RepublicofthePhilippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila
NINEIE  NTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session
Hous=BiiiNo.   5122
Introducedby Representative Gabriel H. Bordado, Jr.
EXPIANATORY NOTE
The teaching profession is bestowed with the great responsibility of educating
and  shaping  the  minds  Of the  Filipino youth.  Teachers  and  educators  become  the
agents of the State, ensuring that education is accessible to all, particularly those living
in far-flung rural areas.
In the conduct of their profession, teachers encounter countless challenges. But
these hardships increase ten fold for those who steadfastly pursue teaching in far-flung
areas around the country. Therefore, there is a need to match their relentless efforts
and  dedication  to  the  profession  through  different  incentives  and  benefits.  These
incentives vrouLd  not only. show the State's  gratitude to our devoted teachers,  but
would likewise serve as an inspiration and motivation for them.
This bill,  which  had  been filed  in the  17th Congress by Rep.  Salvador Belaro,
seeks to provide a "hardship allowance" to teachers assigned to far-flung areas around
the country and to provide measures to ensure their safety and welfare while assigned
to those said areas.
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RepublicofthePhilippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila
NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session
Hou;.eBi`1|No.5122
Introduced by Representative Gabriel H. Bordado, Jr.
AN ACT GRANTING HARDSHIP ALLOWANCE TO TEACHHRS ASSIGNHD IN
REMO" AREAS. AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MEAS\URELS FOR THHIR
PROTECTION
B.e it pna_cted  by the Senate and the House of Representatives  of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Short Title. This Act shall be known as the "Teachers for the Barrios Act
of 2022"
SEC.  2.  a)  All  teachers  assigned  to  far-flung  areas  shall  be  entitled  to  a  monthly
hardship allowance equivalent to double the total expenses that said teacher will incur
every month in additional public transportation from the nearest capital town or-Llrban
center of the school where he is assigned, assuming that the said teacher will go back
and forth to said school daily.  b)  For this purpose,  Section  19 of Republic Act 4670
"Magna  Carla for  Public School  Teachers"  is  hereby  amended  to  include teachers
assigned to far flung areas or barrios as recipients of such hardship allowance.
SEC.  3.  In the  event,  teachers assigned to far-flung  areas would  need  to stay in  a
temporary house in the locality where they are teaching, the Barangay Captain of the
locality where the said teacher will be teacher is hereby mandated to secure a suitable
and safe housing for said teachers.
SEC, 4. The Department of Education  (DepEd),  in collaboration with the Department
of Interior and Local Government,  shall issue the implementing rules and regulations
necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
SEC. 5. The funds necessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be included in
the  General  Appropriation  Act  of  the  year  following  its,  enactment  into  law  and
thereafter.
SEC.6. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations or parts thereof inconsistent
with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.
SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen  (15) days from ccmplcte  publication in the
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,