SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
First Regular Session
SENA'IE
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(In Substitution of Senate Bill No. 554)
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Prepared by the Committee on Civil Serviee, Government Reorganization and 
Professional Regulation with Senator Antonio “Sonny’ F. Trillanes IV as author
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AN ACT
CREATING THE SICK LEAVE BANK FOR GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES
Be it enacted 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 "Sick Leave Bank Act. "
SEC. 2. Definition oP Terms. - As used in this Act, unless the context otherwise 
requires, the following terms shall mean:
a) "Commission" means the Civil Service Commission;
b) "Agency" means any branch, department, board, committee or eommission of the 
government;
c) "Sick leave bank" means a depository into which participating employees may donate 
or deposit accrued sick leave time for allocation to other parlieipating employees;
d) "Participating employee" means a permanent full or part-time employee who has 
been employed by a government agency for a period of six (6) months or more who 
voluntarily enrolls in the sick leave bank by depositing at least tliree (3) full days of 
accrued siek leave in that bank; and
e) "Catastrophic illness or injury" shall mean those illnesses and injuries which will be 
classified as such by the Commission.
SEC. 3. Sick Leave Bank. - The Commission shall establish a system or scheme 
allowing participating employees in each agency to deposit a designated number or portion of 
their accrued sick leave into a sick leave bank, to be used by any participating employee in 
the agency who has exhausted his or her accrued vacation leave, personal days, sick leave 
and other compensated time off
The Commission shall promulgate the rules governing the operation of the system or 
scheme subject, however, to the following restrictions and limitations:


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a) Paiticipation in the sick leave bank shall, at oil times, be voluntary on the part of anv 
employee.
b) A participating employee may deposit into the sick leave bank as much accrued sick 
leave as desired; provided, that the participating employee shall retain in his or her 
own account at least five (5) sick days.
c) A government employee cannot avail of the benefits of the sick leave bank unless he 
becomes a member of that bank by depositing at three (3) full days of accrued sick 
leave with that bank.
d) Any sick leave in the sick leave bank used by a participating employee shall be only 
for puipose of that employee's personal catastrophic illness or injury.
e) A participating employee cannot avail the benefits of the sick leave bank by reason of 
any injury or illness caused by or as a result of an elective surgery; Provided, That 
the injury or illness has not culminated into a catastrophic illness or injury defined 
under this Act.
f) A participating employee shall not use sick leave deposited and accumulated in the 
sick leave bank until all of his or her accrued vacation leave, personal days, sick lca\'c 
and other compensatory time have been used.
g) A participating employee shall not be allowed to receive any benefits from the siek 
leave bank during any period the member is receiving disability benefits from social 
sccLiiity, or worker s compensation benefits for the job or service related injury or 
illness that is subject to the same grant from which the employee has applied.
h) I articipating employees who transfer Irom one agency to another may transfer their 
participation in the sick leave bank.
i) An employee who cancels his or her participation in the sick leave bank shall not be 
eligible to withdraw the sick leave time he or she has eontributed to the pool.
j) Provisions for the appeal of adverse decisions affecting a participating employee's use 
of the sick leave bank shall be included in rules to be adopted by the Commission.
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Accumulation of sick leave in the sick leave bank shall be on an ageney to agency 
basis but the procedures prescribed in the rules for the operation of the sick leave 
bank shall be uniform among all agencies.
Upon teimination, retirement, or death, neither a participating employee nor the 
paiticipating employee's estate shall be entitled to payment for unused sick leave 
acquired from the sick leave bank
su e. 4. Pena! Provision. - Any abuse of the use of the sick leave bank shall be 
investigated by the agency and the Commission and, upon a finding of wrongdoing on the 
part of a participating employee, that employee shall repay all sick leave days he has drawn 
tiom the sick leave bank, and shall be subjeeted to other disciplinary action.


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SKC. 5. Repealing Clause. - All laws, prcsidcnlial decrees, executive orders and 
other issuances, and rules and regulations, or pari thereof, contrary to or inconsistent with any 
provision of this Act, arc hereby repealed, modi Tied or amended accordingly.
SEC. 6. Iinplementing Rules anti Reguations. - The Commission, in consultation 
with the duly recognized associations and/or unions of government employees, shall 
promulgate the rules and regulations for the proper implementation of this Act within sixty 
(60) days from the effectivity thereof
SEC. 7. Separability Clause. - Should any provision of this Act be found 
unconstitutional by a court of law, such provision shall be severed from the other provisions, 
and the same shall not affect the enforceability and effectivity of the remaining provisions of 
this Act.
SEC. 8. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
complete publication in any two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.
Approved,
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