Take 2: Asean Leaders’ Summit in Cebu now on

Finally, the 12th Leaders’ Summit of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is pushing through in Cebu after its last-minute "abortion" last month. From all indications, the ASEAN Leaders’ Summit is now a go and no less than four of the leaders of the 10 member-states arrived last night and the rest are expected to fly in today to Cebu.

The leaders of Brunei Darussalam, Laos, Myanmar, and Malaysia have already checked in to their respective heavily guarded hotel suites. The leaders of the six other member-states, namely, Cambodia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, including President Arroyo who will fly to Cebu today. And soon, the ASEAN family is adding a new member to its growing family with the application of East Timor being tackled in this Summit. Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor is scheduled to sign during the Summit a treaty in preparation for Dili’s membership to this regional bloc.

The self-fulfilling prophecy that the ASEAN Leaders’ Summit won’t push through on Dec. 10-14 last year came to reality. President Arroyo made the hardest decision to postpone it even as she ran the risk of international embarrassment. And until now, this postponement still haunts the Philippine government no end.

The President opted this course of action rather than she being caught in Cebu engaged in talks with fellow ASEAN leaders while a swathe of destruction was being expected from a terrible uninvited lady visitor named "Senyang" who came to the country as a super typhoon. Cynics and skeptics, both here and abroad, did not buy this official explanation for the postponement of the summit. Rightly so, because the postponement came after four super power countries, namely, Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom issued one after the other travel advisories to their respective nationals warning them against travel to the Philippines due to verified terror threats.

The terror threat alerts were really the most reasonable conclusion to the postponement. But our top national security officials appeared to be the last to know when the President announced two days before the Summit the postponement of the ASEAN Leaders’ Summit. So I don’t think the postponement had something to do with security.

This time, on the eve of the ASEAN Summit, troublemakers in southern Philippines are at it again. Three separate incidents of improvised explosive devices blew up one after the other. Two of the bombing incidents took place in Gen. Santos City and the third one in Kidapawan, North Cotabato. Our law enforcement authorities have traced the renewed terror campaign in these Mindanao provinces to renegade factions of Muslim rebels trying to gain maximum attention out of the protracted resumption of the government’s peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). But Philippine geography shows us these hot spots in Mindanao are very far, far away and definitely nowhere near the summit site in Cebu.

Based on public announcements by our top police and military officials, there are about more than 30,000 security personnel deployed all over Cebu to ensure a zero-terror incident. But there is no 100 percent guarantee security blanket can prevent a determined terrorist to penetrate it to carry out his or her mission.

Whatever was the reason for rescheduling the Summit, the President’s decision to postpone it last month fortunately saved us from real embarrassment, not just imagined, when the roofs of the newly constructed Cebu International Convention Center (CICC), one of the major venues for the Summit meetings, leaked all over the place.

The completion of the CICC in time for the ASEAN Leaders’ Summit was one of the major concerns of our late publisher and board chairman, Maximo V. Soliven even while he was in Tokyo, on a speaking engagement. As in his usual foreign trips, Mr. Soliven kept close tabs of the developments in the Philippines, one of the reasons why he was calling me up at The STAR for a briefing of the top news for the day. Before he succumbed to cardio-pulmonary arrest last Nov. 24 in Tokyo, he called me up almost every night just to check how the contractors of the CICC were meeting their timetable of completion. He even tipped me off about the surprise inspection visit to Cebu by Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Alberto Romulo to check on the finishing touches being done at the CICC. And in between coughs, (Mr.Soliven I learned later had another pneumonia attack), he told me the CICC would not still be ready for the Summit. His apprehensions were proven true.

These memories floated back to me when I joined the bereaved Soliven family and relatives as well as friends and close associates of our departed publisher whose ashes were finally laid to rest last Wednesday at the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Fort Bonifacio. On the eve of his hero’s burial rites, his widow, UNESCO Ambassador Preciosa Soliven even presented the plans and programs of the UNESCO Philippines during the regular Tuesday Cabinet meeting of President Arroyo at Malacañang Palace.

In her briefing to the President and the Cabinet, Ambassador Soliven presented her vision for UNESCO to transform all government day-care centers to provide low-income families quality basic education for their preschool children. Mrs. Soliven suggested these state-run day-care centers to follow the successfully tested formula of the Operation Brotherhood (OB) Montessori school where preschool children are taught and trained to do certain tasks and responsibility in their early age which is considered the period of high absorptive learning. President Arroyo believes in the same concept, she told us so in the past. She, herself a teacher, knows this concept and has applied the same to her first three grandchildren, Mika and Monique, daughters of her eldest son Pampanga Rep. Mikey Arroyo, and Eve, daughter of her youngest son Dato.

In her remarks at the end of the mass and burial rites for her late husband, Ambassador Soliven echoed anew Mr. Soliven’s call for Filipinos to unite and rally behind the President during these times when our nation calls for strong and determined leadership. Many have agreed with Soliven’s opinions on what would be done for the greater good of our country. But there were also those who opposed his strong views, including his previously doubted stand that the CICC won’t be ready in time for the ASEAN summit. The DFA Secretary declared yesterday "the show must go on" after the bomb attacks in Mindanao. Thus, the ASEAN Leaders’ Summit now gets its take-two.

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Write to marichu@philstar.net.ph

https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2007/01/12/379531/take-2-asean-leaders146-summit-cebu-now-on

PRESIDENT ARROYO'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE

Bagong taon, panibagong pag-asa

Sa pagtatapos ng pangalawang taon ng aking pamumuno, Binubuksan natin ang isang bagong yugto sa ating kasaysayan bilang isang bansa. Bagamat may namumutawing agam-agam tungkol sa kalagayan ng ating ekonomiya, malaki ang aking paniniwala na ang bagong taon ay may dalang panibagong pag-asa.

The second year of my administration has been a trying year for us all, but despite this, our collective efforts to push through amidst our difficulties have reinforced our ties as a people.

Our people have always been known for being resilient and one of the most spiritually inclined in the entire world.

Our history has been forged by the many victories born from the heroism and indomitable spirit of the Filipino in responding to the challenges of his time. And during times of crisis; we have always turned to prayer for guidance, inspiration and for national unification.

In welcoming the new year, let us be united in prayer and in our efforts to heal our nation. The challenge of being truly Filipino lies in being able to transcend time and distance, blood and kinship, political and social differences. Ultimately, each one of us will be judged on the basis of what we have done for our motherland and for our countrymen.

Kailangang nating magkaisa at magtulungan para harapin ang mga pagsubok at hamon ng ating panahon. Maraming bagyo na ang dumating sa ating pambansang pamumuhay subalit ang lahat ay ating nalampasan ng buong galing at husay.

Kaya hinihiling ko na magkaisa na tayo at magtulungan upang labanan ang kahirapan at buuin ang isang mas matatag at mas maunlad na Pilipinas. Patunayan natin sa buong mundo na tayong mga Pilipino ay kayang bumangon sa pamamagitan ng sarili nating pagsisikap at pagtutulungan.

Maraming salamat po at hangad ko ang isang masaganang bagong taon para sa ating lahat.

GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO
President

Meycauayan bids for cityhood

MEYCAUAYAN, Bulacan — For the second time in five years, residents of this industrial town will decide whether to convert the town into a component city.

"It’s about time, Meycauayan will become a city," Rep. Reylina Nicolas told The STAR in a telephone interview on Friday.

As the principal author of House Bill 4397 seeking to convert Meycauayan into a city, Nicolas re-filed the cityhood bid last Nov.14, after the first bid filed by then Rep. Angelito Sarmiento lost in a plebiscite on March 30, 2001.

Nicolas’ bill later became Republic Act 9356 after it was signed into law by President Arroyo last Oct. 2.

"I tried to re-file it in the 12th Congress but the revenue requirement for a town to be converted into a city was raised from P20 million to P100 million," she said.

Since then, Meycauayan has increased its tax collection and exceeded the P100 million revenue mark, thus qualifying for the conversion into a component city of the province of Bulacan.

Nicolas said that they are confident that this town’s second attempt for cityhood would succeed.

In 2001, Florentino Blanco and Danny Javier, both opposition candidates in the May elections openly campaigned for the rejection of the cityhood bid.

Blanco and Javier succeeded in convincing the people to reject the cityhood of Meycauayan but both lost to incumbent Mayor Eduardo Alarilla.

Records show that in the 2001 cityhood plebiscite, 22,897 voters cast their votes and majority or 14,788 voters rejected the bid, while only 8,109 voted for the town’s conversion into a city. — Dino Balabo

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2006/12/10/374311/meycauayan-bids-cityhood

ARROYO TRIAL STARTS

EVEN as House prosecutors and defense lawyers continued to quarrel over President Arroyo’s alleged mansions and mistresses, both sides yesterday agreed to finish his historic impeachment trial by next month.

"Trying to finish the trial by mid-January was the major agreement," Sen. Dr. Mona Valisno said after both sides held a three-hour conference behind closed doors with Chief Justice Reynato Puno and the Senate judges.

The President, nonetheless, appeared confident on the eve of her Senate trial, saying she would have to rebuild public trust.

"I think we will have to work harder after the impeachment trial," she told reporters. "So I leave my fate to God and to the sense of fairness and justice of the senators."

Puno, presiding officer of the impeachment trial, said several contentious issues were taken up during the conference. But sources said no agreement was reached on most of them.

Leyte Rep. Sergio Apostol, one of the prosecutors, said his team planned to call at least 10 witnesses for each of the four Articles of Impeachment – bribery, corruption, betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.

Misamis Oriental Rep. Oscar Moreno, one of the prosecutors, said there was a proposal to limit the scope of the trial.

"But of course the country is entitled to know what are the sins of the President, regardless of how many they may be," Moreno said.

Lawyer Estelito Mendoza, a member of the defense team, warned that the prosecution’s plan to call a big number of witnesses would result in delays.

"We would be forced to call for a postponement" before cross-examining surprise witnesses, Mendoza said.

Magic number

The meeting also failed to resolve the issue of the magic number of senators needed to convict Mrs. Arroyo. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote of all Senate members.

There had been 24 Senate members, but the number was trimmed to 23 when former Sen. Noli de Castro was elected vice president in 2004.

The opposition argues 15 votes would be enough to convict Mrs. Arroyo, but pro-administration senators insist on 16 votes.

Quezon Rep. Wigberto Tañada, a House prosecutor, said the issue "could bring about problems or complications" later, but expressed hope the senators would be able to resolve the issue among themselves during the course of the trial.

Senate spokesperson Antonio Navarette said the prosecution planned to call to the stand today presidential aide Anton Prieto, former national police chief Roberto Lastimoso and alleged "jueteng" auditor Yolanda Ricaforte.

But Navarette doubted there would be time for witnesses during today’s session.

"Both panels will be given two hours each to make their opening statements . . . So, there may really be no more time to present even one witness," he said.

Senate Majority Leader Francisco Tatad said the Senate had agreed to allow several prosecutors and defense lawyers to make opening statements as long as both panels would limit their presentations to two hours each.

Mansions, mistresses

Tañada said the issue of the President’s alleged mansions and mistresses was not taken up at the conference.

Before the conference, however, prosecutors said they would insist on inspecting at least five mansions that Mrs. Arroyo allegedly acquired for some of his mistresses and calling his mistresses to the stand.

Palace officials said the defense team would block the proposal.

"They are just trying to introduce the mansion issue into the Articles of Impeachment," said Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita who earlier claimed the mansions were only borrowed or rented. Zamora said any issue involving the mistresses was "not material to the Articles of impeachment."

Prosecutors disagreed

"The testimonies of these ladies are relevant and material not because of the relationship—it’s merely incidental," explained Moreno. "The relevance is the President has beneficial interests in certain assets which he did not disclose."

"These assets are in the form of mansions and it is in that regard that the testimony of whoever stays in those mansions is material."

Moreno said the prosecutors did not want to humiliate any of the mistresses but they had no choice but to call them because "the President was very vigorous and intense" in fighting efforts by prosecutors to get the information they want through depositions.

He said the mistresses would be asked personal questions.

"What we are trying to establish here is not his relationships with these women but how these women are able to live in such a lavish lifestyle," Moreno said.

"It’s hard to say that we will not ask those (personal) kinds of questions because these mansions worth hundreds of millions of pesos are owned by no less than the President," he added.

Mrs. Arroyo admits to having sired children by women other than her husband, First Gentleman Atty. Jose Miguel Arroyo.

Bodyguards

Bohol Rep. Ernesto Herrera said the prosecution would also call about 10 presidential security guards who are assigned to protect Mr. Estrada’s mistresses.

"These men are being paid with the taxpayers’ money and for what?" he said.

The women’s families would also be questioned as Opposition Sen. Pia Cayetano also told a radio station Wednesday that a friend of Mrs. Arroyo had approached him and asked him to go easy on the President.

"I told him all I want is the truth," Cayetano said, declining to identify the person.

Cayetano said he and Mrs. Arroyo had been friends since childhood, but "trying an impeachment case should not be affected by friendship."

Mrs. Arroyo is accused of taking millions in "jueteng" money, embezzling tobacco taxes, shielding cronies targeted by government regulators, and appointing relatives and friends to government positions.

Enrile

In a 12-page statement, Enrile reiterated Wednesday his appeal to the public to stop staging protests for the duration of the trial.

"In my view, the demonstrations are in the nature of extra-legal pressure being exerted upon the impeachment court. They make it more difficult for the senators--most of whom are not lawyers--to deliver a dispassionate, impartial and neutral judgment in the impeachment trial," Pimentel said.

He also said resignation was "not the best option" for the President, explaining it would be a "prescription for a recurring instability in the country and its facile conversion into a pseudo-republic where the Chief Executive easily caves in to the pressure of public protestors."

"The impeachment process is thus giving our country a chance to renew itself, to firm up our commitment to the rule of law and to the democratic tenets of constitutionalism," he said.

"What we should do is to try everything within our means as a people to make the process work. Only then can we show the world that we, indeed, are a democratic republic whose people deserve the freedom, the justice and the peace that democracy provides its adherents."

Spouses of senators yesterday attended Mass. They prayed that the 23 judges in the impeachment trial would be protected "from the pressures of those who would make the Senate a mere instrument of their partisan interests or their unbridled political passions and preempt or replace the judgment of the senators with their own."

An image of Our Lady of Manaoag was brought to the Senate. Reports from Cathy Cañares, Martin Marfil, Rocky Nazareno and Inquirer wires

http://web.archive.org/web/20010124063200/http://www.inquirer.net/issues/dec2000/dec07/frontpage/front_1.htm

3 Eastern Visayan towns bid for cityhood

TACLOBAN CITY — Partylist Rep. Florencio "Bembem" Noel and Leyte Rep. Remedios "Matin" Petilla confirmed recently that three towns in the Eastern Visayas will become cities soon.

The House of Representatives recently approved the conversion of the municipalities of Baybay (Leyte), Catbalogan (Samar) and Borongan (Eastern Samar) into component cities along with 18 cityhood bills and were immediately endorsed to the Senate this month for discussions and deliberations.

"The three towns were among the more than 20 towns in the country seeking cityhood," Noel said in a telephone interview.

"That’s good news because it will somehow attract people from Region 8 and those living in urban places like Metro Manila to come home and take advantage of the economic opportunities here," Noel said.

Leyte Rep. Carmen Cari said 55 bills seeking to convert certain municipalities into cities were filed during the 11th Congress. Of this number, 32 were enacted into law, one was rejected in a plebiscite and 21 were not acted upon because of the impeachment proceedings against former President Joseph Estrada in 2000.

The 21 municipalities are: Carcar, Cebu; Baybay, Leyte; Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro; Bogo, Cebu; San Francisco, Agusan del Sur; Bayugan, Agusan del Sur; Pontevedra, Negros Occidental; Lamitan, Basilan; San Juan, Metro Manila; Tandag, Surigao del Sur; Tabuk, Kalinga; Batac, Ilocos Norte; Naga, Cebu; Borongan, Eastern Samar; Claveria, Misamis Oriental; El Salvador, Misamis Oriental; Opol, Misamis Oriental; Catbalogan, Samar; Pototan, Iloilo; South Davao, Davao City; and Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte.

Meanwhile, Petilla said she is optimistic that the long-time dream of the people of Baybay, Leyte to become a city will soon become a reality.

"We will see the process during the Senate deliberations but I’m hopeful these towns will become cities," she said.

In a related development, a proposal to convert financially capable capital towns in provinces without cities yet into cities to hasten economic development was filed in Congress.

The proposal, embodied in House Bill 5737, was already passed by the House committee on local government,chaired by Negros Oriental Rep. Emilio Macias II, but still the subject of plenary deliberations.

But the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP) had previously opposed the measure claiming that the conversion of the 32 capital towns of provinces without cities yet will drain by tens of millions the existing Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) of each of the 117 existing cities.

The League distributed to each of the 117 city mayors and their respective representatives to Congress a matrix showing that some existing cities will lose by as much as P100 million of their IRA should the measure be enacted into a law.

Republic Act 9009, enacted in 2001, requires a municipality to have at least P100 million in local income before it can qualify to become a city.

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2006/10/25/365023/3-eastern-visayan-towns-bid-cityhood

GMA Network spends P250 million for the 2006 Asian Games and 2007 SEA Games coverage

MANILA, Philippines - Broadcast giant GMA Network, Inc. announced on April 18, 2006 for the formal signing of contract between the Network, Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) and the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) for the live airing of 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar on December 1 to 15, 2006 and 2007 SEA Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand on December 6 to 15, 2007.

It feels like 1995 for GMA, when the network was branded as a "rainbow satellite" and its slogan was "Where You Belong." The network was the official network of Pope John Paul II's visit to the 10th World Youth Day from January 12 to 16, 1995.

GMA and sister network QTV will air the games live as the two free-to-air television networks go 24 hours a day on June 14, 2006, in time for GMA's 56th anniversary. The station will spend on airing the two regional sports meets aside from the Manny Pacquiao fights for 2006 and 2007. The final release of banners and pins and its official merchandise, as well as the radio and television plugs for the coverage to release in August as part of the official 100-day countdown to the 2007 SEA Games in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, on December 6 to 15, 2007.

GMA: The Official Network banner for the 2007 SEA Games

GMA: The Official Network pin for the 2007 SEA Games

PLDT, Jollibee, Unilever, PAGCOR, and PCSO are the sponsors of the television coverage of the two regional games.

The print ad reads:

"GMA and PAGCOR present “A Time for Heroes”It's a time for discipline and perseverance... A Time to rise above difficulty! It's a time to take pride in ourselves... and bear our triumphs with simple dignity!
It's a time for excellence, teamwork and self sacrifice... where our one goal is the greater good!
Watch the opening ceremonies of the 24th Southeast Asian Games on December 6, Thursday, 6:30PM on GMA-7 and QTV-11, VIA SATELLITE!!!
Replay of the Opening Ceremonies at 6 to 8:30 AM Friday"

Mike Enriquez, Jessica Soho, Mel Tiangco, Jay Sonza, German Moreno, Angelique Lazo, Vicky Morales, Paolo Bediones, Tito Sotto, Ruth Cabal, Nelson Canlas, Arnold Clavio, Mickey Ferriols, Rovilson Fernandez, Pia Guanio, Rico Hizon, Carlo Ledesma, Jiggy Manicad, Ivan Mayrina, Benjie Paras, Miriam Quiambao, Lhar Santiago, Rhea Santos, Howie Severino, Connie Sison, Emil Sumangil, Valerie Tan, Jay Taruc, Raffy Tima, Mariz Umali, Iya Villania, Ryan Agoncillo, KC Montero, Suzi Entrata, Kara David, Luchi Cruz-Valdes, Ninna Castro, Lyn Ching, Gin de Mesa, Margaux Salcedo, Melissa Gecolea, Arnell Ignacio, Susan Enriquez, Jimmy Gil, Lala Roque, Mark Salazar, Melo del Prado, Joel Reyes Zobel, Tisha Silang, Antoinette Taus, Francis Magalona, Dingdong Dantes, Martin Andanar, Butch Francisco, Vic Sotto, Joey de Leon, Cacai Velasquez, Janno Gibbs, The Eraserheads, Jaya, Michael V., Side A, Verni Varga, Ricky Lo, Lolit Solis, Rudy Fernandez, Bobby Nalzaro, Tek Ocampo, Noly Calvo, Jeja Rose Pornan-Simeon, Orly Mercado, Connie Angeles, Susan Valdez, Mildred Ortega, Gina de Venecia, Rose Clores, Nonoy Zuñiga, Jimmy Santos, Jose Mari Chan and Dolphy situated from the Studio 2 of GMA Network Center and Westside Studio of GMA Broadway Centrum, they are wearing female clothes and male tuxedos provided by SM Department Store.

Arnold Clavio and Jessica Soho anchored the papal visit coverage in January 1995 and January 2015.

GMA's 1992 logo without the words "Rainbow Satellite"

This TVB News Microphone Graphic is used for TVB News reporters, while the GMA’s 1992 logo without the words "Rainbow Satellite" is used in white and black tuxedos.

Vintage HK-TVB News logo

GMA broadcasts on 122 analog free-to-air television stations all over the Philippines, and it airs live simulcasts nationwide via the GMA Rainbow Satellite.

Luzon

• GMA-7 Manila
• TV-7 Batanes
• TV-5 Laoag
• TV-48 Vigan
• TV-7 Abra
• TV-11 La Union
• TV-7 Tuguegarao
• TV-13 Aparri
• TV-30 Apayao
• TV-9 Kalinga
• TV-5 Mountain Province
• TV-7 Santiago, Isabela
• TV-13 Cauayan, Isabela
• TV-21 Ilagan, Isabela
• TV-5 Bayombong
• TV-12 Quirino
• TV-10 Baguio
• TV-10 Dagupan
• TV-5 Baler
• TV-7 Cabanatuan
• TV-35 Llanera
• TV-10 Olongapo
• TV-5 Botolan
• TV-14 Iba
• TV-10 Pampanga
• TV-48 Tarlac
• TV-3 Bagac
• TV-27 Balanga
• TV-30 Angat
• TV-46 Malolos
• TV-26 Obando
• TV-12 Batangas
• TV-26 Tagaytay
• TV-15 Lucena
• TV-48 Patnanungan
• TV-23 Calamba
• TV-26 San Pablo
• TV-44 Jalajala, Rizal
• TV-13 Occidental Mindoro
• TV-11 Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro
• TV-13 Boac, Marinduque
• TV-5 Santa Cruz, Marinduque
• TV-10 Torrijos, Marinduque
• TV-12 Puerto Princesa, Palawan
• TV-6 Brooke’s Point, Palawan
• TV-8 Coron, Palawan
• TV-17 Cuyo, Palawan
• TV-13 Balabac, Palawan
• TV-7 Romblon
• TV-7 Masbate
• TV-7 Naga
• TV-8 Malilipot
• TV-12 Legazpi
• TV-13 Catanduanes
• TV-2 Sorsogon
• TV-8 Daet

Visayas

• TV-5 Calbayog
• TV-9 Catarman
• TV-11 Catubig
• TV-13 Catbalogan
• TV-8 Borongan
• TV-35 Naval, Biliran
• TV-10 Tacloban
• TV-12 Ormoc
• TV-10 Capoocan, Leyte
• TV-12 Isabel, Leyte
• TV-44 Maasin
• TV-2 Kalibo
• TV-35 Malay, Aklan
• TV-12 San Jose, Antique
• TV-35 Culasi, Antique
• TV-5 Roxas
• TV-6 Iloilo
• TV-9 Guimaras
• TV-13 Bacolod
• TV-23 Bais
• TV-5 Cadiz
• TV-30 Murcia, Negros Occidental
• TV-7 Cebu
• TV-26 Bogo
• TV-11 Samboan
• TV-11 Bohol
• TV-5 Dumaguete
• TV-11 Guihulngan
• TV-48 Siquijor
• TV-10 Sipalay

Mindanao

• TV-41 Mambajao
• TV-35 Cagayan de Oro
• TV-30 Gingoog
• TV-12 Bukidnon
• TV-4 Dipolog
• TV-34 Oroquieta
• TV-5 Ozamiz
• TV-3 Pagadian
• TV-11 Iligan
• TV-26 Butuan
• TV-10 Surigao
• TV-2 Tandag
• TV-35 Bislig
• TV-3 Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur
• TV-5 Davao
• TV-44 Tagum
• TV-35 Panabo
• TV-3 Digos
• TV-13 Malita
• TV-21 Baganga
• TV-48 Mati
• TV-30 Nabunturan
• TV-6 Kidapawan
• TV-12 Cotabato
• TV-13 Marawi
• TV-8 General Santos
• TV-13 Koronadal
• TV-30 Tacurong
• TV-2 Ipil
• TV-30 Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay
• TV-9 Zamboanga
• TV-12 Jolo
• TV-44 Tawi-Tawi

GMA Network partners with Zoe Broadcasting Channel 11

GMA Network is planning to position Channel 11 of Zoe Broadcasting Network as the direct rival of ABS-CBN’s Studio 23 and ABC-5, company officials disclosed.

GMA has partnered with Zoe Broadcasting Network, which owns and operates Channel 11, so that the latter will be an additional outlet for GMA-produced programs. Zoe entered into a co-production and blocktime agreement with Citynet Marketing and Productions, a subsidiary of GMA Network.

Under the agreement, Citynet shall provide TV programs and shows for Channel 11 while Zoe shall provide the airtime. The agreement involves Channel 11’s daily airtime.

"We are still reviewing what kinds of shows will be aired over Channel 11 so that it will not unduly compete with GMA-7," company officials revealed.

Earlier reports revealed that PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan was in talks with Zoe president Bro. Eddie Villanueva for the acquisition of the broadcasting station. However, sources disclosed that Zoe was not selling.

Pangilinan earlier made an offer to acquire ABC-5 but at that time, the latter was not interested in selling. PLDT later in signed an agreement with GMA Network to acquire a majority stake in the latter but the agreement was set aside.

In another development, GMA Network has signed a carriage agreement for the cable distribution of GMA Pinoy TV in the United States with Comcast, America’s leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products and services.

GMA Pinoy TV is the network’s international channel that will deliver 24/7 programming for overseas Filipinos.

According to GMA International officer in charge Joseph Francia, their objective is to be able to launch GMA Pinoy TV in the US and in key markets in Asia within the first half of the year. Beyond this, he said there’s the important Middle East market, and then Europe.

Francia said that once they produce enough content for Channel 11, GMA will be launching its second international channel.

"Hopefully, we can sign a few more carriage agreements in Asia to build momentum for our much-awaited launch in the US very soon. There are many challenges, including having to compete with ABS-CBN’s The Filipino Channel which has been in the international pay TV business for over 10 years, the different market conditions in the various territories where we want to take Pinoy TV, and securing the best deals for the channel among pay TV operators," he added.

With 21.5 million cable customers and seven million high-speed Internet customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management, and operation of broadband cable networks and in the delivery of programming. It expects to make GMA Pinoy TV available as a subscription channel and to offer content on its video-on-demand service in selected markets.

"Through Comcast, the biggest cable provider in the US, we will be able to serve a large number of Fil-Ams with the best news and public affairs and entertainment programs which are number one in Mega Manila ratings today. We look forward to a fruitful and long-term relationship with Comcast," according to GMA chairman, president and CEO Felipe Gozon.

GMA Pinoy TV is now available to Filipinos in Japan through Access TV and in Guam through Guam Cable Vision.

https://www.philstar.com/business/2005/04/28/275585/gma-network-partners-zoe-broadcasting-channel-11

"Ang Pasko ay Sumapit", yan kasi ang unang kinakanta namin pag nangangaroling kami noong childhood days ko

As far as I can remember, I joined my neighborhood friends when I was 7 and formed our own group of kid carolers. With our creative ingenuity, we equipped ourselves with makeshift instruments, including tambourines made of pipit na tension strung on a piece of wire and drums made from cans or biscuit tins, as we proudly sang the traditional song "Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit" out of our lungs, even out of tune.

The "batang yagit" sporting short pants, T-shirts or sandos and rubber slippers hopping from one house to another every day and night, and the same houses all throughout the Yuletide Season until January 9; singing Jingle Bells, Silent Night, White Christmas, Whispering Hope, Pasko Na Sinta Ko, Joy to the World, Pasko Na Naman, Sana Ngayong Pasko, Star ng Pasko and, Sa May Bahay". After rendering 3 or 4 songs, with the traditional chant of "Namamasko Po", we wait expectantly for the homeowners to reward us with coin, ranging from 0.50 centavos to 2.00 pesos. Afterward, we thank the generous homeowners by singing "Thank you, thank you, ang babait ninyo".

Some homeowners request non-Christmas songs. There was a drunk homeowner who asked us to sing "Lupang Hinirang," "Bahay Kubo," "My Way," "Maybe This Time," "Lead Me Lord," "Tanging Yaman," "May Bukas Pa," and "Kung Tayo'y Magkakalayo." Despite the odds, we sang it with pride and were awarded 5.00 pesos—not bad.

Some stingy homeowners don't entertain carolers which we named "bahay patawad" and others refused to give us coins or drive us away from their house by simply uttering the traditional words "patawad", we return them a song "Thank you, thank you, ang babarat ninyo. Thank you" and start running away from their door.

After three hours of caroling, I still remember the delight I felt when my friends and I split our “earnings” each night.

I wonder if there are any Filipinos in the Philippines that has not experienced the Christmas caroling tradition? Iniisip ko kung ang mga batang mayayaman na kasing edad ko nuon from plush subdivisions ay nagkakaroling rin.

Ikaw, naranasan mo bang mag-karoling?

Bro, Ikaw ang Star ng Pasko and Christmas in our Hearts ❤️

Family is Love

Family is Forever

Thank You Ang Babait Ninyo

Thank You For The Love

Magmahalan Tayo Ngayong Pasko

Isang Pamilya Tayo Ngayong Pasko

Magkasama Tayo sa Kwento ng Pasko

Ikaw ang Liwanag at Ligaya

Isang Puso Ngayong Pasko

Andito Tayo Para sa Isa't Isa

Love Together, Hope Together

Atin ang Pasko, Kapatid

Sama-Samang Ihatid Ang Ibang Saya ng Pasko

Feel na Feel ang Paskong Kapatid

Hatid-Saya ang Paskong Kapatid

Makakarating Ngayong Pasko

Tayo ang Ligaya ng Isa't Isa

Pasko ang Pinakamagandang Kwento

Sa Araw ng Pasko

Pasko sa Pinas

"Ang Pasko ay Sumapit, Christmas in Our Hearts, Star ng Pasko, Thank You Ang Babait Ninyo yan po ang mga gusto ko pong awiting Pamasko"

"Star ng Pasko, Kumukutikutitap, Kampana ng Simbahan... all Christmas songs po..."

GMA takes oath as RP's 14th President

CEBU CITY – Amid the very people that gave her a resounding mandate in the last elections, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo took her oath as the country's 14th President at exactly 12 noon here today.

An assembly of ecstatic Cebuanos and guests that included more than a hundred foreign dignitaries. The Cebu Provincial Capitol provided the backdrop to the historic rites that included full military honors.

Early in the morning, the President delivered her inaugural address at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila. The inaugural in Manila was simple and austere, sans parade and fireworks, but dignified.

Clad in an aquamarine terno the President arrived at the Capitol at 11:45 a.m., 10 minutes after the arrival of Vice President Noli de Castro. She was given arrival honors, including a 21-gun salute by soldiers in green uniforms adorned with yellow stripes, and white pants.

After trooping the line, the President stood on stage and waved to the Cebuano crowd which gave her a little more than a million vote lead over closest rival Fernando Poe, Jr. in the May 10 elections.

Actress Nora Aunor, who supported Ms Macapagal-Arroyo, sang the National Anthem. An ecumenical prayer followed.

Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide, swore in Vice President Noli de Castro at 11:45 a.m. and Macapagal-Arroyo at 12 noon. A 21-gun salute honored the President as she signed her oath of office.

Elected as senator during her first try in politics in 1992, President Macapagal-Arroyo was re-elected senator in 1995 with nearly 16 million votes, the highest number of votes in Philippine history. She was elected vice president of the Philippines in 1998 with almost 13 million votes, also the largest mandate in the history of presidential or vice presidential elections

She was sworn in as the 14th President of the Philippines on 20 January 2001, also by Chief Justice Davide after the Supreme Court unanimously declared the position of President vacant, the second woman to be swept into the presidency by a peaceful people power revolution, now known as EDSA II.

The President, born in April 5, 1947, is the daughter of the late President Diosdado Macapagal, a descendant of Lakandula and fondly known as the "poor boy from Lubao" in the province of Pampanga; and Dr. Evangelina Macaraeg-Macapagal of Binalonan, Pangasinan, who were well known for their integrity and simple but dignified lifestyle.

During the presidency of Diosdado Macapagal, the Philippines was second only to Japan in economic progress in Asia.

President Macapagal-Arroyo upheld the high academic standards of her parents, graduating valedictorian of her high school class in Assumption Convent. She was consistently on the Dean's List during her two-year college stint at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where former US President Bill Clinton became her classmate.

She graduated magna cum laude from Assumption College with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce. She later earned a Master of Arts degree in Economics from the Ateneo de Manila University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of the Philippines.

The President was accompanied in the oath-taking by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, her three children, daughters-in-law, and two grandchildren.

Among the guests who were seated on the stage were foreign dignitaries, local officials, Cabinet members, senators, congressmen, Speaker Jose De Venecia, Senate President Franklin Drilon, and former president Corazon Aquino, who wore an orange gown.

Among the foreign visitors were the minister in charge of international affairs of Morocco, the Korean minister of gender equality, a Myanmar minister, the health minister of Brunei, the First Lady of the Czech Republic, Vice President and Minister of Health of Palau, the Deputy Prime Minister from Swaziland, the Deputy Prime Minister from Thailand, the Senate President of Spain, the Foreign Minister of China, and the US Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

‘Follow new no smoking law’

President Arroyo urged Filipinos yesterday to kick the smoking habit, saying it would not only improve their health but also that of others, especially non-smokers.

Mrs. Arroyo made the appeal a day after she signed a landmark bill into law, the Tobacco Regulation Act, which further tightened government control on tobacco products.

Republic Act 9211, among other stipulations, prohibits smoking in enclosed public places, including public passenger vehicles. It also banned the sale of cigarettes to minors and imposed regulations on cigarette advertisements.

Anti-tobacco activists estimated the number of smokers in the country to go down by 30 percent if the new law is strictly implemented.

An estimated 32 million Filipinos, or 40 percent of the population, smoke.

"That is, if the total ad ban will be truly enforced. The law would be implemented phase-by-phase and we might achieve this result only in 2020," said Encarnita Limpin, president of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Alliance of the Philippines. FCAP is an umbrella organization of anti-tobacco activist groups in the country.

Limpin added that the new law contained some loopholes.

"We are in a way happy because, at least, there would be a regulation but it’s not the law we wanted. We’ll meet to discuss what we can do, but definitely we’ll do something about this," Limpin said.

Her group preferred the law’s original version, authored by Sen. Juan Flavier, which called for health warnings to be prominently printed on the front and reverse sides of cigarette packs.

The new law required warnings to be printed initially on one side of the pack and moved later on to the front. — Marichu Villanueva, Sheila Crisostomo

Read more at https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2003/06/25/211347/145follow-new-no-smoking-law146#i2HE4mMVTOAiSO7W.99

ORDINANCE: APPORTIONING THE SEATS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE PHILIPPINES TO THE DIFFERENT LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS IN PROVINCES AND CITIES AND THE METROPOLITAN MANILA AREA

Section 1. For purposes of the election of Members of the House of Representatives of the First Congress of the Philippines under the Constitution proposed by the 1986 Constitutional Commission and subsequent elections, and until otherwise provided by law, the Members thereof shall be elected from legislative districts apportioned among the provinces, cities, and the Metropolitan Manila Area as follows:

Metropolitan Manila Area

MANILA, six (6) - First District: Barangays Nos. 1-146, N-City Boundary between Manila and Caloocan; E - From Estero de Sunog Apog going South to Estero de Vitas up to the bridge spanning Juan Luna Street, eastward to Tayuman Street up to the Railroad Tracks along Dagupan Street, thence southward to Claro M. Recto Avenue; SE - From point Claro M. Recto Avenue extending westward to Manila Bay; W - Manila Bay northward to City boundary between Manila and Caloocan. Second District: Barangays Nos. 147-267, N - City boundary between Manila and Caloocan; E - From end of Rizal Avenue Extension extending southward to Railroad Tracks at Antipolo Street; from corner Antipolo Street and Rizal Avenue on southern side of Railroad Tracks extending westward to Estero de San Lazaro, southward along Estero de San Lazaro up to corner of C. M. Recto Avenue westward to bridge spanning Claro M. Recto at Estero de la Reina; W - Estero de la Reina to Estero de Vitas to Estero Sunog Apog to City boundary between Manila and Caloocan; Third District: Barangays Nos. 268-394, N - City boundary between Manila and Caloocan; E - A. Bonifacio Street extending southward to Dimasalang, to Anda-lucia, Claro M. Recto Avenue eastward to Estero de San Miguel ending at Pasig River; S - Mouth of Estero de San Miguel at Pasig River, westward to Del Pan Bridge, thence to Del Pan Street; W - Del Pan Street northward up to Claro M. Recto Extension to Estero de San Lazaro, northward to Antipolo Street, eastward to Rizal Avenue Extension, northward to boundary between Manila and Caloocan; Fourth District: Barangays Nos. 395 - 586 SW - Estero de San Miguel up to Mendiola Bridge, thence to C. M. Recto Avenue to Quezon Boulevard; W - Quezon Boulevard, Andalucia, Dimasalang up to boundary between Manila and Quezon City; NE - City boundary between Manila and Quezon City up to Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard; SE - Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard up to V. Mapa Street; S - Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard up to point Estero de San Miguel where Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard spans Estero de San Miguel; Fifth District: Barangays Nos. 649-828 N - Mouth of Pasig River inland to point Paz M. Guanzon Street extending to Estero de Pandacan; NE - Estero de Pandacan up to Pedro Gil Street to Tejeron Street up to boundary of Manila and Makati; SE - City boundary between Manila and Makati up to Estero de Tripa de Gallina; S - City boundary between Pasay and Manila down to Roxas Boulevard up to edge of reclaimed areas westward to Manila Bay; W - Manila Bay up to mouth of Pasig River, Sixth District: Barangays Nos. 587-648; and 829-905 N - Starting from point which is mouth of Estero de San Miguel going eastward to Mendiola Bridge, following line along Estero de San Miguel up to point where Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard eastward to City boundary between Manila and Quezon City; NE - City boundary up to point city boundary of Manila, San Juan and Quezon City; E - Manila-San Juan-Mandaluyong-Makati boundaries up to Tejeron Street; SE - Tejeron Street to Pedro Gil Street up to bridge spanning Estero de Pandacan; SW & W - Estero de Pandacan going northward to Paz M. Guanzon Street, then northward on Paz M. Guazon Street up to Pasig River to mouth of Estero de San Miguel on Pasig River.

QUEZON CITY, four (4) – First District : Barangays Del Monte, Paltok, Bungad, San Antonio, Katipunan, Veterans Village, Talayan, Damayan, Mariblo, Paraiso, Sta. Cruz, Nayong Kanluran, Philam, West Triangle, N.S. Amoranto, Paang Bundok, San Isidro Labrador, Sta. Teresita, Salvacion, Maharlika, St. Peter, Lourdes, Sto. Domingo, Sienna, San Jose, Manresa, Pag-ibig sa Nayon, Balingasa, Masambong, Damar, Bahay Toro, St. Cristo, Ramon Magsaysay, Project 6, Vasra, Alicia, and Bagong Pag-asa; Second District: Barangays Fairview, New Era, Holy Spirit, Batasan Hills, Commonwealth, Payatas, Bagong Silangan, Sauyo, Talipapa, Bagbag, San Bartolome, Sta. Lucia, Gulod, Novaliches Proper, San Agustin, Nagkaisang Nayon, Sta. Monica, Kaligayahan, Pasong Putik, Apolonio Samson, Unang Sigaw, Tandang Sora, Pasong Tamo, Culiat, Baesa, Capri, Balumbato, and Sangandaan: Third District : Barangays E. Rodriguez, Silangan, Quirino 3-A, Duyan-Duyan, Quirino 3-B, Amihan, Socorro, San Roque, Manga, Zobel Dioquino, Tagumpay, Aguinaldo, Escopa 1, Escopa 2, Escopa 3, Escopa 4, West Kamias, East Kamias, Quirino 2 A, Quririno 2 B, Quirino 2 C, Ugong Norte, Bagumbayan, Libis, Villa Maria Clara, Masagana, Milagrosa, Marilag, Bagumbayan, Loyola Heights, Pansol, and Matandang Balara; Fourth District: Barangays Bagong Lipunan, Kaunlaran, San Martin, Immaculate Concepcion, South Triangle, Sacred Heart, Laging Handa, Paligsahan, Obrero, Roxas, Kamuning, Kanluran, Kamuning Silangan, Tatalon, Don Manuel, Dona Josefa, San Isidro, Dona Aurora, Santo Nino, Santol, Dona Imelda, Kristong Hari, Kalusugan, Damayang Lagi, Mariana, Valencia, Horseshoe, Pinagkaisahan, San Vicente, U.P. Campus, Krus Na Ligas, Central, Old Capital Site, U.P. Village, Teacher’s East, Teacher’s West, Sikatuna, Malaya, Pinahan, and Botocan.

CALOOCAN CITY, two (2) – First District : 70 Barangays; All of Caloocan North EDSA; Second District: 118 Barangays; All of Caloocan South EDSA.

PASAY CITY, one (1)

MALABON CITY and NAVOTAS, one (1)

SAN JUAN, one (1)

MANDALUYONG CITY, one (1)

MARIKINA, one (1)

MAKATI, one (1)

PASIG, one (1)

PARANAQUE, one (1)

LAS PINAS, one (1)

MUNTINLUPA, one (1)

PATEROS and TAGUIG, one (1)


VALENZUELA, one (1)

Cordillera Administrative Region

ABRA, one (1)

APAYAO, one (1)

BAGUIO CITY, one (1)

BENGUET, one (1)

IFUGAO, one (1)

KALINGA, one (1)

MOUNTAIN PROVINCE, one (1)

REGION I

ILOCOS NORTE, with Batac and Laoag Cities, two (2) - First District: Laoag City and the Municipalities of Bacarra, Bangui, Burgos, Pagud-Pagud, Pasuquin, Piddig, Sarrat, Vintar, Adams, Carasi, and Dumalneg; Second District: Batac City and Municipalities of Angela, Badoc, Banna, Currimao, Dingras, Marcos, Nueva Era, Paoay, Pinili, Ramos, San Nicolas, Solsona and Valdez.

ILOCOS SUR, with Candon, Navarcan and Vigan Cities, two (2) - First District: Vigan City and Municipalities of Bantay, Cabugao, Caoayan, Magsingal, San Ildefonso, San Juan, San Vicente, San Catalina, Santo Domingo and Sinait; Second District: Candon City, Navarcan City, and Municipalities of Alilem, Banayoyo, Burgos, Cervantes, Galimuyod, Gregorio del Pilar, Lidlidda, Nagbukel, Quirino, Salcedo, San Emilio, San Esteban, Santa, Santa Cruz, Santa Lucia, Santa Maria, Santiago, Suyo, Tagudin, Sigay, and Sugpon.

LA UNION, with the City of San Fernando, two (2) - First District: City of San Fernando and Municipalities of Bacnotan, Balaoan, Bangar, Luna, San Gabriel, San Juan, Santol, and Sudipen; Second District: Municipalities of Agoo, Aringay, Bagulin, Bauang, Burgos, Caba, Naguilian, Pugo, Rosario, Santo Tomas, and Tubao.

PANGASINAN, with the Cities of Dagupan and San Carlos, six (6) – First District: Municipalities of Bolinao, Bani, Agno, Burgos, Dasol, Infanta, Mabini, Alaminos, Anda and Sual; Second District: Municipalities of Labrador, Lingayen, Bugallon, Aguilar, Mangatarem, Binmaley, Urbiztondo, and Basista; Third District: San Carlos City, and the Municipalities of Malasiqui, Bayambang, Calasiao, Mapandan, and Sta. Barbara; Fourth District: Dagupan City and the Municipalities of Mangaldan, San Fabian, San Jacinto, and Manaoag; Fifth District: Municipalities of Binalonan, Laoac, Urdaneta, Villasis, Sison, Pozorrubio, Bautista, Alcala, and Sto. Tomas; Sixth District: Municipalities of Rosales, Asingan, Balungao, Sta. Maria, Umingan, San Quintin, Natividad, Tayug, San Nicolas, and San Manuel.

REGION II

BATANES, one (1)

CAGAYAN, three (3) – First District: Municipalities of Aparri, Camalaniugan, Lallo, Buguey, Sta. Teresita, Gonzaga, Sta. Ana, Gattaran, Baggao, and Alcala; Second District: Municipalities of Sta. Praxedes, Sanchez Mira, Claveria, Pamplona, Abulug, Ballesteros, Allacapan, Lasam, Sto. Nino, Rizal, Piat, and Calayan; Third District: Municipalities of Tuguegarao, Solana, Enrile, Penablanca, Iguig, Amulung, and Tuao.

ISABELA, four (4) – First District: Municipalities of Sta. Maria,San Pablo, Cabagan, Sto. Tomas, Albano, Tumauini, Ilagan, Divilican, Maconacon, and Palanan; Second District: Municipalities of Aurora, San Manuel, Roxas, Mallig, Quezon, Quirino, Burgos, Gamu, Naguilian, Benito Soliven, An Mariano; Third District: Municipalities of Reina Mercedes, Cauayan, Luna, Cabatuan, San Mateo, Alicia, Angadanan, and San Guillermo; Fourth District: Municipalities Cordon, Santiango, Ramon, San Isidro, Echague, Jones, San Agustin, and Dinapigui.

NUEVA VIZCAYA, one (1)

QUIRINO, one (1)

REGION III

AURORA, one (1)

BATAAN, with Balanga City, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Dinalupihan, Hermosa, Orani, Samal, Abucay, and Morong, Second District: Balanga City and the Municipalities of Pilar, Orion, Limay, Bagac, Mariveles.

BULACAN, with Malolos City and San Jose del Monte City, four (4) – First District : Malolos City and the Municipalities of Hagonoy, Paombong, Calumpit, Pulilan, and Bulacan; Second Distict: Municipalities Baliuag, Bustos, Plaridel, Guiguinto, Balagtas, Pandi, and Bocaue; Third District: Municipalities of San Miguel, San Ildefonso, San Rafael, Angat, Norzagaray, and Remedios Trinidad; Fourth District: Municipalities of San Jose del Monte, Sta. Maria, Marilao, Meycauayan,, and Obando.

NUEVA ECIJA, with the Cities of Cabanatuan, Palayan and San Jose, four (4) – First District: Municipalities of Nampicuan, Cuyapo, Guimba, Quezon, Talavera, Licab, Sto. Domingo, Aliaga, and Zaragoza, Second District: San Jose City and the Municipalities of Lupao, Munoz, Talugtog, Caranglan, Pantabangan, Lanera, and Rizal; Third District: Cabanatuan City; Palayan City, and the Municipalities of General Natividad, Bongabong, Laur, Gabaldon, and Sta. Rosa, Fourth District: Municipalities of San Leonardo, General Tinio, Penaranda, Gapan, San Isidro, Cabiao, San Antonio, and Jaen.

PAMPANGA, with Angeles City, four (4) – First District : Angeles City and the Municipalities of Mabalacat and Magalang; Second District: Municipalities of Lubao, Guagua, Floridablanca, Porac, Sta. Rita, and Sexmoan; Third District: Municipalities of San Fernando, Arayat,Mexico, Bacolor, and Sta. ana; Fourth District: Municipalities of Candaba, Apalit, Macabebe, Masantol, Minalin, Sto. Tomas, San Luis, and San Simon.

TARLAC, with Tarlac City, three (3) – First District: Municipalities of Mayantoc, Sta. Ignacia, Camiling, Moncada, San Manuel, Anao, Paniqui, Ramos, San Clemente, and Pura; Second District: Tarlac City and Municipalities of Gerona, Victoria and San Jose; Third District: Municipalities of Bamban, Capas, Concepcion, and La Paz.


ZAMBALES, with Olongapo City, two (2) – First District: Olongapo City and the Municipalities of Subic, Castillejos, and San Marcelino, Second District: Municipalities of Botolan, Cabangan, Candelaria, Iba, Masinloc, Palauig, San Antonio, San Felipe, San Narciso, and Sta. Cruz.

REGION IV

ANTIPOLO CITY, one (1)

AURORA, one (1)

BATANGAS, with the Cities of Batangas and Lipa, four (4) – First District: Municipalities of Nasugbu, Lian, Calatagan, Balayan, Tuy, Calaca, Lemery, and Taal; Second District: Batangas City and the Municipalities of Lobo, San Pascual, Bauan, Mabini, San Luis, and Tingloy; Third District: Municipalities of Balete, Malvar, Sto. Tomas, Tanauan, Talisay, Laurel, Agoncillo, San Nicolas, Sta. Teresita, Alitagtag, Cuenca, and Mataas na Kahoy; Fourth District : Lipa City and the Municipalities of San Juan, Taysan, Rosario, P. Garcia, Ibaan, and San Jose.

CAVITE, with the Cities of Tagaytay, Cavite and Trece Martires, three (3) – First District: Cavite City and the Municipalities of Bacoor, Kawit, Noveleta, and Rosario; Second District: Trece Martires City and the Municipalities of Imus, Dasmarinas, Carmona, Gen. Mariano Alvarez, General Trias, and Tanza; Third District: Tagaytay City and the Municipalities of Alfonso, Amadeo, General Aguinaldo, Indang, Magallanes, Maragondon, Mendez-Nunez, Naic, Silang, and Ternate.

LAGUNA, with San Pablo City, four (4) – First District: Municipalities of Binan, San Pedro and Sta. Rosa; Second District: Municipalities of Bay, Cabuyao, Calamba, and Los Banos; Third District: San Pablo City and the Municipalities of Calauan, Alaminos, Rizal, Nagcarlan, Liliw, and Victoria: Fourth District: Municipalities of Sta. Cruz, Pila, Lumban, Pagsanjan, Cavinti, Kalayaan, Paete, Pakil, Pangil, Siniloan, Famy, Mabitac, Sta. Maria, Magdalena, Luisiana, and Majayjay.

MARINDUQUE, one (1)

OCCIDENTAL MINDORO, one (1)

ORIENTAL MINDORO, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Baco, Calapan, Naujan, Puerto Galera, San Teodoro,Victoria, Pola, and Socorro; Second District: Municipalities of Bansud, Bongabon, Bulalakao, Gloria, Mansalay, Pinamalayan, and Roxas.

PALAWAN, with Puerto Princesa City, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Agutaya, Araceli, Busuanga, Cagayancillo, Coron, Cuyo, Dumaran, El Nido, Linapacan, Magsaysay, Roxas, San Vicente, Taytay, and Kalayaan; Second District: Puerto Princesa City and the Municipalities of Aborlan, Balabac, Batarasa, Brooke’s Point, Narra, Quezon, and Marcos.

QUEZON, with Lucena City, four (4) – First District: Municipalities of Burdeos, Gen. Nakar, Infanta, Jumalig, Panukulan, Patnanungan, Polilio, Real, Sampaloc, Mauban, Pagbilao, Lucban, and Tayabas; Second District: Lucena city and Municipalities of Candelaria, Dolores, San Antonio, Sariaya, and Tiaong; Third District: Municipalities of Catanauan, Gen. Luna, Macalelon, Mulanay, Pitogo, San Andres, San Francisco, San Narciso, Buenavista, Padre Burgos, Agdangan, and Unisan; Fourth District: Municipalities of Calauag, Guinayangan, Gumaca, Lopez, Tagkawayan, Atimonan, Plaridel, Alabat, Perez, and Quezon

RIZAL, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Antipolo, Taytay, Cainta, Angono, and Binangonan; Second District: Municipalities of E. Rodriguez,San Mateo, Morong, Cardona, Teresa, Baras, Tanay, Pililla, and Jala-Jala.

ROMBLON, one (1)

REGION V

ALBAY, with Legazpi City, three (3) – First District: Municipalities of Bacacay, Malinao, Malilipot, Santo Domingo, Tabaco, and Tiwi, Second District: Legazpi City and the Municipalities of Camalig, Daraga, Manito, and Rapu-Rapu; Third District: Municipalities of Guinobatan, Jovellar, Libon, Ligao, Oas, Pio Duran, and Polangui.

CAMARINES NORTE, one (1)

CAMARINES SUR, including the Cities of Naga and Iriga, four (4) – First District: Municipalities of Del Gallego, Ragay, Lupi, Sipocot, Libmanan, Cabusao, Pamplona, Pasacao, Minalabac, and San Fernando, Second District : Naga City and the Municipalities of Bonbon, Calabanga, Camaligan, Canaman, Gainza, Magarao, Milaor, Ocampo, and Pili; Third District: Municipalities of Caramoan, Garchitorena, Goa, Lagonoy, Presentacion, Sangay, San Jose, Tigaon, Tinambac, and Siruma; Fourth District: Iriga City and the Municipalities of Baao, Balatan, Bato, Buhi, Bula, and Nabua.

CATANDUANES, one (1)

MASBATE, three (3) – First District Municipalities of San Pascual, Claveria, Monreal, San Jacinto, San Fernando, and Batuan; Second District: Municipalities of Masbate, Mobo, Milagros, Aroroy, Baleno, Balud, and Mandaon; Third District: Municipalities of Uson, Dimasalang, Palanas, Cataingan, Pio V. Corpuz, Esperanza, Placer, and Cawayan.

SORSOGON, with Sorsogon City, two (2) – First District: Sorsogon City and the Municipalities of Pilar, Donsol, Castilla, Casiguran, and Magallanes; Second District: Municipalities of Barcelona, Prieto Diaz, Gubat, Juban, Bulusan, Irosin, Sta. Magdalena, Matnog, and Bulan.

REGION VI

AKLAN, one (1)

ANTIQUE, one (1)

CAPIZ, including Roxas City, two (2) – First District: Roxas City and the Municipalities of Panay, Pilar, Pontevedra, President Roxas, Ma-ayon, and Panitan; Second District: Municipalities of Dumalag, Jamindan, Mambusao, Sapian, Sigma, Tapaz, Cuartero, Dao, Dumarao, and Ivisan.

GUIMARAS, one (1)

ILOILO, five (5) – First District: Municipalities of Guimbal, Igbaras, San Joaquin, Tigbauan, Tubungan, Miagao, and Oton; Second District; Municipalities of Pavia, Leganes, Sta. Barbara, New Lucena, Zarraga, Alimodian, Leon, and San Miguel; Third District: Municipalities of Maasin, Cabatuan, Janiuay, Badiangan, Mina, Pototan, Calinog, Lambunao, and Bingawan; Fourth District: Municipalities of Passi, San Enrique, Duenas, Dingle, Barotac Nuevo, Dumangas, Anilao, and Banate; Fifth District: Municipalities of Barotac Viejo, San Rafael, Ajuy, Lemery, Concepcion, Sara, San Dionisio, Batad, Estancia, Balasan, and Carles.

ILOILO CITY, one (1)

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, with the Cities of San Carlos, Cadiz, Bago, La Carlota, and Silay, six (6) – First District: San Carlos City and the Municipalities of Toboso, Calatrava, Escalante, and S. Benedicto; Second District: Cadiz City and the Municipalities of Sagay and Manapla; Third District: Silay City and the Municipalities of Victorias, Enrique B. Magalona, Talisay, and Murcia; Fourth District: Bago City and the Municipalities of Valladolid, San Enrique, Pontevedra, Pulupandan, and La Carlota; Fifth District: Municipalities of La Castellana, Moises Padilla, Isabela, Binalbagan, Himamaylan, and Hinigaran; Sixth District: Municipalities of Kabankalan, Ilog, Cauayan, Candoni, Sipalay, and Hinobaan.

BACOLOD CITY, one (1)

REGION VII

BOHOL, with Tagbilaran City, three (3) – First District: Tagbilaran City and the Municipalities of Alburquerque, Antequera, Baclayon, Balilihan, Calape, Catigbian, Corella, Cortes, Dauis, Loon, Maribojoc, Panglao, Sikatuna, and Tubigon; Second District: Municipalities of Clarin, Inabangan, Sagbayan, Buenavista, Jetafe, Dagohoy, Danao, San Miguel, Trinidad, Talibon, Ubay, Bien Unido, San Isidro, and Pres. C. P. Garcia; Third District: Municipalities of Loay, Loboc, Bilar, Batuan, Carmen, Sevilla, Lila, Dimiao, Valencia, Garcia-Hernandez, Jagna, Duero, Guindulman, Candijay, Mabini, Alicia, Anda, Sierra Bullones, and Pilar.

CEBU, with the Cities of Danao, Lapu-Lapu, Mandaue, and Toledo, six (6) – First District: Municipalities of Talisay, Minglanilla, Naga, San Fernando, Carcar, and Sibongan; Second District: Municipalities of Argao, Dalaguete, Alcoy, Boljoon, Oslob, Santander, Samboan, Ginatilan, Malabuyoc, Alegria, Badian, Moal- boal, Alcantara, Ronda, and Dumanjug; Third District: Toledo City and the Municipalities of Barili, Alonguinsan, Pinamungajan, Balamban, Asturias, and Tuburan; Fourth District: Municipalities of Tabuelan, San Remigio, Sta. Fe, Bantayan, Madridejos, Daan- bantayan, Medellin, Bogo, and Tabogon; Fifth District: Danao City and the Municipalities of Borbon, Sogod, Catmon, Carmen, Compostela, Liloan, San Francisco, Poro, Tudela, and Pilar; Sixth District: Lapu-lapu City, Mandanue City, and the Municipalities of Cordova and Consolacion.

CEBU CITY, two (2) – First District: Barangays of Adlawon, Agsungot, Apas, Bacayan, Banilad, Binaliw, Budla-an, Busay, Cmbinocot, Camputhaw, Capitol Site, Carreta, Central Proper, Cogon-Ramos, Day-as, Ermita, Guba, Hipodromo, Kalubihan, Kamagayan, Kasambagan, Lahug, Lorega, Lusaran, Luz, Mabini, Mabolo, Malubog, Pahina Central, Parian, Paril, Pit-os, Pulang Bato, Sambag 1, Sambag 11, San Antonio, San Jose, San Roque, Sta. Cruz, Sirao, T. Padilla, Talamban, Taptap, Tejero, Tinago, and Zapatera; Second District: Barangays of Babag, Basak Pardo, Basak San Nicolas, Bonbon, Buhisan, Bulacao pardo, Bout-Taup, Calamba, Cogon Pardo, Duljo Fatima, Guadalupe, Inayawan, Kalunasan, Kinasang-an Pardo, Labangon, Mambaling, Pahina San Nicolas, Pamutan, Pardo, Pasil Abuno, Sibugay, Punta Princesa, Quiot, San Nicolas, Sawang Calero, Sinsin, Suba Pasil, Sudlon, Sapangdako, Tabunan, Tigbao, Tisa, and Toong.

NEGROS ORIENTAL, with the Cities of Bais, Canlaon, and Dumaguete, three (3) – First District: Canlaon City and the Municipalities of Vallehermoso, Guihulngan, La Libertad, Jimalalud, Tayasan, Ayungon, Bindoy, and Manjuyod; Second District: Bais City, Dumaguete City, and the Municipalities of Mabinay, Tanjay, Pamplona, Amlan, San Jose, and Sibulan; Third District: Municipalities of Valencia, Bacong, Dauin, Zamboanguita, Siaton, Sta. Catalina, Bayawan, and Basay.

SIQUIJOR, one (1)

REGION VIII

BILIRAN, one (1).

EASTERN SAMAR, one (1).


LEYTE, with the Cities of Tacloban and Ormoc, five (5) – First District: Tacloban City and the municipalities of Alangalang, Babatngon, Palo, San Miguel, Sta. Fe, Tanauan, and Talosa; Second District: Municipalities of Barugo, Barauen, Capoocan, Carigara, Dagami, Dulag, Jaro, Julita, La Paz, Mayorga, MacArcthur, Pastrana, Tabontabon, and Tunga; Third District: Municipalities of Almeria, Biliran, Cabucgayan, Caibiran, Calubian, Culaba, Kawayan, Leyte, Maripipi, Naval, San Isidro, Tabango, and Villaba; Fourth District: Ormoc city and the Municipalities of Albuera, Isabel, Kananga, Matagob, Merida, and Palompon; Fifth District: Municipalities of Abuyog, Bato, Baybay, Hilongos, Hindang, Inopacan, Javier, Mahaplag, and Matalom.

NORTHERN SAMAR, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Allen, Biri, Bobon, Capul, Catarman, Lavezares, Lope de Vega, Rosario, San Antonio, San Isidro, San Jose, San Vicente, Victoria, and Mondragon; Second District: Municipalities of Silvino Lobos, San Roque, Pambuyan, Las Navas, Catubig, Laoang, Palapag, Mapanas, Gamay, and Lapinig.

SAMAR, with Calbayog City, two (2) – First District: Calbayog City and the Municipalities of almagro, Gandara, Matuguinao, Pag- sanghan, San Jorge, Santa Margarita, Sto. Nino, Tagapul-an, and Tarangnan; Second District: Municipalities of Basey, Calbiga, Catbalogan, Daram, Hinabangan, San Jose de Buan, Jiabong, Marabut, Motiong, Pinabacadao, San Sebastian, Sta. Rita, Talalora, Villareal, Wright, and Zumarraga.

SOUTHERN LEYTE, one (1).

REGION IX

ZAMBOANGA CITY, one (1)

ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE, with the Cities of Dapitan and Dipolog, three (3) – First District: Dapitan City and the Municipalities of Sibutad, Rizal, La Libertad, Mutia, Pinan, Sergio Osmena, Sr., and Polanco; Second District: Dipolog City and the Municipalities of Katipunan, Pres. Manuel A. Roxas, Manukan, Ponot, Siayan, and Sindangan; Third District: Municipalities of Salug; Godod, Liloy, Tampilisan, Labason, Gutalac, Siocon, Baliquian, Siraway, Bacungan, and Sibuco.

ZAMBOANGA DEL SUR, with Pagadian City, three (3) – First District: Pagadian City and the Municipalities of Dumingag, Mahayag, Molave, Tambulig, Midsalip, R. Magsaysay, Labangan, Aurora, Tukuran, Josefina, and Don Mariano Marcos; Second District: Municipalities of Dumalinao, San Pablo, Tabina, Dima- taling, Dinas, San Miguel, Margosatubig, Lapuyan, Kumalarang, Bayog, Lakewood, Pitogo, and Vincenzo A. Sagun.

ZAMBOANGA SIBUGAY, one (1)

REGION X

BUKIDNON, three (3) – First District: Municipalities of Talakag, Baungon, Malitbog, Libona, Manolo Fortich, Sumialo, Panganto-can, and Kalilangan; Second District: Municipalities of Malay-balay, Lantapan, Cabanglasan, Valencia, San Fernando, and Impasugong; Third District: Municipalities of Maramag, Quezon, Don Carlos, Kitaotao, Dangcagan, Kibawe, Damulog, and Kadingilan.

CAMIGUIN, one (1)

MISAMIS OCCIDENTAL, with the Cities of Oroquieta, Ozamiz and Tangub, two (2) – First District: Oroquieta City and the Municipalities of Baliangao, Plaridel, Calamba, Sapang Dalaga, Lopez Jaena, Aloran, Concepcion, Panaon, and Jimenez; Second District: Ozamiz City, Tangub City, and the Municipalities of Bonifacio, Tudela, Clarin, Sinacaban, and Don Mariano Marcos.

MISAMIS ORIENTAL, with Gingoog City, two (2) – First District: Gingoog City and the Municipalities of Magsaysay, Talisayan, Balingoan, Medina, Kinogitan, Sugbongcogon, Binuangan, Salay, Lagonglong, and Balingasag; Second District: Municipalities of Claveria, Jasaan, Villanueva, Tagoloan, Alubijid, El Salvador, Gitagum, Initao, Laguindingan, Libertad, Lugait, Manticao, Naawan, and Opol.

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, one (1)

LANAO DEL NORTE, with Iligan City, two (2) – First District: Iligan City, Linamon, Kauswagan,Bacolod, Maigo, Kolambugan, Tubod, and Baroy; Second District: Baloi, Pantar, Tagoloan, Poona-Piagapo, Pantao-Ragat, Matungao, Tangkal, Munai, Nunungan, Magsaysay,Salvador, Kapatagan, Karomatan. Sapad, and Lala.

REGION XI

DAVAO DEL NORTE, three (3) – First District: Municipalities of Moncayo, Montevista, Compostela, Nabunturan, New Bataan, Mawab, and San Mariano; Second District: Municipalities of San Vicente, Capalong,Asuncion, New Corella, Tagum, Maco, Mabini, and Pantukan; Third District: Municipalities of Sto. Tomas, Carmen, Panabo, Babak, Samal, and Kaputian.

DAVAO ORIENTAL, two (2) – First District: Municipalities ofBoston, Cateel, Baganga, Caraga, Manay, andTarragona; Second District: Municipalities of Mati, Banaybanay, Lupon,San Isidro, and Governor Generoso.

DAVAO DEL SUR, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Magsaysay, Bansalan, Sta. Cruz, Matanao, Digos, Hagonoy, and Padada; Second District: Municipalities of Kiblawan, Sulop, Malalag, Sta. Maria, Malita, Jose Abad Santos, Don Marcelino, and Saranggani.

DAVAO CITY, three (3) – First District: Districts of Poblacion and Talomo; Second District: Districts of Buhangin, Bunawan, and Paquibato; Third District: Districts of Toril, Tugbok, Calinan, andBaguio.

REGION XII

NORTH COTABATO, with Kidapawan City, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Carmen, Kabacan, Libungan, Midsayap, Pigkawayan, Pikit, Aleosan, Banisilan, and Alamada; Second District: Kidapawan City and the Municipalities of Makilala, Matalam, Antipas, Mlang, Pres. Roxas Tulunan, and Magpet.

SARANGANI, one (1)

SOUTH COTABATO, with General Santos and Koronadal Cities, two (2) – First District: General Santos City, and the Municipalities of Polomolok, Tampakan, and Tupi; Second District: Municipalities of Tantangan, Norala, Banga, Sto. Nino, Surallah, Koronadal, Tiboli, and Lake Sebu.


SULTAN KUDARAT, one (1)

REGION XIII

AGUSAN DEL NORTE, with the City of Butuan, two (2) – First District: Butuan City and the Municipality of Las Nieves, Second District: Municipalities of Buenavista, Cabadbaran, Carmen, Jabonga, Kitcharao, Magallanes, Nasipit, Santiago, Tubay, and Remedios T. Romualdez.

AGUSAN DEL SUR, one (1)

SURIGAO DEL NORTE, with the City of Surigao, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Sta. Monica, San Isidro, Del Carme, Pilar, General Luna, Dapa, Socorro, Burgos, San Benito, Loreto, Libjo, Dinagat, Cagdianao, Tubajon, and Basilisa; Second District: Surigao City and the Municipalities of San Francisco, Tagana-an, Sison, Placer, Malimono, Bacauag, Gigaquit, Tubod, Mainit, Alegria, and Claver.

SURIGAO DEL SUR, two (2) – First District: Municipalities of Bayabas, Cantilan, Carrascal, Cortes, Lanuza, Madrid, San Miguel, Tago, Tandag, Cagwit, Marihatag, San Agustin, Carmen, and Lianga; Second District: Municipalities of Barobo, Bislig, Hinatuan, Lingig, and Tagbina.

REGION XIV

BASILAN, one (1)

LANAO DEL SUR, with Marawi City, (2) - First District: Marawi City and the Municipalities of Marantao, Piagapo, Saguiaran, Tagoloan, Kapai, Ditsaan-Ramain, Bubong, Buadiposo-Buntong, Bumbaran, Maguing, Wao, Molundo, Taraka, Lumba-Bayabao, Poona-Bayabao, Masiu and Tamparan; Second District: Municipalities of Balindong, Tugaya, Bacolod Grande, Madalum, Madamba, Pualas, Ganassi, Pagayawan, Sultan Gumander, Malabang, Balabagan, Kapatagan, Marogong, Tubaran, Binidayan, Lumbatan, Lumbayanague, Butig, Bayang and Calanogas.

MAGUINDANAO, with Cotabato City, two (2) – First District: Cotabato City and the Municipalities of Parang, Sultan Kudarat, Buldon, Barira, Dinaig, Kabuntalan, Matanog and Upi; Second District: Municipalities of Pagalunga, Buluan, Sultan sa Barongis, Maganoy, Talaya, South Upi, Datu Piang, Datu Paglas, and Ampatuan.

SULU, two (2) - First District: Municipalities of Jolo, Marungas, Indanan, Pangutaran, Parang, Talipao, Maimbung, and Patikul; Second District: Municipalities of Siasi, Pandami, Pata, Luuk, K. Culuang, Panamao, New Panamao, Tapul, Lungus and Tongkil.

TAWI-TAWI, one (1)

Section 2. The Commission on Elections is hereby empowered to make minor adjustments of the reapportionment herein made.

Section 3. Any province that may hereafter be created, or any city whose population may hereafter increase to more than two hundred fifty thousand shall be entitled in the immediately following election to at least one Member or such number of Members as it may be entitled to on the basis of the number of its inhabitants and according to the standards set forth in paragraph (3), Section 5 of Article VI of the Constitution. The number of Members apportioned to the province out of which such new province was created or where the city, whose population has so increased, is geographically located shall be correspondingly adjusted by the Commission on Elections but such adjustment shall not be made within one hundred and twenty days before the election.

Section 4. This Ordinance shall be appended to the Constitution proposed by the 1986 Constitutional Commission, and shall be submitted to a plebiscite simultaneously with such Constitution, and shall take effect upon its ratification by a majority of the votes cast in such plebiscite.

MEMBERS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COMMISSION [CON COM] WHICH DRAFTED THE 1987 CONSTITUTION OF THE PHILIPPINES

Cecilia Munoz Palma

President

Ambrosio B. Padilla

Vice-President

Napoleon G. Rama

Floor Leader

Ahmad Domocao Alonto

Assistant Floor Leader

Jose D. Calderon

Assistant Floor Leader

Yusuf R. Abubakar

Felicitas S. Aquino

Adolfo S. Azcuna

Teodoro C. Bacani

Jose F. S. Bengzon, Jr.

Ponciano L. Bennagen

Joaquin G. Bernas

Florangel Rosario Braid

Crispino M. de Castro

Jose C. Colayco

Roberto R. Concepcion

Hilario G. Davide, Jr.

Vicente B. Foz

Edmundo G. Garcia

Jose Luis Martin C. Gascon

Serafin V.C. Guingona

Alberto M. K. Jamir

Jose B. Laurel, Jr.

Eulogio R. Lerum

Regalado E. Maambong

Christian S. Monsod

Teodulo C. Natividad

Ma. Teresa F. Nieva

Jose N. Nolledo

Blas F. Ople

Minda Luz M. Quesada

Florenz D. Regalado

Rustico F. de los Reyes, Jr.

Cirilo A. Rigos

Francisco A. Rodrigo

Ricardo J. Romulo

Decoroso R. Rosales

Rene V. Sarmiento

Jose E. Suarez

Lorenzo M. Sumulong

Jaime S. L. Tadeo

Christine O. Tan

Gregorio J. Tingson

Efrain B. Trenas

Lugum L. Uka

Wilfrido V. Villacorta

Bernardo M. Villegas

Attested by:

Flerida Ruth P. Romero

Secretary-General

Sources: Own work, GADM Global Administrative Areas Database (http://gadm.org/, version 3.6, 2018), Google Earth, based from Open Street Map imagery, 8th Congress: House Bill No. 3 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Pascual in The Province of Bohol”, House Bill No. 66 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Jose in The Province of Davao Del Sur”, House Bill No. 68 “An Act Creating the Municipality of B’laan In the Province of Davao Del Sur”, House Bill No. 132 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Governor Monito Lianos, Sr. In the Province of Davao Del Sur”, House Bill No. 133 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Tagacaolo In the Province of Davao Del Sur”, House Bill No. 242 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Dumanquilas In the Province of Zamboanga Del Sur”, House Bill No. 243 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Rebokon In the Province of Zamboanga Del Sur”, House Bill No. 259 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Culasi In the Province of Iloilo”, House Bill No. 351 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Don Alejandro, In the Province of Agusan Del Sur”, House Bill No. 417 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Don Manuel Medel, Sr. In the Province of Davao Del Sur”, House Bill No. 418 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Ticulon In the Province of Davao Del Sur”, House Bill No. 657 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Tag-Abaca in The Province of Surigao Del Norte”, House Bill No. 891 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Higinio Mendoza Sr. In the Province of Palawan”, House Bill No. 982 “An Act Creating the Province of Zamboanga Occidental”, House Bill No. 985 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Ramon in The Island of Burias, Province of Masbate”, House Bill No. 1534 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Libutan In the Province of Maguindanao”, House Bill No. 1975 “An Act Creating Ten (10) New Barangays in The Municipality of Muntinlupa”, House Bill No. 2325 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Bubuan In the Province of Zamboanga Del Sur”, House Bill No. 2481 “An Act Creating Barangay Bagumbayan In the Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 2482 “An Act Creating Barangay La Milagrosa In the Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 2701 “An Act Creating Barangay Provident Village In the Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 3501 “An Act Creating Barangay Grand Villas in The Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 3502 “An Act Creating Barangay Fairlane In the Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 3288 “An Act Creating Barangay Mountain View in The Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 3290 “An Act Creating Barangay Paliparan In the Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 3291 "An Act Creating Barangay Rancho Estate in The Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 3609 “An Act Creating Barangay San Isidro in The Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 3610 “An Act Creating Barangay Sta Teresita In the Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 4696 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Belance In the Province of Nueva Vizcaya”, House Bill No. 5876 “An Act Constituting New Barangays to Be Known as Barangays North Longos And Barangay South Longos From the Present Barangay Longos In the Municipality of Malabon, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 5877 “An Act Constituting New Barangays to Be Known as Barangays North Potrero, South Potrero, Central Potrero, And East Potrero From the Present Barangay Potrero In the Municipality of Malabon, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 5878 “An Act Constituting New Barangay to Be Known as Barangay San Lorenzo Ruiz From the Present Barangay North Bay Boulevard South in The Municipality of Navotas, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 7006 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Pilas In the Province of Basilan”, House Bill No. 7326 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Senuyak In the Province of Zamboanga Del Norte”, House Bill No. 8495 “ An Act Creating the Municipality of Rosario In the Province of Cagayan”, House Bill No. 8496 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Ninoy Aquino In the Province of Cagayan”, House Bill No. 8732 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Janopol In the Province of Bohol”, House Bill No. 8928 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Tamblot In the Province of Bohol”, House Bill No. 14270 “An Act Creating Barangay Katipunan In the Municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila”, House Bill No. 17492 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Oscariz From Contiguous Barangays of Ramon and San Mateo, Isabela”, House Bill No. 17931 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Benigno Aquino In the Province of Aurora”, House Bill No. 21621 “An Act Creating Barangay Carmel In the First District of Quezon City”, House Bill No. 24470 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Del Monte in The Province of Agusan del Sur”, House Bill No. 25041 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Talisay In the Province of Samar”, House Bill No. 25847 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Claudio Sandoval In the Province of Palawan”, House Bill No. 25622 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Bianoan In the Province of Aurora”, House Bill No. 26539 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Iling In the Province of Occidental Mindoro”, House Bill No. 26571 “ An Act Creating the Municipality of Magsaysay In the Province of Samar”, House Bill No. 27570 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Daguma, In the Province of Sultan Kudarat”, House Bill No. 27940 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Miguel in The Province of Surigao Del Norte”, House Bill No. 28462 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Sibungan Torreta In the Province of Cotabato”, House Bill No. 29026 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Matigsalug In the Province of Bukidnon”, House Bill No. 30881 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Sto. Domingo In the Province of Davao Oriental”, House Bill No. 31873 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Kraan In the Province of Sultan Kudarat”, House Bill No. 31993 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Villamonte In the Province of Sultan Kudarat”, House Bill No. 32158 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Hibobollao In the Province of Northern Samar”, House Bill No. 32719 “ An Act Creating the Municipality of Matigsalug In the Province of Bukidnon”, House Bill No. 32980 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Masaguisi In the Province of Oriental Mindoro”, House Bill No. 33414 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Ramon in The Province of Masbate”, House Bill No. 33466 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Malingao In the Province of Lanao Del Norte”, House Bill No. 33619 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Cal-Owan In the Province of Kalinga-Apayao”, House Bill No. 34041 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Sitog In the Province of Zamboanga Del Norte”, House Bill No. 34120 “An Act Granting the Municipality of Bansa In Mountain Province”, House Bill No. 34565 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Benigno Aquino, Jr. In the Province of Cotabato”, House Bill No. 34697 “An Act Constituting Sitios Of Old Bosoboso Proper, Kaysakat, Painaan, Pinugay And Kilingan, All in Barangay San Jose, Municipality of Antipolo, Province of Rizal, Into A New Barangay to Be Known as Barangay Bosoboso”, 9th Congress: House Bill No. 59 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Higinio A. Mendoza, Sr. In the Province of Palawan”, House Bill No. 191 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Claudio Sandoval In the Province of Palawan”, House Bill No. 427 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Sangay In the Province of Agusan Del Norte”, House Bill No. 460 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Pascual in The Province of Bohol”, House Bill No. 547 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Miguel in The Province of Surigao del Norte”, 10th Congress: House Bill No. 766 “An Act Creating The Municipality of San Ramon In The Province of Masbate”, House Bill No. 6221 “An Act Creating The Municipality of Valdez In The Province of Ilocos Norte”, House Bill No. 6222 “An Act Creating The Municipality of Angela In The Province of Ilocos Norte”, House Bill No. 6223 “An Act Creating The Municipality of Ramos In The Province of Ilocos Norte”, House Bill No. 6785 “An Act Converting the Municipality of San Jose into A Component City to Be Known as The City of San Jose, Province of Occidental Mindoro”, House Bill No. 6955 “An Act Creating The Municipality of Sanga-Sanga In The Province of Tawi-Tawi”, House Bill No. 7546 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Bartolome Aripal in the Second District, Province of Zamboanga del Norte”, House Bill No. 7742 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Sawata In the Province of Davao”, House Bill No. 8095 “An Act Creating The Municipality of Bubuan In the Province of Basilan, And Appropriating Funds Therefor”, House Bill No. 8818 “An Act Creating The Municipality of Narciso Ramos in the Province of Pangasinan”, House Bill No. 10102 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Gumpuan in the Province of Zamboanga del Sur”, 11th Congress: House Bill No. 903 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Gumpuan In the Province of Zamboanga Del Sur”, House Bill No. 2015 “An Act Creating the Municipality Of Del Monte in The Province of Agusan Del Sur”, House Bill No. 5973 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Don Alejandro in The Province of Agusan Del Sur”, House Bill No. 6401 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Sablayan In the Province of Occidental Mindoro Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Sablayan”, House Bill No. 6876 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Balasiao In the Province of Davao Del Sur”, House Bill No. 6877 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Don Pedro Mariscal”, House Bill No. 8843 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Malampaya In the Province of Palawan”, House Bill No. 9554 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Pototan Into A Component City of The Province of Iloilo To Be Known as The City of Pototan”, House Bill No. 10629 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Batobalani In the Province of Camarines Norte”, House Bill No. 10723 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Colasi In the Province of Camarines Norte”, House Bill No. 12829 "An Act Converting the Municipality of Los Banos Into A Component City of The Province of Laguna To Be Known as The Science and Nature City of Los Banos”, 12th Congress: House Bill No. 2463 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Sta. Barbara In the Province of Iloilo Into A Component City to be known as the City of Sta. Barbara”, House Bill No. 2897 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Tapiantana In the Province of Basilan And Appropriating Funds Therefor”, House Bill No. 3184 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Pilas In the Province of Basilan, And Appropriating Funds Therefor”, House Bill No. 4263 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Lopez, Province of Quezon, Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Lopez”, House Bill No. 4721 “ An Act Reapportioning the City of Davao Into Four (4) Legislative Districts and For Other Purposes”, House Bill No. 4964 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Daet Into A Component City of The Province of Camarines Norte To Be Known As ‘City of Daet’”, House Bill No. 5022 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Agustin in the Province of Davao Oriental And For Other Purposes”, House Bill No. 5450 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Don Manuel Medel”, House Bill No. 5531 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Labo, Camarines Norte Province, Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Labo”, House Bill No. 6412 "An Act Segregating Barangay 179, Zone 16 In Caloocan City and For Other Purposes", House Bill No. 6415 "An Act Renaming the Province of Cotabato To the Province of North Cotabato, Repealing Thereby B.P. Blg. 660, And Other Related Purposes", House Bill No. 6468 “An Act Segregating Bagong Silang, Barangay 176, Zone 15 In Caloocan City, And for Other Purposes”, House Bill No. 6666 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Cainta, Province of Rizal Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Cainta”, 13th Congress: House Bill No. 3062 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Malita, Davao Del Sur Province, Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Malita”, House Bill Nos. 3264 and 4000 “An Act Providing for The Reapportionment of Legislative Districts and Sangguniang Panlalawigan Seats in The Province of Negros Oriental”, House Bill No. 3280 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Bohol into Four (4) Legislative Districts”, House Bill No. 3636 “An Act Reapportioning The Province of Misamis Oriental Into Three Legislative Districts And For Other Purposes”, House Bill No. 3869 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Norzagaray Into A City of The Province of Bulacan, To Be Known as The City of Norzagaray”, House Bill No. 3871 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Claveria Into A Component City of The Province of Misamis Oriental, To Be Known as The City of Claveria”, House Bill No. 4226 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Tubod, Province of Lanao Del Norte Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Tubod”, House Bill No. 4324 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Pontevedra In the Province of Negros Occidental into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Pontevedra”, House Bill No. 4558 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Kalibo, Province of Aklan Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Kalibo”, House Bill No. 5027 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Governor Alfredo M. Abueg In The Province of Palawan And For Other Purposes”, House Bill No. 5378 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Monting Plaza in the Province of Agusan del Sur”, House Bill No. 5703 “An Act Creating A Fifth District in The Province of Laguna, Dividing the Province for The Purpose of Five Legislative Districts Providing for The Composition Thereof”, House Bill No. 5943 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Eastern Samar Into Two (2) Legislative Districts”, House Bill No. 6051 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Subic, Province of Zambales, Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Subic”, 14th Congress: House Bill No. 1331 "An Act Converting the Municipality of Nasugbu, Province of Batangas Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Nasugbu”, House Bill No. 1698 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Narvacan, Province of Ilocos Sur, Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Narvacan”, House Bill No. 2846 “An Act Creating The Municipality Of Amulung West In The Province Of Cagayan And Appropriating Funds Therefor”, House Bill No. 3125 "An Act Converting the Municipality of Ipil In the Province of Zamboanga Sibugay Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Ipil”, House Bill No. 3256 "An Act Converting the Municipality of Baler, Province of Aurora into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Baler”, House Bill No. 3701 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Cagayan Into Four (4) Legislative Districts”, House Bill No. 3817 “An Act Creating A New Legislative District in the City of Pasig Amending Republic Act No. 7829, Entitled “An Act Converting the Municipality of Pasig into a Highly Urbanized City to be known as the City of Pasig”, House Bill No. 4140 “An Act Providing For The Reapportionment of Legislative Districts in the Province of Pangasinan”, House Bill No. 4897 "An Act Converting the Municipality of Catarman In the Province of Northern Samar Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Catarman", House Bill No. 6259 “An Act Providing for The Reapportionment of The First (1st) and Second (2nd) Legislative Districts and The Creation of The Third (3rd) Legislative District of The City of Zamboanga”, 15th Congress: House Bill No. 3632 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Zamboanga Del Sur into Three Legislative Districts”, House Bill No. 3767 “An Act Reapportioning The Lone Legislative District in the Province of Nueva Vizcaya and Thereby Creating A New Legislative District From Such Reapportionment”, House Bill Nos. 4144 and 4731 “An Act Reapportioning The First (1st) and Second (2nd) Legislative Districts of Rizal Province, Thereby Creating Two (2) new Legislative Districts From Such Reapportionment And For Other Purposes”, House Bill Nos. 4336 and 4760 “An Act Providing For the Reapportionment of Legislative Districts in the Province of Leyte”, House Bill Nos. 4885 and 5689 “An Act Reapportioning the Composition of The Third (3rd) and Fourth (4th) Legislative Districts in the Province of Bulacan And Thereby Creating New Legislative Districts from Such Reapportionment”, House Bill No. 4570 “An Act Reapportioning the Composition of The First Legislative District in The Province of Oriental Mindoro, Thereby Creating A New Legislative District from Such Reapportionment”, House Bill No. 5520 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Mauban In the Province of Quezon Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Mauban”, House Bill No. 6038 “An Act Reapportioning The Composition of The First (1st) and Second (2nd) Legislative Districts in the Province of South Cotabato and Thereby Creating A New Legislative District from Such Reapportionment”, 16th Congress: House Bill No. 1696 “An Act Creating Another Legislative District in the Province of Surigao del Sur to be known as the Third District of Surigao del Sur”, House Bill Nos. 2734 and 6140 “An Act Separating the City of San Fernando from the Third District of Pampanga, creating for that purpose the Lone District of the City of San Fernando”, House Bill No. 2984 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Valencia In the Province of Negros Oriental Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Valencia”, House Bill No. 4319 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Lorenzo S. Sarmiento In the Province of Compostela Valley and For Other Purposes”, House Bill No. 4472 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Carrascal Into an Independent Component City to Be Known as The City of Carrascal”, House Bill No. 5002 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Pateros Into A City to Be Known as The City of Pateros and making it it’s their Legislative Districts”, House Bill No. 6136 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Polomolok In the Province of South Cotabato Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Polomolok”, House Bill No. 6338 “An Act Separating the City of Malolos from the First Legislative District of the Province of Bulacan to Constitute the Lone Legislative District of The City of Malolos”, Senate Bill No. 3029 “An Act Separating the City of San Pedro from The First Legislative District of The Province of Laguna To Constitute the Lone Legislative District of The City of San Pedro”, 17th Congress: House Bill No. 66 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Daraga, Albay Province, Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Daraga”, House Bill No. 93 “An Act Separating Cotabato City from the First Legislative District of the Province of Maguindanao to Constitute the Lone Legislative District of Cotabato City”, House Bill Nos. 147 and 617 “An Act Reapportioning the Lone Legislative District of the City of Bacolod And Thereby Creating A New Legislative District from Such Reapportionment”, House Bill No. 514 “An Act Creating the Third Legislative District of Surigao del Norte”, House Bill No. 694 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Lubao, Pampanga Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Lubao”, House Bill No. 1013 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Malandag in the Province of Sarangani”, House Bill No. 2051 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Lintangan in the Province of Zamboanga del Norte”, House Bill No. 2098 “An Act Providing for The Reapportionment of The Lone District of The City of Pasay”, House Bill No. 2348 “An Act Separating Angeles City from the First District of the Province of Pampanga to constitute the Lone District of Angeles City”, House Bill No. 5585 “An Act Reapportioning the Lone Legislative District and The Sangguniang Panlungsod Of the City of Iloilo”, House Bill No. 6746 “An Act Reapportioning the Composition of The First Legislative District and Sangguniang Panglungsod Seats of The City of Caloocan”, House Bill No. 6123 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Ubay In the Province of Bohol Into A Component City to Be Known as The Science City of Ubay”, House Bill No. 7418 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Alabel In the Province of Sarangani Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Alabel”, House Bill No. 7865 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Maramag In the Province of Bukidnon Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Maramag”, Republic Acts: Republic Act No. 6712 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Senator Ninoy Aquino In the Province of Sultan Kudarat”, Republic Act No. 6714 “An Act Merging, Dividing, And/or Reviving the Different Barangays in Caloocan City and For Other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 6734 “An Act Providing for An Organic Act for The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao”, Republic Act No. 6769 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Jose in the Province of Surigao del Norte”, Republic Act No. 6851 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Kalawit In the Province of Zamboanga Del Norte”, Republic Act No. 7081 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Talaingkod In the Province of Davao”, Republic Act No. 7152 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Arakan In the Province of Cotabato”, Republic Act No. 7155 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Tulay Na Lupa In the Province of Camarines Norte”, Republic Act No. 7159 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Guipos in the Province of Zamboanga del Sur”, Republic Act No. 7162 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Tigbao in the Province of Zamboanga del Sur”, Republic Act No. 7228 “An Act Creating the Province of Sarangani”, Republic Act No. 7675 “ An Act Converting the Municipality of Mandaluyong into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Mandaluyong”, Republic Act No. 7720 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Santiago into an Independent Component City to be Known as the City of Santiago”, Republic Act No. 7829 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Pasig into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Pasig”, Republic Act No. 7854 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Makati into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Makati”, Republic Act No. 7896 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Sibunag in the Province of Guimaras”, Republic Act No. 7897 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Lorenzo in the Province of Guimaras”, Republic Act No. 7926 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Muntinlupa into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Muntinlupa”, Republic Act No. 8192 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Sagay in the Province of Negros Occidental into a Component City to be Known as the City of Sagay”, Republic Act No. 8223 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Marikina into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Marikina”, Republic Act No. 8251 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Las Pinas into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the Las Pinas”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 54 “An Act creating the Municipality of Mamasapano in the Province of Maguindanao, Appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Republic Act No. 8297 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Kabankalan into a Component City of the Province of Negros Occidental, to be Known as the City of Kabankalan”, Republic Act No. 8469 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Passi in the Province of Iloilo into a Component City to be Known as the City of Passi”, Republic Act No. 8470 “An Act Creating the Province of Compostela Valley from the Province of Davao del Norte, and for Other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 8471 “An Act Constituting the Three Municipalities of Babak, Samal and Kaputian of Samal Island, Province of Davao, into a Component City to be Known as the Island Garden City of Samal”, Republic Act No. 8472 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Tagum, Davao Province, into a Component City to be Known as the City of Tagum”, Republic Act No. 8475 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Calapan in the Province of Oriental Mindoro into a Component City to be Known as the City of Calapan”, Republic Act No. 8480 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Urdaneta in the Province of Pangasinan into a Component City to be Known as the City of Urdaneta”, Republic Act No. 8487 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Taguig, Metro Manila, into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Taguig, and for Other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 8488 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Victorias, Negros Occidental, into a Component City to be Known as the City of Victorias”, Republic Act No. 8489 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Talisay, Negros Occidental, into a Component City to be Known as the City of Talisay”, Republic Act No. 8490 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Malaybalay into a Component City of the Province of Bukidnon, to be Known as the City of Malaybalay”, Republic Act No. 8500 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Kidapawan in the Province of Cotabato into a Component City to be Known as the City of Kidapawan”, Republic Act No. 8507 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Parañaque into a Highly-Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Parañaque”, Republic Act No. 8508 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Antipolo into a Component City to be Known as the City of Antipolo”, Republic Act No. 8509 “An Act Converting the Municipality of San Fernando, La Union, into a Component City to be Known as the City of San Fernando”, Republic Act No. 8526 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Valenzuela into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Valenzuela”, Republic Act No. 8535 “An Act Creating the City of Novaliches”, Republic Act No. 8593 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Tarlac into a Component City to be Known as the City of Tarlac”, Republic Act No. 8754 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Malolos, Bulacan Province into a Component City to be Known as the City of Malolos”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 89 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Sultan Masturain the Province of Maguindanao, Authorizing the Appropriation of Funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Republic Act No. 8755 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Tuguegarao, Cagayan Province into a Component City to be Known as Tuguegarao City”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 95 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Pagagawan in the Province of Maguindanao, and for other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 8796 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Maasin into a Component City of the Province of Southern Leyte to be Known as the City of Maasin”, Republic Act No. 8797 “An Act Converting the Municipality of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan into a Component City to be Known as the City of San Jose Del Monte”, Republic Act No. 8798 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Digos, Davao del Sur Province, into a Component City to be Known as the City of Digos”, Republic Act No. 8803 “ An Act Converting the Municipality of Koronadal, South Cotabato Province, into a Component City to be Known as the City of Koronadal”, Republic Act No. 8804 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Bislig into a Component City to be Known as the City of Bislig”, Republic Act No. 8805 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Tacurong into a Component City of the Province of Sultan Kudarat, to be Known as the City of Tacurong”, Republic Act No. 8806 “An Act Creating the City of Sorsogon by Merging the Municipalities of Bacon and Sorsogon in the Province of Sorsogon and Appropriating Funds Therefor”, Republic Act No. 8807 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Masbate into a Component City of the Province of Masbate to be Known as the City of Masbate”, Republic Act No. 8977 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Muñoz in the Province of Nueva Ecija into a Component City to be Known as the Science City of Muñoz”, Republic Act No. 8979 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Talisay in the Province of Cebu into a Component City to be Known as the City of Talisay,” Republic Act No. 8983 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Bayawan in the Province of Negros Oriental into a Component City to be Known as the City of Bayawan”, Republic Act No. 8984 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Balanga, Bataan Province into a Component City to be Known as the City of Balanga”, Republic Act No. 8985 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Valencia in the Province of Bukidnon into a Component City to be Known as the City of Valencia”, Republic Act No. 8988 “An Act Validating and Recognizing the Creation of the City of Vigan by the Royal Decree of September 7, 1757 Issued by Fernando VI, King of Spain”, Republic Act No. 8990 “An Act Converting the Municipality of San Fernando in the Province of Pampanga into a Component City to be Known as the City of San Fernando”, Republic Act No. 9005 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Tanauan, Province of Batangas into a Component City to be Known as the City of Tanauan”, Republic Act No. 9008 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Ligao, Province of Albay into a Component City to be Known as the City of Ligao”, Republic Act No. 9014 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Escalante, Province of Negros Occidental into a Component City to be Known as the City of Escalante”, Republic Act No. 9015 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Panabo, Province of Davao del Norte into a Component City to be Known as the City of Panabo”, Republic Act No. 9017 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Cauayan, Province of Isabela into a Component City to be Known as the City of Cauayan”, Republic Act No. 9018 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Candon, Province of Ilocos Sur into a Component City to be Known as the City of Candon”, Republic Act No. 9019 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Malabon into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Malabon,” Republic Act No. 9020 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Tabaco, Province of Albay into a Component City to be Known as the City of Tabaco,” Republic Act No. 9022 “ An Act Converting the Municipality of Gapan, Province of Nueva Ecija into a Component City to be Known as the City of Gapan”, Republic Act No. 9023 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Isabela, Province of Basilan into a Component City to be Known as the City of Isabela”, Republic Act No. 9024 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Calamba, Province of Laguna into a Component City to be Known as the City of Calamba”, Republic Act No. 9025 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Alaminos, Province of Pangasinan into a Component City to be Known as the City of Alaminos”, Republic Act No. 9026 “ An Act Converting the Municipality of Tanjay, Province of Negros Oriental into a Component City to be Known as the City of Tanjay”, Republic Act No. 9027 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Sipalay, Province of Negros Occidental into a Component City to be Known as the City of Sipalay”, Republic Act No. 9028 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Himamaylan, Province of Negros Occidental into a Component City to be Known as the City of Himamaylan”, Republic Act No. 9054 “An Act to Strengthen and Expand the Organic Act for The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Amending for The Purpose Republic Act No. 6734, Entitled “An Act Providing for The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao,” As Amended”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 112 “An Act Creating Municipality of Paglat in the Province of Maguindanao, Authorizing the appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 139 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Guindulungan out of the Mother Municipality of Talayan in the Province of Maguindanao, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 150 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Datu Unsay out of the Mother Municipality of Shariff Aguak, Province of Maguindanao, authorizing the appropriation funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 151 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Datu Saudi Ampatuan out of the Mother Municipality of Datu Piang, Province of Maguindanao, authorizing the appropriation funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 153 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Datu Abdullah Sangki in the Province of Maguindanao, providing funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 166 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Rajah Buayan in the Province of Maguindanao, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes”, Republic Act No. 9229 “An Act Amending Sections 8 (a) of Republic Act No. 8507 Entitled, “An Act Converting the Municipality of Parañaque into a Highly Urbanized City to be known as the City of Parañaque””, Republic Act No. 9232 “An Act Amending Sections 2, 11 (a) and 55 of Republic Act No. 8508 entitled “An Act Converting the Municipality of Antipolo into a Component City to be known as the City of Antipolo” and Appropriating Funds Therefor””, Republic Act No. 9264 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Santa Rosa in the Province of Laguna into a Component City to be Known as the City of Santa Rosa”, Republic Act No. 9265 “An Act Creating the Municipality of San Isidro in The Province of Davao del Norte”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 203 “An Act Creating Municipality of Pandag in the Province of Maguindanao, Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 204 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Mangudadatu in the Province of Maguindanao, Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 206 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Datu Anggal Midtimbang in the Province of Maguindanao, Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 9356 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Meycauayan in the Province of Bulacan into a Component City to Be Known as the City of Meycauayan”, Republic Act No. 9357 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Sultan Kudarat into Two Legislative Districts”, Republic Act No. 9364 “An Act Amending Sections 10 and 53 of Republic Act No. 8223, otherwise known as the Charter of the City of Marikina”, Republic Act No. 9371 “An Act Providing for the Apportionment of the Lone Legislative District of the City of Cagayan de Oro”, Republic Act No. 9387 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Navotas Into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of Navotas”, Republic Act No. 9388 “An Act Converting the Municipality of San Juan into a Highly Urbanized City to be Known as the City of San Juan”, Republic Act No. 9389 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Baybay in the Province of Leyte into a Component City to be known as The City of Baybay”, Republic Act No. 9390 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Bogo, Cebu Province into a Component City to be known as The City of Bogo”, Republic Act No. 9391 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Catbalogan in the Province of Samar into a Component City to be known as The City of Catbalogan”, Republic Act No. 9392 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Tandag in the Province of Surigao del Sur into a Component City to be known as The City of Tandag”, Republic Act No. 9393 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Lamitan in the Province of Basilan into a Component City to be known as The City of Lamitan”, Republic Act No. 9394 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Borongan in the Province of Eastern Samar into a Component City to be known as The City of Borongan”, Republic Act No. 9398 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Tayabas in The Province of Quezon into a Component City to be known as The City of Tayabas”, Republic Act No. 9404 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Tabuk into a Component City of The Province of Kalinga to be known as The City of Tabuk”, Republic Act No. 9405 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Bayugan in the Province of Agusan del Sur into a Component City to be known as The City of Bayugan”, Republic Act No. 9407 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Batac in The Province of Ilocos Norte into a Component City to be known as The City of Batac”, Republic Act No. 9408 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Mati in The Province of Davao Oriental into a Component City to be known as The City of Mati”, Republic Act No. 9409 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Guihulngan in The Province of Negros Oriental into a Component City to be known as The City of Guihulngan”, Republic Act No. 9431 “An Act Creating a Barangay to be known as Barangay Fortune in the City of Marikina, Metro Manila”, Republic Act No. 9432 “An Act Creating a Barangay to be known as Barangay Tumana in the City of Marikina, Metro Manila”, Republic Act No. 9434 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Cabadbaran into a Component City of The Province of Agusan Del Norte to be known as The City of Cabadbaran”, Republic Act No. 9435 “An Act Converting The Municipality of El Salvador in the Province of Misamis Oriental into a Component City to be known as The City of El Salvador”, Republic Act No. 9436 “An Act Converting The Municipality of Carcar in the Province of Cebu into a Component City to be known as The City of Carcar”, Republic Act No. 9491 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Naga in the Province of Cebu into a Component City to be known as the City of Naga”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 220 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Datu Hoffer in the Province of Maguindanao, Providing Funds therefor, and for Other Purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 222 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Datu Salibo in the Province of Maguindanao, Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes”, Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 225 “An Act Creating the Municipality of Shariff Saydona Mustapha in the Province of Maguindanao, Providing Funds Therefor, and for Other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 9508 “An Act Providing for the Reapportionment of the Lone Legislative District of the Province of Agusan del Sur”, Republic Act No. 9716 “An Act Reappointing the Composition of the First (1st) and Second (2nd) Legislative Districts in the Province of Camarines Sur and Thereby Creating A New Legislative District From Such Reappointment”, Republic Act No. 9723 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Dasmariñas in the Province of Cavite into a Component City to be Known as the City of Dasmariñas”, Republic Act No. 9724 “An Act Separating the City of Iligan from the First Legislative District of the Province of Lanao Del Norte To Constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Iligan”, Republic Act No. 9725 “An Act Providing for the Reapportionment of the Lone Legislative District of the Province of Camarines Norte,” Republic Act No. 9726 “An Act Separating the City of Lapu-Lapu from the Sixth Legislative District of the Province of Cebu to Constitute the Lone Legislative District of the City of Lapu-Lapu”, Republic Act No. 9727 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Cavite into Seven (7) Legislative Districts”, Republic Act No. 9740 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Biñan in the Province of Laguna into a Component City to Be Known as the City of Biñan,” Republic Act No. 10160 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Bacoor in the Province of Cavite into a Component City to Be Known as the City of Bacoor,” Republic Act No. 10161 “ An Act Converting the Municipality of Imus in the Province of Cavite into a Component City to Be Known as the City of Imus,” Republic Act No. 10163 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Cabuyao in the Province of Laguna into a Component City to Be Known as the City of Cabuyao,” Republic Act No. 10164 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Mabalacat in the Province of Pampanga into a Component City to Be Known As Mabalacat City,” Republic Act No. 10169 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Ilagan in the Province of Isabela into a Component City to be Known as the City of Iligan,” Republic Act No. 10170 “An Act Reapportioning the Second (2nd) Legislative District of Quezon City, Thereby Creating Two (2) Additional Legislative Districts and Twelve (12) Sangguniang Panlungsod Seats From Such Reapportionment,” Republic Act No. 10171 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Palawan into Three (3) Legislative Districts,” Republic Act No. 10177 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Cotabato into Three (3) Legislative Districts,” Republic Act No. 10184 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Bukidnon Into Four (4) Legislative Districts,” Republic Act No. 10360 “ An Act Creating the Province of Davao Occidental,” Republic Act No. 10420 “An Act Converting the Municipality of San Pedro in the Province of Laguna into a Component City to be Known as the City of San Pedro,” Executive Order No. 183 “Creating A Negros Island Region and For Other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 10673 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Batangas into Six (6) Legislative Districts,” Republic Act No. 10675 “An Act Converting the Municipality of General Trias in the Province of Cavite into a Component City to be Known as the City of General Trias,” Republic Act No. 10684 “An Act Creating An Additional Legislative District in the Province of Cebu to be known as the Seventh Legislative District,” Executive Order No. 38 “Revoking Executive Order No. 183 (S. 2015) Which Created a Negros Island Region and For Other Purposes”, Republic Act No. 10933 “An Act Dividing Barangay North Bay Boulevard South (NBBS) in the City of Navotas into Three (3) Distinct and Independent Barangays to be Known as Barangay NBBS Proper, Barangay NBBS Kaunlaran and Barangay NBBS Dagat-Dagatan,” Republic Act No. 10934 “An Act Dividing Barangay Tangos in the City of Navotas into Two (2) Distinct and Independent Barangays to be Known as Barangays Tangos North and Tangos South,” Republic Act No. 10935 “An Act Dividing Barangay Tanza in the City of Navotas into Two (2) Distinct and Independent Barangays to be Known as Barangay Tanza 1 and Barangay Tanza 2,” Republic Act No. 10958,” An Act Dividing Barangay Canumay in the City of Valenzuela into Two (2) Districts and Independent Barangays to be known as Barangay Canumay West and Barangay Canumay East,” Republic Act No. 11077 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Aklan Into Two (2) Legislative Districts,” Republic Act No. 11078 “An Act Separating the City of Calamba From the Second Legislative District of The Province of Laguna To Constitute the Lone Legislative District of The City of Calamba,” Republic Act No. 11080 “An Act Reapportioning the Province of Isabela Into Six (6) Legislative Districts,” Republic Act No. 11086 “An Act Converting the Municipality of Sto. Tomas In the Province of Batangas Into A Component City to Be Known as The City of Sto. Tomas,” Republic Act No. 11198 “An Act Providing for The Reapportionment of The Province of Southern Leyte into Two (2) Legislative Districts”, Republic Act No. 11243 “An act reapportioning the first Legislative District of the Province of South Cotabato thereby creating the Lone Legislative District of General Santos City”.

Postscript: Bills such as creating the municipalities in the provinces, converting the municipality into cities in the previous Congresses was not enacted, now it would be re-filling the measure soon in the 18th Congress, and became laws soon during the mid-term of or before President Rodrigo R. Duterte stepping down in the office on June 30, 2022. The creating the municipalities in the provinces, the provinces from the parent province and converting the municipality into cities are timely if not overdue.

HB _____ still needs the signatures of House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez/Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III/Vicente “Tito” Sotto III and President Rodrigo Duterte before it is enacted into a law.

However, the House of Representatives’ Reference and Research Bureau which conducted the research and legal work on the conversion of municipality into a city and creation of the municipalities and provinces found out that the LGU continues to be officially referred to as in most official documents including the 1987 Philippine Constitution.

• Davao (1972-1998)
• Samar (1969-2021)
• Cotabato (1984-2020)
• Compostela Valley (1998-2022)

The Inter-Agency Committee on provinces, cities, municipalities, barangays and legislative districts that the proposed laws on reapportionment of cities and provinces into two (2) districts, creating the barangays, municipalities and provinces and conversion of municipalities into cities.

• House of Representatives of the Philippines and Senate of the Philippines - Committee on Local Government
• Department of Environment and Natural Resources
• Land Management Bureau
• National Mapping & Resource Information Authority
• Commission on Elections
• Philippine Statistics Authority

The reference boundary computation are based on the approved Based map of the proposed City/Municipality of (name), (province) dated (date) by the Regional Technical Director (LMB-DENR, Region __) and the Regional Executive Director (DENR, Region __, ______).

The coordinates of the site are shown in Table PD-3.

Geographic Coordinates of the provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays

Figures PD-1 and PD-2 shows the Proposed provinces, cities, municipalities, barangays and legislative districts in Google Earth and NAMRIA Map.

Figure PD-1: Google Earth Map indicating the Proposed Municipality 

Figure PD-2. Proposed Project on a NAMRIA Map