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Republic of the Philippines
THIRD YOUTH CONGRESS
Baguio City
THIRD CONGRESS

Introduced by Hon. Ralph Julious L. Villamor

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article XV of the Constitution provides that:
Section 1. The State recognizes the Filipino family as the foundation of the nation. Accordingly, it shall strengthen its solidarity and actively promote its total development.
Section 2. Marriage, as an inviolable social institution, is the foundation of the family and shall be protected by the State.
Section 3. The State shall defend:
The right of spouses to found a family in accordance with their religious convictions and the demands of responsible parenthood;
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;
The right of the family to a family living wage and income; and
The right of families or family associations to participate in the planning and implementation of policies and programs that affects them.
Section 4. The family has the duty to care for its elderly members but the State may also do so through just programs of social security.
Aside from other Acts or continuing efforts by the agencies of the government to strengthen the sanctity of the family, it is likewise important to stress the vital function of amusement centers and theme parks in the creation of a stronger family bonding.
Amusement centers and theme parks, in the modern phase of our generation have turned as the most attractive place for families to spend leisure time. The overwhelming numbers of the daily in and out of malls in the metro and in the provinces as well shows that it has indeed took the place of amusement centers and theme parks as the first resort of families to bond.
The turn out of events in the political and economical arena have somehow affected the drastic shift top malls from these amusement centers and theme parks. The drastic increase in the general prices due to economic and political turmoil yields to the increase in amusement fees. It can also be attributed why the families rather choose spend leisure time in malls and other places because of financial constrains, thus sacrificing the benefits of the activity.
With this Act, the skyrocketing amusement fees will be slashed in favor of the families that wish to enjoy tier leisure time in amusement centers and theme parks. It would revive the dying industry of the well loved amusement centers and theme parks.
The approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

Ralph Julious L. Villamor

Republic of the Philippines
THIRD YOUTH CONGRESS
Baguio City

Introduced by Hon. Ralph Julious L. Villamor

AN ACT MANDATING AMUSEMENT CENTERS AND THEME PARKS TO GIVE TEN PERCENT DISCOUNT ON AMUSEMENT FEES TO FAMILY GUESTS OF AT LEAST ONE PARENT AND ONE CHILD.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as “Amusement Discount Act of 2007”
SEC. 2. Coverage. – This Act shall cover amusement centers and theme parks guests of at least on parent and one child. This grant is extended to family of 3rd degree. Eligible guests are to be determined by the management upon completion and presentation of necessary documentations. During management sale or special offers of the amusement centers and theme parks, the covered benefactors are not excluded.
SEC. 3. Purpose. – With the aid of this Act it is expected to have the following achievements:
1. strengthen the sanctity of family
2. revive the industry of amusement centers and theme parks
3. broaden options of ways for families to spend leisure time
4. increase amusement centers and theme parks revenue over time
SEC. 4. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – The Games and Amusement Board (GAB) and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) shall be responsible in the formulation of rules and regulation, and the monitoring of compliance to these rules. The Games and Amusement Board (GAB) shall make the mechanism to which the amusement centers and theme parks adhere. Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will look unto possible tax incentive to these centers and parks to compensate for their service. This shall be issued within ninety (90) days after the approval of this Act.
SEC. 5. Repealing Clause. – Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.
SEC. 6. Separability Clause. – If any provision or part hereof, is held invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or the provision not otherwise shall remain valid and subsisting.
SEC. 7. Effectivity Clause. – this Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.
Approved,

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Republic of the Philippines
YOUTH CONGRESS
Baguio City

INTRODUCED BY: VERONICA B. MAGTIBAY

EXPLANATORY NOTE
Workers who involved in hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes are facing high risk of exposures. Worse, they are less knowledgeable about the potential wastes that they encountered, and they have little prior in training: hence exposing them to further dangers that may deleteriously prejudice their safety and health.
Unfortunately, the government has not taken any concrete plan of action to at least minimize the risks these workers deal with. The policy of the state to protect and promote the right of to health the people, how come no program have been establish about this kind of situation.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriately take action. Basically, it seeks to protect the health and safety of these workers by providing them standards for worker protection, restricting them to entering into areas expose in potential wastes unless they are wearing specified protective clothing, and providing them technical assistance and guidance for health impact assessment. It provides periodic mandatory check-up and intervention, and adoption of concrete guidelines shall be implemented.
In view of the foregoing reason, the immediate approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

VERONICA B. MAGTIBAY

Republic of the Philippines

YOUTH CONGRESS

Baguio City

INTRODUCED BY: VERONICA B. MAGTIBAY

AN ACT
SEEKING TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF WORKERS EXPOSED IN HAZARDOUS, INFECTIOUS, OR TOXIC WASTES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall also be known as the “Occupational Health and Safety Act of 2007.”
SEC 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is hereby declared the policy of the state to protect and promote the right to health the people and to ensure that no individuals will be exposed to significant risk of harm. Toward this end, the Government and Department of Health, in coordination with the Department of Labor and Employment, and other appropriate and concerned agencies shall:
(a) ensure that the health and safety of workers are protected during their work;
(b) prevent from suffering on the effects of hazardous, infectious, toxic wastes;
(c) provide information that will prevent and control related disease;
(d) provide technical assistance and guidance for health impact assessment; and
(e) provide training that are knowledgeable and capable of handling the materials in a safe and diligent manner.
SEC 3. Statement of Objection. – Occupational Health and Safety Act of 2007 shall be implemented in accordance with the following objectives:
(a) to provide standard for worker protection;
(b) to restrict the workers to entering into areas expose in hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes, unless they are wearing specified protective clothing;
(c) to notify or post a sign to warn workers about the risk that they face during their work.
SEC 4. Definition of Term – The following terms used in this Act are defined as follows:
(A) “Worker” is defined as workers who exposed to hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes under operating conditions. Workers such as:
(a) agricultural workers;
(b) industrial workers;
(c) commercial workers;
(d) pesticide handlers;
(e) garbage collectors;
(f) dumpsite workers; and
(g) workers in disaster areas.
(B) “Exposure or Exposed” means that a worker is subjected to a hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes in course of work through any route of entry such as:
(a) inhalation;
(b) ingestion; and
(c) skin contact or absorption.
(C) “Risk” is assessed by the combined effect of the hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes. The characteristics of the risk that will effect to human health such as:
(a) Acute effect show up after a single, brief exposure to a potential wastes that cause skin irritation, headache and nausea.
(b) Chronic effects repeated or belonged exposures to potential wastes that cause liver and kidney disease, nerve and brain disorders and reproductive damage.
(c) Local effects when the potential wastes cause damage at the point of original contact such as skin exposure, eye exposure and respiratory tract exposure.
(d) Systematic effect substances that can pass through the point of original contact and effect of the body such as liver and kidney, central nervous system, and carcinogen and reproductive effects.
(D) “Potential Waste” is substances that are likely to enter the body aids in assessing to potential exposure such as:
(a) hazardous wastes;
(b) infectious wastes; and
(c) toxic wastes.
(E) “Hazardous Waste” is a waste that makes it potentially dangerous or harmful to human health. Hazardous waste includes:
(a) a petroleum-based product;
(b) a metal;
(c) a volatile or semi-volatile organic compound;
(d) a pesticide;
(e) a herbicide; and
(f) dangerously reactive.
(F) “Infectious Waste” means any organism that is capable of producing infection or infectious disease such as:
(a) bacteria;
(b) fungus;
(c) parasite;
(d) protozoan; and
(e) virus,
(G) “Toxic Wastes” is a waste contains substances determined to be harmful at or excess of the maximum concentration. Toxic waste includes:
(a) lead;
(b) arsenic; and
(c) mercury.
SEC 5. Provision of Personal Protective Equipment. – No workers may be allowed to continue with any of their respective activities, unless they are properly equipped with protective gloves and masks and other health and safety gears and proper protective equipment, such as but not limited to respirators to protect against airborne toxins, which may be required depending on the nature and extent of the risk where hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes are present.
SEC 6. Provision Pertaining to Containers. – All workers deployed in clean-up or collecting the potential wastes shall label each container as to content or concentration inside closed containers. Use of open garbage trucks is strictly prohibited.
SEC 7. Comprehensive Guidelines. – The Secretary of the Department of Health, in coordination with the Department of Labor and Employment , and other appropriate and concerned agencies shall come up with comprehensive guidelines, which shall be strictly observed by any workers deployed in areas, where presence of hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes shall be place them at greater risks.
Specifically, the guidelines adopted shall ensure that -
(A) worksites and areas where workers are to be sent are subject to a full assessment and identification of potential wastes through onsite evaluation and monitoring and identification of workers likely to be facing high risk of exposures.
(B) workers of all contributing agencies, whether government or private –
(a) are properly informed of the potential wastes they may face in their work;
(b) are provided proper training in handling potential wastes;
(c) are provided with the proper protective equipment, and guidelines and training for using them; and
(d) receive proper immunizations, where necessary and appropriate.
(C) these efforts are coordinated in close collaboration with local employers, unions and safety and health professionals.
SEC 8. Periodic Medical Check-up. – All individuals exposed to hazardous, infectious and toxic wastes shall undergo period mandatory medical check-up to ensure that their health and safety are not prejudiced by their activities. The proper government agencies or private corporations or entities who employ said individuals shall provide for the necessary fund to finance the cost of medical attention or intervention that may be needed.
SEC 9. Penalties. – Any person who violates any provisions of this Act shall be liable to payment of fines ranging from Two Hundred Thousand Pesos (P200,000.00) to Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (P500,000.00), including revocation of necessary license to operate as regards private entities.
SEC 10. Separability Clause. – If, for any reason or reasons, any part or provision of this Act shall be declared to be unconstitutional or invalid, other parts or provision hereof which are not affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect.
SEC 11. Repealing Clause. – All laws, orders, decrees, rules and regulations inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.
SEC 12. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved.

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Republic of the Philippines

YOUTH CONGRESS

EXPLANATORY NOTE

All patients have the right to choose the healthcare providers that would them access to high-quality healthcare. Patients have the right to be treated with respects, with appreciation of their individual dignity and with protection of their need for privacy and also handle them with care. By reason to these rights, all patients must be given the right to choose the gender of their healthcare personnel that would attend to their needs including their sanitary needs. Patients will keeps in safety, particularly, the women and mental health patients, of their right to be free from any form of abuse or harassment.
On this note, the attached bill gives mental health patients the right to request that the healthcare must be given by a licensed staff who has the sex that the patients requests. If the patient is disable and incompetent to make a request, intimate care shall be provided by a staff member who is the same sex of the patient.

KRISZEL V. MANALILI

Republic of the Philippines
YOUTH CONGRESS

INTRODUCED BY KRISZEL V. MANALILI

AN ACT
RELATING TO MENTAL HEALTH PATIENT RIGHTS AND TO A HOSPITAL’S
DUTY TO PROVIDE CHOICE OF THE SEX OF STAFF PROVIDING INTIMATE
CARE TO A MENTAL HEALTH PATIENT
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. Title. This Act shall be known as the “Right of the Patients Act”
SECTION 2. Right of the Patient to Staff Selection.
a. A patient who is provided an intimate care at a hospital, patients has the right to request that the care be given by a licensed staff member who is the sex that the patient requests.
b. If a patient who is provided an intimate care is not able to make a request, intimate care shall be provided by a staff, member who is the same sex of the patient.
SECTION 3. Obligation of the Hospital. A manager employed by a hospital shall:
1. Provide all the patients a clean and pleasant rooms;
2. post a notice of the right provided under this Act in a prominent place in patient rooms;
and
3. Adopt a policy to provide intimate care as required under this section.
SECTION 4. Definition of Terms
(1) “INTIMATE CARE” means hygienic care, including the bathing and toileting that involves a patient’s perineal area and for female patient, the patient’s breasts; the intimate care does not include activities done in preparation for a medical procedures;
(2) “LICENSED STAFF MEMBER” means a person certified in the state such as midwives, physicians and physician assistants, naturopaths, nurses and nurse aides.
SECTION 5. Separability Clause. In the event that any provision or part of this Act shall be declared unconstitutional by the courts, the remaining provisions shall remain valid and in full force and effect.
SECTION 6. Repealing Clause. All laws, orders, rules and regulations or part thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or amended accordingly.
SECTION 7. Date of Effectivity. This Act shall take effect twenty five (25) days after its publication in at least three (3) national newspapers of general circulation whichever comes earlier.
Approved,

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Republic of the Philippines
YOUTH CONGRESS
Baguio City
INTRODUCED BY MARY JOY A. CONCINA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Prostitution has destructive effects and destroys our moral fiber. Children, whether male or female, who for money, profit, or any other consideration or due to restrain by force or influence of any, or group, indulge in sexual intercourse or lascivious conduct, are deemed to be children exploited in prostitution and other sexual abuse.
Sadly treat sex workers and other individuals exploited into prostitution as criminal perpetrators instead of victims.
Not only in this perspective misplaced but it is clearly and morally highly distasteful and hateful. It is about time this anomaly should be critically addressed.
Through this bill, the old fashioned policies may be corrected paving the way for a more invigorated approach in our campaign against prostitution.
MARY JOY A. CONCINA

Republic of the Philippines
YOUTH CONGRESS
Baguio City
INTRODUCED BY MARY JOY A. CONCINA

AN ACT
ADDRESSING THE SYSTEM OF PROSTITUTION, IMPOSING PENALTIES ON ITS PERPETRATORS, PROVIDING PROTECTIVE MEASURES AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR ITS VICTIMS, AND DECRIMINALIZING VAGRACY.
SECTION 1. Short title – “The anti prostitution Act.”
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policies – The State;
a. Recognizes the dignity of every human person and guarantees the respect of individual rights.
b. Recognized that women and children belong to this kind of work are systematically victimized by. They must be given enough protection and support state, instead of being treated as offenders.
c. Recognizes that the prostitution is the human rights violation, that calls for the right and immediate responses that came from the agencies of government also from non-governmental organization; and
d. Recognizes that prostitutions are the illegal job that grabbed by some women and children that make them ride in the wrong way.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms – This defined for the purpose of this act.
a. Prostitution – refers to any act, transaction, scheme or design involving the use of a person by another, for sexual intercourse or exiting sexual emotions in exchange for money, profit of any other considerations.
b. Child – refers to a person below eighteen (18) years of age or one who is over eighteen (18) but is unable to fully take care of or protect himself/herself from abuse, neglect, cruelty, exploitation, or discrimination because of a physical or mental disability or condition.
c. Establishment – refers to any business or enterprise, including, but not limited to, sauna, bath, massage parlor, discotheque, bar, restaurant, resort, lodging house, motel, hotel, theater, ship, vessel, cab or taxi, or any other vehicle, or any dwelling, house, jail, detention center, structure or building sewing as a cover or venue for prostitution, or any group, association or organization that engages in prostitution activities.
SECTION 4. Act of Prostitution – Prostitution is a crime committed by;
a. Any person who offers another for sexual exploitation in exchange for money or any other consideration.
b. Any member of the military or police establishment, or any government official or employee, or any person in authority who commits, causes for promotes facilitates, allows or tolerates the commission of any of the acts defined in this section, or who, in any manner, provides protection to the perpetrators of the said acts.
c. Any person who uses information technology or any form of media for the purposes of prostitution.
d. Any person who derives profit of advantage from any of the prohibited acts defined in this section an owner of venue of the establishment where the prostitution activity takes place.
SECTION 5. Persons exploited in prostitution as victims – any woman, man or child, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, used or employed for another person sexual gratification, pleasure and for the monetary gain of profit of others, as defined in section 4 of this act, shall be treated as victims.
SECTION 6. Penalties and Sanctions
a. Any person found guilty of committing any of the acts enumerated in section 4 shall suffer the penalty of imprisonment of twenty (20) years and a fine of not less than one million pesos (P1,000,000.00) but not more than two million pesos (P2,000,000.00)
b. When the offender is a foreigner, she/he shall be deported immediately after service sentence and permanently banned from entry into the country.
c. Any establishment that belongs to this shall be immediately close and its registration and/or license to operate shall be revoked.
SECTION 7. Prosecution of cases – any person who has personal knowledge of the commission of any offense under this act, or the person exploited in prostitution, the parents, spouse, sibling, children or legal guardian, or the law enforcement agencies, or the task force created under this act may file a complaint for prostitution.
SECTION 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations – The council shall promulgate the necessary implementing rules and regulations within sixty (60) days from the effectively of this act.
SECTION 9. Separability Clause – If, for any reason, any section of provision of this act is held unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions thereof shall not be affected thereby.
SECTION 10. All, laws presidential decrees, executive orders and rules and regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby modified or repealed accordingly.
SECTION 11. This act shall take effect upon completion of its publication in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

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BILL OF HEALTH
INTRODUCED BY JENNIFER S. ENANOD
EXPLANATORY NOTE

Individuals involved in garbage collection, working in dumpsites or assigned in disaster areas numerous and uncommon work site and environmental hazards. Worse, they may be encountering hazard, with which they have little prior experience or training; hence, exposing them to further dangers that may deleteriously prejudice their safety and health.
Unfortunately, the Government has not taken any concrete plan of action to at least abate or minimize the risks these individuals deal with. Considering the sensitive and delicate nature of this concern, it makes one wonder how come no programs have ever been set in place to critically address the same.
The purpose of this Act is to appropriate take action. It seeks to protect the health and safety to these individuals that are involved in this operations and activities.

BILL OF HELATH
INTRODUCED BY JENNIFER S. ENANOD

AN ACT
SEEKING TO PROTECT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN GARBAGE COLLECTION, WORKING IN DUMPSITES OR ASSIGNED IN DISASTER AREAS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall also be known as the “Individuals’ Health and Safety Act.”
SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. – It is hereby declared the Policy of the state to protect the health and safety of individuals that are involved in garbage collection, working dumpsites or assigned in disaster areas. Towards this end, this Act aims to protect the right of this individuals to ensure and provide their healthy and safety.
SECTION 3. Definition of Terms. – As used in this Act, the following terms shall mean:
Garbage Collection – performed by a garbage collector, which recycles memory that it can prove, will never be use again. It also known as automatic management is the automatic recycling of heap memory.
Dumpsite – Location of a dump, especially garbage dump.
Disaster Areas – region or a locale heavily damaged by their natural hazards, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, technological hazards including nuclear and radiation accidents, or sociological hazards like riots, terrorism or war.
Hazard – a situation that poses a level of threat to life, health, property or environment. Most hazards are dormant or potential, with only a theoretical risk of harm, however, once a hazard becomes ‘active’, it can create an emergency situation.
SECTION 4. Provisions.
Gloves, Masks, and other Proper Protective Equipment
No individuals involved in garbage collection, working in dumpsites or assigned in disaster areas may be allowed to continue with any of their respective activities, unless they are properly equipped with protective gloves and masks and other healthy and safety gears and proper protective equipment, such as but not limited to respirators to protect against airborne toxins, which may be required depending on the nature and extent of risks involved in clean-up operations, where hazardous and infectious chemicals are present.
Closed Containers
Any contractor operator, or entity, duly contracted to carry out garbage collection in Metro Manila and other parts of the country shall place all collected garbage inside close containers. Use of open garbage trucks is strictly prohibited.
SECTION 5. Comprehensive Guidelines. – the Secretary of the Department of health, in coordination with the Department of Environment and Natural resources, and other appropriate and concerned agencies shall come up with comprehensive guidelines, which shall be strictly observed by any responder or clean-up crew deployed to attend to rescue or clean-up operations in disaster areas, where presence of hazardous and infectious materials shall place them greater risks.
Specifically, the guidelines adopted shall ensure that:
Work sites and areas where responders and clean-up crews are to be sent are subject to a full environmental assessment and identification of hazards through onsite evaluation and monitoring and identification of workers likely to be facing high risk of hazardous exposures;
Relief, reconstruction and clean-up workers of all contributing agencies, whether government or private-
Are properly informed of the environmental hazards they may face in their work;
Are provided proper training in handing toxic materials;
Are provided with the proper protective equipment.
Receive proper immunizations, where necessary and appropriate;
C. These efforts are coordinated in close collaborated with local employers, unions and safety and health professionals.
SECTION 6. Periodic Medical Check-up. – all individuals involved in garbage collections, working in dumpsites or assigned in disaster areas, shall be required to undergo period mandatory medical check-up to ensure that their health and safety are not prejudiced by their activities. The proper government agencies or private corporations or entities who employ said individuals shall provide for the necessary fund to finance the cost of medical attention or intervention that may be needed.
SECTION 7. Penalties. - Any person who violates any provisions of this Act shall be liable to payment of fines ranging from one hundred thousand pesos (P100, 000.00) to three hundred thousand pesos (P300, 000.00), including revocation of necessary license to operate as regards private entities.
SECTION 8. Separability Clause. – If any provision or part hereof is held invalid or unconstitutional, the law provision not otherwise affected shall remain valid subsisting.
SECTION 9. Repealing Clause. – Any law, presidential decree or issuance, executive order, letter of instruction, administrative order, rule or regulation contrary to or inconsistent with the provision of this Act is hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.
SECTION 10. Effectively Clause. – This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

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Republic of the Philippines

YOUTH CONGRESS

Baguio City

Explanatory Note

The Law of infidelity in the custody of prisoners has been a vintage time since it was. The penalties impose during those days are probably not effective in today’s time, where crimes have become a common occurrence. At the same time the escape of prisoners or the criminals who has been captured has very often obvious by the public eyes. The Government official or employees whose in charge of a prisoners much often commit such infidelity in the custody because the penalty for such cowardly act is light and therefore freeing illegally a prisoner through bribery is very great if not too tempting. Anyone who frees a prisoner is part of the commission of the offense perpetrated by the prisoner. A guard who frees an inmate not only participates to the commission of the crimes of the offender but it will turned as a traitor to the government and to the law he is sworn to protect and respect.
In the penal code the penalty for the crime of freeing a convicted prisoners by their guard or keepers is an imprisonment in its medium to its maximum period, therefore the penalty begins at two (2) years and one day to six (6) years. However for the crime or infidelity in the custody of prisoners who are merely in detention, the penalty is imprisonment in its minimum period, which is six (6) months and one day to two (2) years. The emphasis of the imposition of the penalty is based on the prisoners is convicted or merely in detention. For me this categorization is not proper and is insufficient because the penalty that they’d impose is not based on the gravity of the offense of the prisoner. True, the accused is deemed innocent until he is convicted. But now days, there are existence of crimes that are so repugnance and brutal that it destroys the human being and violate the sensibilities if man.
The commission of crimes those are heinous, like murder, rape, the massacre or extermination of a family, terrorism, genocide by the use of weapon of mass destruction like dynamite and explosion have become nightmares which threatens the stability of the government. Yet every now and then we are scandalized by the rampant escape of those accused of the terrorism, economic sabotage, massacre, rape and similar terrible felonies from their high security to put in a prisoner while the officials and the personnel in charge of the detainee literally go scot-free because the highest penalty they can be meted out is two (2) years imprisonment. It should give the highest penalties for those who would illegally free the detainee(s) especially the convicted government officials.
The approval of this revised bill into law at the earliest possible time would be my paramount concern.

INTRODUCE BY MA. VERONICA MUNDA

AN ACT
DEFINING THE CRIME OF BETRAYAL OF DUTY IN THE CUSTODY OF PRISONERS PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL RULES ON THE IMPRISONMENT, DETENTION, CONFINEMENT AND CUSTODY OF PRISONERS AND DETAINEES SPECIFYING ADDITIONAL WORKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OD GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL CHARGED WITH THE CUSTODY OF SUCH PRISONERS AND STATING THE PENALTIES THEREFORE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Sec.1 Short Title. This Act shall also be known as ”Betrayal of Duty”
Sec. 2.Any provision of law, the crime of betrayal of duty in the custody of prisoners and detained persons is hereby defined as an Act whereby a persons charge with custody of prisoners, detained persons under preventive imprisonment, persons arrested in the Act of committing crime, Persons who are wanted in foreign countries by which the Philippines as a treaty of reciprocity for extradition, persons committing heinous crimes, terrorist and war criminal or engaged in economic sabotage, will not allow the escape of such prisoners or persons similarly situated without legal justification, or else shall be punished with a penalty which is one degree lower than the penalty imposed for the offense which the detainee is charged with or convicted of, provided that in no case shall the penalty imposed be lower than prison, correctional in its minimum period. For the escape of a detainee wanted by a foreign country, the penalty of prison, correctional in its maximum period, for the escape of the prisoners who are accused of the commission heinous, terrorism, war crimes, and economic sabotage, the penalty of life imprisonment shall be imposed without any provision of parole, and for the persons convicted of the crime of betrayal of duty in the custody of prisoners shall likewise suffer a special permanent of disqualification, if the detainee have been convicted or who has admitted his guilt in open court, even if, the decision of conviction has not been rendered.
Sec. 3. The office or institution for high risk detainees shall establish or add rules and regulation in the custody of prisoners. It should be record the time when the detained person was accepted by institution, the name of persons, whose in charged to guard the detained person or detainees, the time and date there were turn over of guards, it should be properly signed and acknowledged by the said personnel who guard the detainee(s) from another cell detention, his transfer from one institution to another.
Sec. 4. Persons, though not in charge of the detainee, who enjoys the higher rank than the custodian of prisoner who shall cause, aid, abet and facilitate the escape of detainee, will suffer the same penalty, the court or tribunal will impose the same in its maximum period. However the court will impose the penalties under this Act, in the degree that will be fair and humane as the case may be.
Sec. 5. To those government official whose involved in a merely detention, it should not give any special treatment, the guard whose in charged of that detainee must be loyal to his duty.
Sec. 6. The government officials who’s found guilty by an open court and give by the court a decision with a life imprisonment should not have given either a parole.
Sec. 7. The suspicious terrorist should put into the detention cell and must be double the security, and cannot be allowed to be free unless the court decided not guilty for the solve of maintenance of peace and order, the protection of life, liberty and property, and the promotion of general welfare which are essential for the enjoyment by all the people of the blessings of democracy in a just and humane society. It should give right penalties for the custody of that suspicious detainee if he would allow freeing.
Sec. 8. this Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days from its publication in at least two news papers of general circulation of the Philippines.

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