provisions of this Act not affected

thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect.

SECTION 6. Effectivity Clause — This act shall take effect fifteen (15) days

following its publication in two (2) newspaper of general circulation

Approved