Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

NINETEENTHCONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 2585

Introduced by: REPRESENTATIVE EDWIN L. OLIVAREZ

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

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Section 13, Article II of the Constitution, on the Declaration

of Principles and State Policies, provides: "The State recognizes
the vital role of the youth in nation-building and shall promote
and protect their physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual, and
social well-being. xxxxx”. Thus, from their infancy and in their
formative years and throughout their childhood, children should
be provided sufficient protection by the State from all forms of
abuse, exploitation, neglect and discrimination and any potential
crime that would endanger them should be prevented by the
State. In further complementing the protection of children, it is
also stated in Section 3, Article XV of the Constitution: “The
State shall defend: xxxxx (2) The right of children to assistance,
including proper care and nutrition, and special protection from
all forms of neglect, abuse, cruelty, exploitation, and other
conditions prejudicial to their development;” xxxxx and “(4) The
right of families or family associations to participate in the
planning and implementation of policies and programs that
affect them.”

This legislative measure is precisely intended for the
protection of children from all other conditions prejudicial to
their development, among which is the potential danger posed by
foreign sex predators in conflict with child oriented laws, and by
indicted or convicted sex offenders, who enter Philippine
territorial jurisdiction and reside within our local communities.


Pursuant to Sec. 29 of Commonwealth Act 613, there is an
enumeration of the classes of alien that are specifically excluded
from entry into the Philippines. Unfortunately, the excluded
classes of aliens do not accommodate the categories of aliens
that are) specifically targeted under this proposed bill. Under the
said law, the mandate of allowing the ingress of aliens into the
country is jointly enforced by the Department of Foreign Affairs
through the issuance of entry visas and by the Bureau of
Immigration through the approval and allowance of entry
documents, the power of which is to deny the issuance of visas
and the power to deny the entry of the foreigner into the country.

Als 30, pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 830 dated
November 27, 1975 and Letter of Implementation No. 47 dated
August 18, 1976 in relation to Book IV, Title III, Chapter 10, Sec.
31 of the Administrative Code of 1987 (E.O. 292), the power and
authority to deport undesirable aliens is within the exclusive
jurisdiction of the Immigration Board of Commissioners presided
over by the Commissioner of Immigration. Furthermore, Book
Ill, Title I, Chapter 1, Section 1, of E.O. 292, the Commissioner
of the ‘Bureau of Immigration possesses the administrative
authority to deport undesirable aliens who are in violation of
immigration laws, rules and regulations is concerned. It
becomes peremptory, therefore, to establish new administrative
procedures that will enable the Commissioner of Immigration to
promptly address the issue of undesirable aliens who, because of
their well established nefarious activities in the Philippines, pose
a clear and present danger to public safety, public health, and
national interest in accordance with the proposed bill.

Our present system does not treat the prohibition of ingress
of, and travel by, foreign citizens within our country as a priority
concern over the protection of our own citizens and children.
Thus, there is a moral and legal necessity to prevent any further
humiliation to the foreign national who has derogatory criminal,
civil and administrative record on any sexual misconduct
involving minors, as well as the equally moral and legal necessity
to protect minors under the jurisdiction of the Philippines. Such
should warrant legal grounds to prevent the issuance of
passport visa documents and his entry altogether or even when



issued passport visa documents, to prevent the ingress of such
foreign citizen into the country.

Hence, the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly
sought,

EDWIN L. OLIV.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

NINETEENTHCONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No._ 2985

Introduced by: REPRESENTATIVE EDWIN L. OLIVAREZ

AN ACT PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM CHILD SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE, CHILD TRAFFICKING, CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY, AND VIOLENT CRIME ON CHILDREN BY
PROHIBITING THE INGRESS OF FOREIGN SEX OFFENDERS
AND 'S IN CONFLICT WITH CHILD PROTECTION LAWS;
PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR NON-COMPLIANCE
THEREWITH; AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

ART. I - TITLE, STATEMENT OF POLICY, AND DEFINITION
OF TERMS

Section 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the Ingress
Prohibition of Alien Sex Offenders of Children Act
(IPASOCA).

Section 2. Statement of Policy. - It is hereby declared the policy
and obligation of the State to ensure that sex-related and
specified offenses against minors with a sexual complexion are
eliminated through effective legislations and policies on the
prohibition of ingress into the country of alien nationals with
pending investigations, cases, indictments, or convictions
regarding such offenses to prevent future sex-related crimes


against minors. The paramount consideration, in all such cases,
is the best interests of the children concerned.

Section| 3. Objectives. - The purposes and objectives of this Act
are:
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a) To better serve and safeguard public interest, more
particularly the interests of children, by prohibiting the issuance
of passport visa documents and/or the ingress of child-sex
offenders, whether undergoing law enforcement or prosecutorial
investigation or judicial trial;

b) To engage the consulates, embassies or foreign affairs
divisions of other States in inter-State and inter-agency
cooperation and coordination in utilizing their respective
national database and providing relevant information and data
therein towards the prohibition of such child-sex offenders from
ingress into the Philippines and vice versa;

c) To establish new operational rules and guidelines for the
Consular Offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the
Bureau of Immigration in the interest of public safety, public
health and/or national interest; and

d) To encourage the protection of children and society by
instituting gatekeeping mechanisms at the Department of
Foreign Affairs and the Bureau of Immigration in checking the
background and derogatory criminal records through shared
relevant information and data on child-sex offenders and
preventing their ingress.

Section 4. Definition of Terms. - As used in this Act, the terms:

a) The term "Philippines" means all the territory and waters
which are subject to the jurisdiction of the Government of the
Philippines, including places wherein the Philippines exercises
extra-territorial jurisdiction;

b) The term “Child" or “Minor” means an individual who has
not attained the age of eighteen (18) years;


c) The term "alien" means any person not a citizen of the
Philippines;

d) The term “Sex offense’ means a criminal, civil, or
administrative offense that has an element involving a sexual
act, sexual contact, sexually related or sexually-oriented act with
a minor, for which an alien is being investigated or has been
convicted, and which may have an equivalent offense under the
Revised Penal Code or under special laws of the Philippines;

e) The term “sex offender’ (“SO”) means any alien, who has
been convicted under any national, state or domestic law,
whether in his country or otherwise, of any crime involving any
sex-related offense or any specified offense of a sexual nature or
complexion involving children;

f) The term “alien in conflict with child protection laws”
(‘AICPL?) means any alien, who has a pending case, whether
administrative, civil, or criminal in complexion, before any
police, prosecutorial, quasi-judicial or judicial authorities,
involving any sex-related offense or any specified offense of a
sexual nature or complexion involving children;

g) The term "immigrant" means any alien departing from any
place outside the Philippines destined for the Philippines, other
than a non-immigrant;

h) The term ‘immigration laws" shall refer to the
Immigration Act and any other law hereafter enacted relating to
the entry of aliens into the Philippines, and their exclusion,
deportation, and repatriation therefrom;

i) The words "the President" refers to the President of the
Philippines.

ART II, COVERAGE OF ALIENS EXCLUDED FROM INGRESS

Section 5. EXCLUDED ALIENS. - The following foreign nationals
or aliens may be excluded from any form of travel, visit, entry or
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passage through the Philippines or any area within which the
Philippines exercises jurisdiction:

a) ny alien who has committed, or participated in the
commission of, any violation of national, state or domestic law,
whether in his/her state of citizenship or in any state or
territorial jurisdiction outside the Philippines, related to any sex
offense, sex-related offense, or any specified offense presumably
of a sexual nature or complexion involving children;

b) Any alien who has committed any offense by reason of
his/her omission of an obligation to protect or rescue a minor in
violation of any national, state or domestic law, related to any
sex offense, sex-related offense, or any specified offense
presumably of a sexual nature or complexion involving children,
whether in his state of citizenship or any state or territorial
jurisdiction outside the Philippines;

c) Any alien, who is in conflict with the law, whether it is in
the law of the state of his citizenship or in any other state or
territorial jurisdiction outside the Philippines, if he has a
pends case, whether administrative, civil, or criminal in
complexion, before any police, prosecutorial, quasi-judicial or
piel authorities, related to any sex offense, sex-related
offense or any specified offense of a sexual nature or complexion
involving children;

d) Any alien, who is in conflict with the law, more particularly
for violations of law or for acts in other states or territorial
jurisdictions, which would constitute criminal offenses in the
Philipines if it had been committed in the Philippines, e.g. for
violations of any law outside the Philippines which may
constitute violations of The Child and Youth Welfare Code (PD
603 as amended by EO 91); the Code of Muslim Personal Laws
(PD 1083); the Family Code; the Special Protection for Children
Against Child Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act (RA
7610); |the law on the prohibition of Child Labor (RA 7658); the
Death Penalty Act (RA 7659 as amended); the Inter-Country
Adoption Act of 1995 (RA 8043); the Domestic Adoption Act of
1998 (RA 8552); the Anti-Rape Law of 1997 (RA 8353); the law
on the prohibition of Hazardous Child Labor (RA 9231); the Anti-
Violence Against Women and their Children Act (RA 9262); the



Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act (RA 9208 as amended by RA
10364); the Anti-Child Pornography Act (RA 9775); The Anti-
Photo and Video Voyeurism Act (RA 9995); for violations of
related provisions of the Revised Penal Code; for violations of
related |international criminal laws; and for violations of such
other related and/or subsequent laws which cover criminal acts
involving sex offenses, sex-related offenses, and specified
offenses against minors.

e) Any alien whose name is included in the Sex Offenders
Registry, Watchlist or Lookout Bulletin for any sex offense, or
any such similar data base, of any country outside the
Philippit es.

Section 6. Alien Minors Accused of Sex Offenses. — All alien
minors, 15 years old and above, being investigated for, indicted,
or convicted for sex offenses under this Act shall not be exempt
from coverage hereunder.

Section 7. Diplomats are not exempt from provisions herein.
— No diplomat, ambassador, consular officer, or official
representing the country or State or the United Nations or any of
their offices, branches, or organizational structures to which
he/she belongs shall be exempt from coverage hereunder.

Section 8. Consensual Sexual Conduct. - An offense involving
consensual sexual conduct is not a sex offense for the purposes
of this Act if the victim was an adult; unless the victim was a
child at the time of the commission of the offense.

ART, III. - POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT
OFFICES:

Section 9. General Functions of Related Government Offices.
- The Department of Foreign Affairs or Bureau of Immigration,
whether through its Secretary or Commissioner, or through the
office, agency or committee they authorize, shall have the
following additional functions:


1) omulgate rules and regulations, as well as Department
and/or Administrative Orders, Memorandum Circulars, and ail
such inter-Department and intra-Department Instructions and
Orders, including occasional amendments thereof, as may be
necessary for the effective implementation of this Act;

2) omulgate within its rules and regulations, including
occasional amendments thereof, a detailed list, enumeration,
and registration of all sex offenders, and all aliens in conflict
with the law under this Act, and the counterpart sex offenses
and specified offenses against minors for which they are or have
been held accountable;

3) Promulgate an enumeration of various child-oriented
protective legislations of various countries in which their citizens
or permanent residents seek entry into the Philippines, which
have equivalent coverage under Philippine legislations, among
which should be specific provisions of the Revised Penal Code,
special laws, and subsequent laws thereto;

4) Monitor and oversee the strict implementation of this Act
within their agency or office jurisdiction;

5) Coordinate the programs, projects, rules and regulations,
including all possible Administrative or Department Orders and
Circulars of the various member agencies to effectively address
the issues and problems attendant to the registration of sex
offenders and notification to those concerned;

6) Secure from any Department, Bureau, Office, Agency or
Instrumentality of the Government or from NGOs and other civic
organizations such assistance as may be needed to effectively
implement this Act;

7) Formulate a shared governmental and inter-governmental
information system, including the Interpol, for the notification of
the concerned states and other jurisdictions regarding convicted
sex offenders and aliens in conflict with the law under this Act,
and their mandatory registration under immigration laws, as
well as to ensure that the proper immigration agencies and their
international counterparts conduct a continuing research and
study on the patterns and scheme of registration of, and dealing


with, sex offenders and aliens in conflict with the law, which
shall form the basis for policy formulation and program
direction;

8) Formulate a “blacklist” registration for aliens under the
coverage of this Act, who have been excluded from being issued
a visa, or from ingress into the country;

9) Develop the mechanisms to ensure the timely, coordinated,
and effective response to the cases of registration of sex
offenders, notification and the failure thereof;

10) Recommend measures and undertake joint activities to
enhance cooperative efforts and mutual assistance among
foreign | countries through bilateral and/or multilateral
arrangements to promote the registration of sex offenders and
their notification to persons concerned;

11) Adopt measures and policies to protect the rights and
needs of children who are foreign nationals in the Philippines
and foreign NGOs caring for and protecting children;

12) Initiate training programs in identifying and providing the
necessary measures for intervention or assistance to victims or
NGOs protecting child victims of sex offenders; and

13) Exercise all the powers and perform such other functions
necessary to attain the purposes and objectives of this Act.

Section |10. No Familial Reintegration. - No alien sex offender
or alien in conflict with the law in accordance herewith, who is
being investigated, who has been indicted, or who has been
convicted of any criminal, civil, or administrative offense in
accordance with the excluded aliens, whether in his State of
citizenship, permanent residence, or any other territorial
jurisdiction, may demand ingress into the Philippines by virtue
of his being a parent, stepparent, adoptive parent, foster parent
of a Filipino child or being a common law spouse of a Filipino
child’s parent, cohabitant or sex partner of the Filipino child’s
parent. He shall be prohibited from ingress into the Philippines.


A Regional Trial Court shall not issue any such order for
family reintegration or for custody of children for any sex offense
or specified offense against a minor that may have been
committed by the aforementioned aliens.

A) POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF CONSULAR OFFICERS
B) FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS:

Section 11. Visa Issuances Governed by Regulations. - The
form and manner of applying for an immigration visa by a non-
citizen, whether for temporary visits, multiple entries or
permanent residence, and the form and validity of such
immigration visa shall be established by regulations to be validly
issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Section 12. Powers of a Consular Officer. - The examination of
aliens concerning their applications for visa and travel
documents to enter or reside in the Philippines shall be
performed by Consular Officers of the Department of Foreign
Affairs.

Consular Officers are also empowered to administer oaths, to
take and consider evidence concerning the application of any
alien to enter or reside in the Philippines.

In view thereof, Consular Officers are authorized to exclude any
alien not properly documented, any “undesirable alien” under
the coverage of the Immigration Act, and/or aliens hereby
specifically excluded as required by this Act and to assist in the
enforcement of immigration laws and regulations prescribed
thereunder.

Section 13. Power to require further documentation and
clearances. - Consular Officers may require clearance
certificates or any other necessary legal and/or judicial
document before issuing any valid travel documentation or visas
to alien applicants wishing to enter and/or reside in the
Philippines, when informed or apprised of any pending or
terminated case, whether criminal, civil, or administrative in
nature, from the appropriate authorities of the country of


citizenship or residence or any other foreign territorial
jurisdiction, where the alien was indicted, convicted, or may
have been held accountable for any sexual act, or sex-related or
sex-oriented criminal, civil, or administrative offense committed
against ¢ ‘hildren or minors.

Section 14. Power to deny passport visa and/or other travel
documents. - A Consular Officer may reject or deny the
issuance of a passport visa and/or other travel documents to an
applicant who fails to establish satisfactorily his status as an
alien without any conflict to any child-oriented protection
legislation, or whose entry into the Philippines would not be
contr: to the public safety, more particularly the safety of
children under coverage of this Act.

Section 15. Power to deny passport visa and/or other travel
documents on reasonable belief. - No immigration visa shall
be issued to an immigrant alien if the Consular Officer knows
from statements in the application therefor, from the papers
submitted therewith, or otherwise has reason to believe that said
alien is inadmissible under immigration laws.

Section |16. Additional Authority to Issue Prohibition Orders
for Ingress of Suspected and Convicted Sex Offenders and
‘Aliens in Conflict with the Law. — The Consular Officer, upon
a well-founded and reasonable determination based on available
and verifiable civilian, immigration, or military intelligence
reports,| is hereby authorized to order the prohibition of the
ingress or entry of any such alien sex offender or alien in conflict
with child protection laws into the Philippines or any place
where the Department of Foreign Affairs exercises its functions
and jurisdiction so as to guarantee the safety of children under
the coverage of this Act.

Section 17. Authority to Cancel Visa. - An immigration visa, or
a passport visa, or a reentry permit, obtained by fraud or willful
misrepresentation of fact concerning violations of law under this
Act shall be subject to cancellation by the issuing officer or by
the Board of Commissioners.

Section 18. Submission of Reports to the President. — The
Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs shall furnish the


Office of the President a quarterly report every year of excluded
aliens with their names, aliases, nationalities and the specific
grounds for their deportation under this Act. In compliance
therewith, the DFA Secretary may call upon, and require, the
Consular Officers for any such necessary reports and documents
therewith.

Section 19. Administrative Accountability of the Officials of
the Department of Foreign Affairs. - Officials from the
Department of Foreign Affairs and its consular officers, who
violates this Act by issuing a passport visa and/or any other
travel document that enables an excluded alien to enter
Philippine jurisdiction, shall be held administratively liable with
the pertinent penalty for Grave Misconduct under Civil Service
Laws and/or under the laws being enforced by the Office of the
Ombudsman.

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Any such official(s) shall also be held criminally liable for
violation herewith for a one to two year penalty of imprisonment,
ora fine of Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P 500,000.00).
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A) POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF IMMIGRATION OFFICERS
FROM
THE BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION:

Sete Powers of Immigration Officer. - The examination
of aliens concerning their right to enter or remain in the
Philippines shall be performed by Immigrant Inspectors.

Immigrant Inspectors are authorized to exclude any alien
not properly documented or cleared as required by this Act, and
to enforce the immigration laws and regulations prescribed
thereunder.

Immigrant Inspectors are also empowered to administer
oaths, to take and consider evidence concerning the right of any
alien to enter or reside in the Philippines, and to go aboard and
search for aliens on any vessel or other conveyance in which
they believe aliens are being brought into the Philippines.
Immigrant Inspectors shall have the power to arrest, without


warrant, any alien who in their presence or view is entering or is
still in the course of entering the Philippines in violation of this
Act, other child-related laws or regulations prescribed
thereunder.

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Section 21. Authority to Issue Prohibition Orders for Ingress
d and Convicted Sex Offenders and Aliens in
with the Law. — The Bureau of Immigration, upon a
ded and reasonable determination by the

the Philippines or any place where the Bureau of Immigration
exercises its functions and jurisdiction so as to guarantee the
safety of children under this Act.

Section 22. Prohibition of alien sex offenders and aliens in
conflict with the law. - Sex offenders with foreign conviction,
or other foreign nationals facing investigation and/or charges for
a sex offense or any specified offense against a minor, based on
information provided by a foreign embassy or a legally
recognized international entity or on authentic documents or
official web information, shall be prohibited from ingress by the
BI and will be issued an order to leave if already admitted into
the country.

Section |23. Authority to Issue Summary Deportation Orders.
— The Bureau of Immigration, through its Commissioner and/or
Associate Commissioner(s), or in their absence, the Acting
Commissioner of Immigration, is hereby authorized to issue and
effect a|Summary Deportation Order, if probable cause exists, if
any of the aliens enumerated under Section 5 hereof has been
able to obtain ingress into the Philippines or any of its areas of
territorial or extra-territorial jurisdiction, or is under a state of
arrest within any Philippine territorial or extra-territorial
jurisdiction. Said foreign national shall be ordered to leave
immediately and his visa and travel documents cancelled, with
his name included in the BI blacklist registry.

Section} 24. No Motion for Reconsideration from Summary
eat Orders. - If so admitted into the country already, a


foreign national who has been issued a Summary Deportation
Order may not file a Motion for Reconsideration therefrom.
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Section 25. Authority to Effect a Warrantless Arrest. —
Under the circumstances stated in the next preceding section,
the Bureau of Immigration, through its Chairman or Associate
Commissioner(s), or in their absence, the Acting Commissioner
of Immigration, is hereby authorized to effect a warrantless
arrest of any such aliens enumerated under Section 5 hereof if
probable cause exists, or if there is any legal or valid request
from any State with diplomatic relations with the Philippines for
the arrest of such alien or aliens in accordance with Section 5,
Rule 113 of the Rules of Court or if such alien is found in
Flagrante delicto violating Philippine Immigration laws.

Section 26. Authority to Issue Mission Orders for
Verification and Investigation of Suspected Illegal Aliens. —
In the cases of aliens who have obtained admission or ingress
into the country, the Bureau of Immigration, through its
Chairman or Associate Commissioners, or in their absence, the
Acting Commissioner of Immigration, is hereby authorized, in
the interest of national security, public health, public safety
and/or] national interest, to issue a mission order directing
appropriate officers of the Bureau of Immigration, whether
organic or on detail, to conduct verification and investigation
operations against the alien or aliens concerned.

Section 27. Submission of Reports to the President. — The
Commissioner of the Bureau of Immigration shall furnish the
Office of the President an annual report of excluded and
deported aliens with their names, aliases, nationalities and the
specific grounds for their deportation, with a duplicate original
copy of subject report(s) furnished the Secretary of Justice.

Section 28. Administrative Accountability of Criminal
Justice Officials. - Officials from the Department of Justice,
Bureau of Immigration and its immigration officers who violate
this Act by allowing the ingress of an excluded alien shall be
held administratively liable with the pertinent penalty for Grave
Misconduct under Civil Service Laws and/or under the laws
being enforced by the Office of the Ombudsman.


Any such official shall also be held criminally liable with a
penalty of three (3) years of imprisonment, or a fine of Five
Hundred Thousand Pesos (P500,000.00) or both at the
discretion of the court.

Section | 29. Administrative Accountability of Bureau of
Immigration Official. - The BI official(s), who allows the
ingress of such sex offender or any such person as stated in the
preceding provision despite prior notice of a foreign conviction or
receipt of information on the investigation and/or charges for a
sex offense or any specified offense against a minor, shall be
held administratively liable with the pertinent penalty for Grave
Misconduct under Civil Service Laws and/or under the laws
being enforced by the Office of the Ombudsman.

C) AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN
AFFAIRS AND/OR BUREAU OF IMMIGRATION FOR
REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION:

Section 30. Information Required from an Indictment as a
Sex Offender. - An alien accused or investigated for any of the
aforementioned offenses herein shall provide the following
information to the DFA or BI for registration purposes:

A) His legal name and any other names or aliases that he is
using or has used;

B) His Social Security Number or Unified Multi-Purpose ID
Common Reference Number, if applicable;

C) His passport identification and number;

D) His date of birth;

E) His current address, the address where he will reside, the
address(es) where he wishes to establish permanent residence(s)

or temporary domicile, in which he resides for more than twenty
days successive or segregated within a whole year;


F) The name and place of his current employment or where he
will be an employee, if applicable;

G) The name and address of the educational institution where he
is a student or will be a student, if applicable;

H) The Motor vehicle registration information and vehicle
description for all motor vehicles that the sex offender owns,
operates, or drives or will own, operate, or drive, if applicable;
and

I) The date and place of his indictment for, and nature of, the sex
offense or specified offense against a minor.

Section 31. Other Required Registry Information. - The DFA
and/or BI shall ensure that the following information is also
included in their registry for subject alien herein:
A) The current photograph of the indicted person;
B) His/her physical description, including a description of any
tattoos, scars or other distinguishing features on his/her body

that would assist in future identification;

Cc) His/her photocopy of the valid driver's license or identification
card/s;

D) His/her photocopy of the latest valid passport;

E) His/her DNA sample, if available;

F) The nature of and date of commission of the alleged offense by
the indicted person, including the text of the provision of law

defining the criminal offense for which he/she is registered; and

G) His/her criminal history, including the date of all arrests and
convictions.

All information shall be updated by the DFA/BI upon receipt of
new valid information.


Section 32. Exempt Information. - The following information
shall be exempt from public disclosure:

1) The identity of any victim of a sex offense;

2) The |Social Security Number or Unified Multi-Purpose ID
Common Reference Number of the suspected or convicted sex
offender;

3) Any reference to arrests of the suspected or indicted sex
offender that did not result in conviction;

(4) Any information about a conviction that did not arise from a
sex offense, except for offenses against minors;

(5) The name of an employer of the suspected or convicted sex
offender; and

(6) The name of an educational institution where the suspected
or convicted sex offender is a student.

Section 33. Blacklist Registry. - The Department of Foreign
Affairs and/or the Bureau of Immigration shall create their own
database or information registry of aliens who have been
excluded from the issuance of a visa and/or excluded from
ingress into the country due cases falling under the coverage of
this Act. All the information and documentation under this
particular Article of the Act herein shall be included in this
Blacklist Registry.

ARTICLE IV. GENERAL PROVISIONS:

Section 34. Good Faith Conduct Immunity. — Any person who,
without] malice or any ill-intent, furnishes any information or
document regarding any case falling under coverage hereof shall
be immune from liability for good faith conduct under this Act.

Section 35. Transitory Provision. - As soon as this Act takes
effect, the DFA Secretary and the Commissioner of the Bureau
of Immigration shall have the authority to apply the powers


herein \granted for alien immigrants who have been allowed
ingress into the country prior to the enactment of this Act.
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Section 36. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The
Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Justice in
coordination with Bureau of Immigration shall issue the
implementing rules and regulations in the immediate
enforcement of this Act and may issue subsequent guidelines in
the interpretation and further implementation of this Act.

The Department of Foreign Affairs and the Bureau of
Immigration shall create a committee and may invite the officers
of the various Cabinet departments, and government offices and
agencies, including non-government organizations, for the
drafting of implementing rules and regulations (IRR). The IRR for
the implementation of this act shall be promulgated within sixty
(60) days from the effective passage of this law.

Section 37. Appropriations Clause. — The initial budget of Five
Million Pesos (P5,000,000.00) for the Department of Affairs and
another Five Million Pesos (P5,000,000.00) for the Bureau of
Immigration, for the enforcement of the IPASOCA and its
operational expenses, establishment of its “blacklist” registry
and database facilities, and such other necessary expenses
thereto immediately in the year of its enactment shall be drawn
from the National Treasury. Thereafter, the amount necessary to
carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the
General Appropriations Act of the year immediately following its
enactment into law and subsequent thereto.

Section 38. General Penal Clause. - A sex offender who fails to
comply with the registration requirements or provides false
information shall suffer the penalty of prisién correccional in
its maximum period.

An informant, who has not acted in good faith, and provides
false information shall suffer the penalty of arresto mayor in its
medium period.

Section 39. Separability Clause. - If any part or section of this
Act shall be declared unconstitutional, such declarations shall
not invalidate the other provisions hereof.

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Section 40. Repealing Clause. - All laws, parts of laws, decrees,
presidential issuances, proclamations, orders, ordinances, and
administrative regulations in conflict with the provisions of this
Act are hereby amended, modified or repealed accordingly.

Section 41. Effectivity. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15)
days after its complete publication in at least two (2) newspapers
of general circulation.

Approved: