Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
‘Quezon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No, _9230

Turroduced by Reps, TEDDY A. CASINO, EMMI A. DE. JESUS, NERI JAVIER
COLMENARES, LUZVIMINDA C, ILAGAN, RAFAEL V. MARIANO,
RAYMOND V. PALATINO and ANTONIO L. TINIO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill aims to upgrade the minimum salary grade level of public nurses to provide them
with yust compensation and ro encourage more health workers to work in government
hospitals instead of going abroad.

In 2002, when Congress passed the Philippine Nursing Act or Republic Act No, 9173,
Public qurses all over the country thought it was to be a reprieve from their lung sentence of
mbhumanely low wages. However, year after year, it was proven to be an empry promise, with
the government failing to allocate funds for its implementation.

Amid the clamor of health groups and the contiumg increase in the daily cost of living,
government failed to provide for public aurses. This resuleed in registered nurses seeking
jobs abroad or in unrelated industries,

Despite the mushrooming of nursing schools and the large number of graduates, there is a
shortage of working nurses in the country.

According to the Alliance of Health Workers (AHW), “Nurses who ate supposed 10 be
given at lease P24,887, the wage allotted for salary grade 15 as provided for by the Nursing
-\ct of 2002, receives only P15,649 or the amount being received by those in salary grade 1),

The SSL3 of the Joint Resolution No. 4 claimed to respond ro the state health workers’ plea
but it instead downgraded the salaries,

Jossel Ebesate, president of the AHW, said “Te’s like we also lost out on che substandal
Provisions of the Philippine Nuzsing Act (because of the passage of the SSL3). The
Department of Health and the Department af Budget Manayement told us that, given the
salary increases stipulared in SSL-3, what we'll get would be as good as what's in the Nursing:


Act. But the salary grade of public bospital nusses will only tise up to SG-11, even as the
‘Nursing sAct suipulated chat it should be SG-15.”

‘Vo rectify what has been a gross neglect of the welfare of our nurses, we propose the re-
upgrading of the minimum salary grade level of public aurses from salary grade 11 to salary
grade 15 and those occupying higher positions be adjusted accordingly

In this light, the passage of this bill is earnestly sougbt.

Approved,
Tae & Cure Abe
TEDDY A. CASINO EMMI A. DI ‘JESUS
Bayan Muna Party-list Gabriela Women’s Parry

LUZVIMINDA C. ILAGAN
Gabriela Women’s Party

RAYM V. PALATINO
Anakpawis Party-list Kabdtaan Party-list

ANTONIOT. TINIO

ACT Teachers Party-lis



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL. No. 5230

Inuoduced by Reps. TEDDY A. CASINO, EMMI A. DE JESUS, NERI JAVIER
COLMENARES, LUZVIMINDA C. ILAGAN, RAFAEL V. MARIANO,
RAYMOND V. PALATINO and ANTONIO L. TINIO

AN ACT
UPGRADING THE MINIMUM SALARY GRADE OF GOVERNMENT NURSES
FROM SALARY GRADE 11 TO 15

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

SECTION 1. Short Title, Vhis Act shall be known as “The Government Nurses’ Salary
Upgrading Act of 2011.”

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. \t is the Government’s concem and responsibility to
provide adequate remuneration for health workers to enbance general welfare and to attract
and retain its righrful share of talents with the end in view of fulfilling the state policy of
providing essential health services to all Filipinos.

SECTION 3. Raising of the Minimum Salary Grade Level. The present mnimum salary
yrade of government nurses (Nurse D) shall be upgraded from Salary Grade 11 to Salary
Grade 15. Salary grade levels of thase occupying higher positions shall be adjusted

SECTION 4. Coverage, Uhis Act shall cover all aurses ip public hospitals and other health
insrieations, whether ationally or locally funded.

SECTION 5. Rules and Regulations. The Deparment of Health and the Department of

Budget and Management shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations of the
provisions of this Act.

SECTION 6, Appropriation, The Government shall appropriate such amount as may be
necessary to carry out the objectives of this Act. Initial funds required for the
implementation of this Act shall be sourced from the savings of the Executive Branch of the
government and other possible sources that may be determined by the Office of the


President. The subsequent funds oeeded shall be included in the General Appropriations Act
for the year following the implementacion of this Act.

SECTION 7, Conscinutionatity. Sbould any provision of this Act be declared invalid or
unconstitutional, the validity or constituonality of the other provisions shall not be affected
thereby.

SECTION 8. Repealing Clause. All laws, decrees, letters of instructions, resolutions,
orders, ordinances or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are
hereby repealed, amended, or modified accordingly

SECTION 9. Efe ‘This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication ia
nwo (2) newspapers of general circulation,

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