PBMLP lobbying for passage of bills granting CSC eligibility, career executive eligibility to SB, SP members with 3 terms

TACLOBAN CITY – The Provincial Board Members League of the Philippines is lobbying in Congress for the passage of the bills submitted at the Lower House that would provide grant civil service eligibility or career executive service eligibility to members of local legislative body who are able to finished three consecutives terms of office said Leyte 5th district Board Member Carlo Loreto in an interview.

The two bills are House Bill 3678 or the Act conferring upon member of the Sangguniang Bayan, Sangguniang Panlungsod and Sangguniang Panlalawigan who has served for at least three and/or two consecutive terms in office appropriate civil service eligibility and House Bill 3116 or an act conferring the appropriate civil service eligibility upon a member of the Sangguniang Bayan, Sangguniang Panlungsod and Sangguniang Panlalawigan who has served for at least three consecutive terms in office.

HB 3678 is the principal authorship of AANGAT TAYO sectoral Representative Daryl Grace Abayon who is also the vice-chairperson of civil service and professional regulation while HB 3116 is the principally authored by Congressman Isidro Rodriguez, Jr. who chairs the committee on Southern Tagalog Development, a special committee at the House of Representatives.

Loreto attended the committee hearing of the Committee on Civil Service and Professional Regulation Chaired by Leyte third district Representative Andres Salvacion Jr, where they submitted their groups’ position to the said bills.

“The consensus of our members in the national level is that we agreed that public officials who completed their terms should be provided with eligibility according to their degree in their educational attainment,” said Loreto.

In their position letter for those who serves the local legislative body for three consecutive terms who were unable to graduate in college, they proposed that the town, city councilor and provincial board member should be provided with the non-professional eligibility.

Degree holders are to be provided with professional civil service eligibility, while those who are professionals like doctors and lawyers are to be provided with Career Executive Service Officer (CESO) eligibility.

“This is in a way to motivate them to provide better services to their constituents as it is mandated to them when they took their oath,” Loreto explained. (ROEL AMAZONA)