FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC 
OF THE PHILIPPINES 
Second Regular Session 
SENATE 
S.B.No. 2947 
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Introduced by Senator Vicente C, Sotto III 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The incentives bill for athletes and coaches that was enacted into law 
(Republic Act No. 9064) is a step in the right direction, but it does not go far 
enough, because only those achievements in quadrennial competitions like the 
Olympics, quadrennial World Championships and the Asian Games which is also 
quadrennial are rewarded. 
Despite public clamour, past achievements in annual and biennial 
competitions were omitted. Non-Olympic sports like bowling, golf, billiards and 
chess as a rule, hold annual and biennial competitions. This where our sports 
heroes like Paeng Nepomuceno, Efren "Bata" Reyes, Dorothy Delasin and 
Eugene Torre and other deserving athletes, have brought honours to the country. 
It must be emphasized that these athletes have no Olympics to look 
forward to through no fault of their own. Despite this, these non-Olympic athletes 
have been recognized and honoured locally and internationally. The Bowling 
World Cup for example, has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World 
Records and the International Hall of Fame in St. Louis, Missouri, U.SA Locally, 
the Philippine Sports Association (PSA) honoured Paeng Nepomuceno as 
"Athletes of the Year" for an unprecedented five (5) times for annual 
achievements in bowling. Efren "Bata" Reyes and Dorothy Delasin were also 
named "Athletes of the Year" for annual competitions in billiards and golf 
respectively. Both Nepomuceno and Reyes are recipients of the prestigious 
"Legion of Honor" medal. These same athletes were also honoured by 
resolutions emanating from both Houses of Congress. 
There should be no discrimination in sports. Fairness and equality must be 
applied to our deserving athletes, whose victories in annual and biennial world 
and Asian spdrts championships inspire and unify our people no less than 
medals won in quadrennial competitions. 
When the matches involving Filipino champions like Reyes and Francisco 
"Django" Bustamante are featured "live" by an international television network like 
ESPN, as was the case for several days during the World Pool Championships in 
Cardiff, Wales in July 1999 (when Reyes won the tournament) and in July 2002 
(when Bustamante placed second), hundreds of millions of viewers all over the 
world get to see that the Filipino is courteous and friendly, and has the inborn 
intelligence, resilience, and courage to cope with the most difficult and 
challenging of situations. The goodwill generated for the Filipino people is 
immeasurable. The athletes must therefore be rewarded for their achievements, 
as proposed in this Act, and all the more so because their trips abroad and the 
favourable media coverage have been at no cost to our government. 


This piece of legislation likewise seeks to recognize the equally relevant 
feat of differently-abled Filipino national athletes who have also been reaping 
glory for the country in international sporting tours. 
Unknown to many, our 
differently-abled athletes have been contributing their share of delivering honors 
to the Philippines through their competitive participation in the ASEAN Para 
Games which is the equivalent of the SEA Games, FESPIC Games which is the 
parallel of the Asian Games, and the elite Paralympic Games which is the highest 
international sporting event for athletes with disabilities being held simultaneously 
with the World Olympics. 
I believe that the honors delivered to us by the regular members of the 
national athletes and national athletes with disabilities should have no distinction, 
and thus, be accorded with equal monetary and non-monetary benefits extended 
by RA 9064 to all our sports heroes. 
Moreover, this bill shall expand the coverage of the existing incentives 
already enjoyed by the athletic achievers by adding health insurance benefits to 
all medalists and lifetime pension to retiring gold medal achievers. 
The amendments as proposed in this piece of legislation will make our 
athletes feel, regardless of their physical traits, the importance of the pride and 
glory they earned for the country every time they successfully carry with them the 
colors of our nation. 
The Congress of the Philippines should therefore approve this Act, which 
will reassure the Filipino people that their government continues to desire for 
them many benefits that accrue from active participation in sports, and will 
encourage more and more of them to develop into champions who will do the 
country proud and strengthen the bonds that unify the nation. 
Early passage of this bill into law is ther f, re earnestly requ_ested. 


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SENATE 
S. No. 2947 
Introduced by Sen. Vicente C. Sotto III 
AN ACT 
TO STRENGTHEN THE CASH AND OTHER NON-MONETARY BENEFITS AND 
INCENTIVES 
TO 
NATIONAL 
ATHLETES, 
COACHES 
AND 
TRAINERS, 
AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF REPUBLIC ACT 
NUMBER NINETY HUNDRED AND SIXTY FOUR, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS 
"NATIONAL ATHLETES, COACHES AND TRAINERS BENEFITS AND INCENTIVES 
ACT OF 2001" AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. 
Section 3 of Republic Act No. 9064, otherwise known as "National 
Athletes, Coaches and Trainers Benefits and Incentives Act of 2001" is hereby 
amended to read as follows: 
"Sec. 3. Definition of Terms. - For purposes of this Act, the following terms shall 
be defined as follows: 
(a) National Athletes - shall refer to athletes who are Filipino citizens, 
members of the national training pool, recognized and accredited by the 
Philippine Olympic Committee 
(POC) 
and 
the 
Philippine 
Sports 
Commission (PSC), INCLUDING ATHLETES WITH DISABILITIES 
(AWD) WHO ARE RECOGNIZED AND ACCREDITED BY THE 
NATIONAL PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE PHILIPPINES (NPC PHIL) AND 
THE PSC and who have represented the country in international 
competitions. IT SHALL ALSO REFER TO ATHLETES WHO ARE NOT 
MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL TRAINING POOL BUT WHO HAVE 
OTHERWISE REPRESENTED THE COUNTRY IN INTERNATIONAL 
COMPETITIONS; 
(b) National Coaches and Trainers - shall refer to coaches and trainers OF 
NJlITIONAL ATHLETES, who are Filipino citizens, members of the 
neltional coaches and trainers pool, recognized and accredited by the PSC 
AND POC, OR THE PSC AND NPC PHIL. IN THE CASE OF AWD 
COACHES AND TRAINERS who have represented the country as official 
coaches and trainers to national athletes in international competitions; 
(c) International Competitions -
shall refer to international sports 
competitions which 
are sanctioned 
by the 
International Olympic 
Committee (IOC), INTERNATIONAL SPORTS FEDERATIONS (ISFs) OR 
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INTERNATIONAL GOVERNING BODIES FOR THE SPORTS BEING 
PARTICIPATED IN BY NO LESS THAN FORTY FIVE (45) COUNTRIES, 
AND BY THE INTERNATIONAL PARAL YMPIC COMMITTEE (IPC), 
INCLUDING 
OTHER INTERNATIONAL 
SPORTS 
COMPETITIONS 
RECOGNIZED BY THE PSC IN CLOSE COORDINATION WITH AND 
APPROVAL BY POC AND NPC PHIL." 
x 
x 
x 
SEC 2. Section 4 of the same Act is hereby further amended to read as follows: 
"Sec 4. Benefits and Privileges for National Athletes, Coaches and Trainers. -
Any national athlete, coach and trainer AS DEFINED HEREIN AND who is 
currently registered as such before the PSC ANDIOR NPC PHIL shall be entitled 
to the following: 
(a) the grant of twenty percent (20%) discount from all establishments 
relative to the utilization of transportation services, hotels, and other 
lodging establishments, restaurants and recreation centers and purchase 
of medicine and sports equipment anywhere in the country FOR THE 
EXCLUSIVE USE OR ENJOYMENT OF THE NATIONAL ATHLETE, 
COACH AND TRAINER; 
(b) minimum of twenty percent (20%) discount on admission fees charged 
by theaters, cinema houses and concert halls, circuses, carnivals, and 
other similar places of culture, leisure and amusement FOR THE 
EXCLUSIVE 
USE 
AND 
ENJOYMENT 
OF 
THE 
NATIONAL 
ATHELETE,COACH AND TRAINER; 
(c) free medical and dental consultations in private or GOVERNMENT 
[public] hospitals and similar establishments anywhere in the country [and 
medical insurance program to be provided by the Philippine Health 
Insurance Corporation (PHIC) ]; 
(C-1) FREE COVERAGE IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE 
PROGRAM 
OF 
THE 
PHILIPPINE 
HEALTH 
INSURANCE 
CORPORATION (PHIC) THRU THE SPONSORED PROGRAM OF THE 
PSC; 
(d) 
X 
X 
X 
(e) 
X 
X 
X 
(f) 
X 
X 
X 
Such 
privately-owned 
establishments 
shall 
enjoy 
tax 
[credits] 
DEDUCTIONS equivalent to the discounts extended to the NATIONAL 
athletes, COACHES AND TRAINERS." 
X 
X 
X 
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SEC 3. Section 5 of the same Act is hereby further amended to read as follows: 
"Sec. 5. Scholarships. - a national athlete who wins GOLD in an international 
competition EXCEPT SEAGAMES OR ASEAN PARA GAMES or any qualified 
member of his[1] OR her immediate family within the fourth civil degree of 
consanguinity shall be entitled to scholarship benefits in the form of tuition fees in 
state colleges and universities in order to complete a college or university 
degree. The winning national athlete shall likewise be given priority in the 
availment of state college and university scholarship grants." 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
X 
SEC 4. Section 6 of the same Act is hereby further amended to read as follows: 
"Section 6. Retirement Benefits. - Any national athlete, coach and trainer who 
wins GOLD in an international competition or has coached and trained such 
winning national athlete, [shall receive a lump sum amount equivalent to twenty-
five percent (25%) of his/her total cash incentives computed from the start of 
his/her active sports career as a member of the national training pool or national 
coaches and trainers pool to the last day of retirement from active competition or 
training as certified by the PSC. Such lump sum amount shall be extended sixty 
(60) days after the filing of the retirement papers.] 
EXCEPT SEAGAMES OR 
ASEAN PARA GAMES, UPON REACHING THE AGE OF FIFTY-FIVE (55), 
SHALL RECEIVE THE FOLLOWING RETIREMENT BENEFITS: 
A. FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS - A LIFETIME MONTHLY PENSION OF 
AT LEAST TWENTY THOUSAND PESOS 
(P20,OOO.OO) FOR 
INDIVIDUAL WINNER; 
B. FOR TEAM EVENTS - A LIFETIME MONTHLY PENSION OF AT 
LEAST FIFTEEN THOUSAND PESOS (P15,OOO.OO) FOR EACH 
TEAM MEMBER. 
PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT FOR NATONAL ATHLETES, COACHES 
AND TRAINERS WHO WIN IN BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM 
EVENTS, THE RETIREMENT BENEFIT FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS 
SHALL APPLY. 
PROVIDED 
FURTHER, 
THAT, 
ATHLETES, 
COACHES 
AND 
TRAINERS WHO ARE STILL ACTIVELY EMPLOYED AT THE TIME 
THEY REACH THE AGE OF FIFTY-FIVE (55) AND HAVE AVAILED OF 
THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS UNDER THIS ACT MAY CONTINUE 
WITH SUCH EMPLOYMENT. 
PROVIDED, FINALLY, THAT THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS UNDER 
THIS ACT SHALL BE SEPARATE AND DISTINCT FROM THE 
MANDATORY RETIREMENT BENEFITS UNDER EXISTING LAWS. 
SEC 5. Section 7 of the same Act is hereby renumbered as Section 8 
SEC.G. Section 8 of the same Act is hereby further amended to read as follows: 
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"Sec. 9 [8]. Cash Incentives for National Athletes. - National athletes who win 
gold, silver and bronze medals in international competitions shall be entitled to 
cash awards in the following amounts: 
A. INDIVIDUAL EVENTS 
(a) For gold medalists: 
(1) 
Five 
million 
pesos 
(P5,000,000.00) 
for 
Olympic 
ANDIOR 
PARAL YMPIC Games; 
(2) 
Two million five hundred thousand pesos (P2,500,000.00) for 
[quadrennial] World Championships, WORLD CUP, WORLD 
GAMES OR WORLD LEVEL CHAMPIONSHIPS THAT DOES 
NOT INVOLVE THE USE OF HANDICAPS AND OFFER PRIZE 
MONEY; 
(3) 
One million pesos (P1,000,000.00) for Asian Games ANDIOR 
ASIAN PARA GAMES; and 
(4) 
One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) for Southeast Asian 
Games (SEA Games) ANDIOR ASEAN PARA GAMES. 
(b) For silver medalists: 
(1) 
Two million five hundred thousand pesos (P2,500,000.00) for 
Olympic ANDIOR PARAL YMPIC Games; 
(2) 
One million 
pesos (P1,000,000.00) for [quadrennial] World 
Championships, WORLD CUP, WORLD GAMES OR WORLD 
LEVEL CHAMPIONSHIPS THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE THE USE 
OF HANDICAPS AND OFFER PRIZE MONEY; 
(3) 
Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) for Asian Games 
ANDIOR ASIAN PARA GAMES; and 
(4) 
Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00) for Southeast Asian Games 
(SEA Games) ANDIOR ASEAN PARA GAMES 
(c) For bronze medalists: 
(1) 
One 
million 
pesos 
(p1,000,000.00) 
for 
Olympic 
ANDIOR 
PARAL YMPIC Games; 
(2) 
Five hundred thousand pesos (P500,000.00) [quadrennial] World 
Championships, WORLD CUP, WORLD GAMES OR WORLD 
LEVEL CHAMPIONSHIPS THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE THE USE 
OF HANDICAPS AND OFFER PRIZE MONEY; 
(3) 
[One hundred thousand pesos (P100,OOO.00)] TWO HUNDRED 
FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS (P250,OOO) 
for Asian Games 
ANDIOR ASIAN PARA GAMES; and 
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(4) 
[Ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00)] TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND 
PESOS (P25,000) 
for Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) 
ANDIOR ASEAN PARA GAMES. 
B. TEAM EVENTS 
x 
x 
x 
For competitions with five (5) or more participants per team, [the team 
shall receive twice the cash awards for individual winners, to be divided 
equally among the team members actually present during the competition] 
EACH TEAM MEMBER SHALL RECEIVE CASH AWARD EQUAL TO 
THE SHARE OF EACH TEAM MEMBER FOR COMPETITIONS WITH 
FOUR (4) PARTICIPANTS" 
Provided, That, for demonstration and exhibition sports events in the 
Olympic 
Games OR PARAL YMPIC GAMES, winning national athletes 
shall receive fifty percent (50%) of the cash awards for Olympic medalists 
as herein provided; 
[Provided .. further, That for SEA Games monetary incentives shall be 
given starting 2001 to the winning athletes or teams who have equaled or 
surpassed the existing game records or the previous placings in non-
measurable events]. 
SEC. 7. Section 9 of the same Act is hereby further amended to read as follows: 
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"Sec. 10 [9]. Benefits, Privileges and I/ncentives for Past Achievers. - Any 
national athlete who, prior to the enactm'ent of this Act, had won gold, silver or 
bronze medals in intemational competitions except SEA Games OR ASEAN 
PARA GAMES, shall be entitled to the benefits and privileges provided under 
Section 4 and fifty percent (50%) of the cash incentives provided under Section 8 
of this Act. Such incentives shall be the difference between the cash award 
received 
under 
Administrative 
Order 
No. 
352 
OR 
FROM 
OTHER 
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES and the cash award provided under this Act. 
SEC 8. Section 10 of the same Act is hereby further amended to read as follows: 
"Sec. 11 [10]. Incentives for Coaches and Trainers. - Coaches and trainers shall 
also be entitled to cash awards if they have personally trained and rendered 
service 
to 
the 
athletes 
or teams 
WHO 
WIN 
IN 
INTERNATIONAL 
COMPETITIONS at least [one (1) year] SIX (6) MONTHS prior to the 
international competition. Certification to this effect by the individual athlete or 
TEAM MANAGER FOR TEAM EVENTS shall be in writing, DULY ATTESTED 
BY THEIR RESPECTIVE NATIONAL SPORTS ASSOCIATIONS (NSAs). 
X 
X 
X 
There is hereby created a body to be known as the Philippine Coaches 
Accreditation Council that shall accredit and recognize coaches and trainers. It 
shall be composed, among others, of representatives from the PSC, POC, NPC 
PHIL and the academic community, preferably a professor in physical education 
or sports science." 
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SEC. 9. A new section Section 11-A is hereby inserted to read as follows: 
"SEC ii-A. AVAILMENT OF BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES - THE ABOVE-
MENTIONED BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES SHALL BE AVAILED BY 
ATHLETES, COACHES AND TRAINERS UPON PRESENTATION OF AN 
IDENTIFICATION CARD, RENEWABLE EVERY YEAR, TO BE ISSUED BY 
THE PSC ANDIOR NPC PHIL. 
PROVIDED THAT, IN CASE THE ATHLETES ARE NON-MEMBERS OF THE 
NATIONAL TRAINING POOL, THE IDENTIFICATION CARD SHALL ONLY BE 
ISSUED 
TO 
WINNING 
ATHLETES 
WHO 
REMAIN 
ACTIVE IN INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION. PROVIDED FURTHER, THAT 
ATHLETES WITH DISABILITIES SHALL NOT AVAIL OF SAID BENEFITS 
AND PRIVILEGES IN COMBINATION WITH SIMILAR BENEFITS AND 
PRIVILEGES UNDER RA 9442 OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE MAGNA 
CARTA FOR DISABLED PERSONS." 
SEC. 10. Section 11 of the same Act is hereby renumbered as Section 12. 
SEC. 11. A new Section 13 of the same Act is hereby inserted to read as follows: 
"SEC 13. Penalties. -
(A) ANY BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT VIOLATING SECTION 4 (a), (b) and 
(e) OF THIS ACT SHALL SUFFER THE FOLLOWING PENALTIES: 
(1) FOR THE FIRST VIOLATION, A FINE OF NOT LESS THAN FIFTY 
THOUSAND PESOS (P50,000) BUT NOT EXCEEDING ONE HUNDRED 
THOUSAND PESOS (P100,OOO) OR IMPRISONMENT OF NOT LESS 
THAN SIX (6) MONTHS BUT NOT MORE THAN TWO (2) YEARS, OR 
BOTH AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COURT; AND 
(2) FOR ANY SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION, A 
FINE OF NOT LESS 
THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS (P100,000) BUT NOT 
EXCEEDING TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PESOS (P200,000) OR 
IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT LESS THAN TWO (2) YEARS BUT NOT 
MORE THAN SIX (6) YEARS, OR BOTH. 
(B) ANY NATIONAL ATHLETE, COACH, TRAINER OR ANY PERSON WHO 
VIOLATES THE PRIVILEGES GRANTED HEREIN SHALL BE PUNISHED 
WITH IMPRISONMENT OF NOT LESS THAN SIX (6) MONTHS OR A FINE OF 
NOT LESS THAN FIVE THOUSAND PESOS (P5,OOO), BUT NOT MORE THAN 
FIFTY THOUSAND PESOS (P50,000), OR BOTH, AT THE DISCRETION OF 
THE COURT. PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH VIOLATION SHALL NOT 
DEPRIVE THE CONCERNED NATIONAL ATHLETE, COACH OR TRAINER 
FROM RECEIVING THE BENEFITS AND PRIVILEDGES GRANTED UNDER 
THIS ACT. 
(C) IF THE VIOLATOR IS A CORPORATION, PARTNERSHIP OR ANY 
JURIDICAL PERSON, THE PENALTY SHALL BE IMPOSED UPON THE 
PRESIDENT, OWNER OR ANY RESPONSIBLE OFFICER. 
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(D) IF THE VIOLATOR IS AN ALIEN OR A FOREIGNER, HE SHALL BE 
DEPORTED IMMEDIATELY AFTER SERVICE OF SENTENCE WITHOUT 
FURTHER DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS. 
UPON FILING OF AN APPROPRIATE COMPLAINT, AND AFTER DUE 
NOTICE AND HEARING, THE PROPER AUTHORITIES MAY ALSO CAUSE 
THE CANCELLATION OR REVOCATION OF THE BUSINESS PERMIT, 
PERMIT TO OPERATE, FRANCHISE AND OTHER SIMILAR PRIVILEGES 
GRANTED TO ANY BUSINESS ENTITY THAT FAILS TO ABIDE BY THE 
PROVISIONS OF THE LAW." 
SEC. 12. Funding. - The amount necessary for the implementation of the cash 
incentives and retirement benefits under this Act shall be taken from the net cash 
income of the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), to be 
remitted directly as a special account to the National Sports Development Fund (NSDF) 
of the PSC. This is in addition to the regular income share of the PSC pursuant to 
Republic Act No. 6847. 
Such amount as may be necessary to carry out the other provisions of this Act 
shall be included in the budget of the PSC in the General Appropriations Act of the year 
following its enactment into law and thereafter. 
SEC. 13. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The PSC, in coordination with the 
POC, NPC PHIL, DEPED, CHED, TESDA, DOF, BIR, and other concerned agencies 
shall promulgate and issue the Implementing Rules and Regulations within sixty (60) 
days upon approval of this Act. 
SEC 14. Congressional Oversight Committee - A Congressional Oversight Committee 
is hereby created to be composed of the Chairs of the Senate Committees on Games, 
Amusement and Sports and the House of Representatives Committee on youth and 
Sports Development, and two (2) members each from of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives who shall be designated by the Senate President and the Speaker of 
the House of Representatives: Provided, That one (1) of the two (2) Senators and one 
(1) of the two (2) House Members shall be nominated by the respective Minority 
Leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives. 
The oversight committee is hereby mandated to oversee the implementation of 
this Act for a period of five (5) years. For this purpose, the oversight committee shall set 
the guidelines and overall framework for the monitoring of the implementation of this Act 
and shall adopt its internal rules of procedures. 
SEC 15. Separability Clause. - If any provision or part of this Act, or the application 
thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining 
sections of this Act or the application of such provision or part hereof to other persons or 
circumstance shall remain in full force and effect. 
SEC 16. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, orders, issuances, rules and regulations 
or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, 
amended or modified accordingly. 
SEC. 17. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at 
least two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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