REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Batasan Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEETH CONGRESS
Third Regular Session

806
HOUSE BILL NO. :

Introduced by REP. BENHUR L. SALIMBANGON

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The late Marcelo Briones Fernan was a lawyer of no ordinary talent having graduated
from the elite public law school of the University of the Philippines where he successfully
entered coming as he doses from a provincial academic school in Cebu.

Marcelo Briones Fernan saw the vision of his father, Judge Wenceslao Fernan, to foster
the noble ideals of a social institution, the Bogo Redeemers Society (BRS) which his father
founded in Bogo City to continue transforming and molding the character of thousands of
Bogohanon youth and make it relevant for almost a hundred years. Marcelo Briones Fernan
was elected Cebu Provincial Board and Batasang Pambansa member, Constitutional
Convention delegate and National President of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines, all elective
positions at grassroots. Marcelo Briones Fernan was appointed Constitutional
Commission member, Associate Justice and later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
Philippines, thereby becoming constitutionally mandated head of the Judiciary Branch, one of
three great branches of government. Marcelo Briones Fernan was nationally elected by the
people as Senator of the Republic and thereupon chosen President thereof by his peers, he
thereby again for the second time headed another branch of government, the Senate of the
Philippines. Marcelo Briones Fernan in his lifetime became the only Filipino to have held two
great branches of government (see Wikipedia) he has thereby distinguished himself undeniably
an “illustrious Filipino” and “statesman”.

This bill seeks to construct a monument at Bogo City, Cebu where Marcelo Briones
Fernan hails from befitting of a person who has served as head of the two branches of
government, the Judiciary and Legislative branches of government. The monument would be
an enduring tribute to a person who has been considered as legal luminary, a statesman and
illustrious Filipino.


Under this bill, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines shall exercise
supervision and control over the construction of the aforementioned monument.

In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bills is earnestly requested.

L. SALIMBANGON

Representative
istrict, Cebu Province


REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Batasan Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEETH CONGRESS
‘Third Regular Session

8064

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by REP. BENHUR L. SALIMBANGON

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF A MARCELO BRIONES FERNAN MEMORIAL MONUMENT
AT THE CITY HALL OF BOGO CITY, AUTHORIZING
APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS THEREFOR
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES:

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

Section 1. There shall be a monument constructed at the City Hall of Bogo City, Cebu, the
Marcelo Briones Fernan Memorial Monument, an enduring tribute to an illustrious person of
the past that would perpetuate his memory for the inspiration and emulation of this generation
and the of generation still unborn.

Section 2. The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) shall in coordination
with the Local Government concerned, endeavor to put up a life-size statue of Marcelo Briones
Fernan at his hometown in Bogo City, Cebu at an appropriate place fronting the City Hall near
where the Sangguniang Panlungsod session hall is located. The expense shall be charged as
provided hereunder to form part of the Commisison’s appropriation under the pertinent
appropriation act.

Section 3. Appropriation — There is hereby appropriated the sum of Five Million
(P5,000,000.00) to finance the construction of the monument directed under Section 2 of this
Act. Thereafter, the year expense in maintaining the statue shall be provided in the yearly
appropriation of the Commission under the General Appropriations Act.

Section 4. Effectivity —This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days its publication in the official
gazette or in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,