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PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1777
PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1777 - AN
ACT FURTHER AMENDING CERTAIN SectionS OF P.D. NO. 1177, AS AMENDED,
ENTITLED "REVISING THE BUDGET PROCESS IN ORDER TO INSTITUTIONALIZE THE
BUDGETARY INNOVATIONS OF THE NEW SOCIETY"
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WHEREAS,
the Presidential Decree No. 1177, as amended, was promulgated to
improve national budget policy and practice, to institutionalize
budgetary reforms and innovations realized during the New Society and
to put into effect the changes in budget principles embodied in the
Constitution of 1973; chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
WHEREAS, there is need to further clarify certain provisions of the
decree in order to further improve the budget process and procedures in
the light of experience in the application of P.D. No. 1177.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines,
by virtue of the powers vested in me by the Constitution, do hereby
Order and Decree:cralaw:red
Section 1. Parts of Section 2 of P.D. No. 1177, as
amended by Section 1 of P.D. No. 1421, are hereby further amended to
read as follows:cralaw:red
a) "Budget" refers to the budget required to be
prepared pursuant to Section Sixteen (1), Article VIII of the
Constitution, which contains the financial program of the National
Government for a designated calendar year, consisting of statements of
estimated receipts from revenues and expenditures for the calendar year
for which it is intended to be effective. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
b) "Government" means the National Government,
including the Executive, the Legislative and the Judicial Branches, the
Constitutional Commission, regional commissions, and state universities
and colleges. It includes among its instrumentalities, local government
units and government-owned or controlled corporations.
g) "Government-owned or controlled corporations" are
corporations created by laws as agencies of the state for narrow and
limited purposes, either owned wholly by the state or wherein the
Government is a majority stockholder, in cases of stock corporations,
or otherwise, agencies so created where no stocks are issued but whose
affairs are conducted by a duly constituted board and which perform
proprietary functions. This term shall include all corporations,
including financial institutions, owned or controlled by the National
Government performing government and/or proprietary functions, but
excluding state universities and colleges.
h) "Local Government Units" refer to the political
subdivisions mentioned or authorized to be created under Article XI of
the Constitution.
j) "Appropriation" is an authorization under Acts of
Congress, Presidential Decrees, or other legislative enactment,
allowing obligations to be incurred and payments to be made with funds
of the government under specified conditions and/or for specified
purposes.
Section 2. Section 5 of P.D. No. 1177 is hereby
amended by adding a new paragraph to read as follows: chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
"The budget calendar, format and procedure for the preparation and
approval of the operating budgets of local government units and
government-owned or controlled corporations shall be governed by such
rules and regulations as may be issued by the President in order to
implement the declared policy on national resource budget enunciated in
this section."
Section 3. The first paragraph of Section 13 of P.D.
No. 1177 is hereby amended to read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 13. Submission of the Budget. — The President
shall, in accordance with section sixteen (1), Article VIII of the
Constitution, submit within thirty days from the opening of each
regular session of the National Assembly, a national government budget
of estimated receipts based on existing and proposed revenue measures,
and of estimated expenditures. The budget estimates shall be used as a
basis for the consideration of the General Appropriations Bill and of
other appropriations measures whose revenue and expenditure estimates
are incorporated therein. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 4. A new paragraph shall be inserted between
the second and third paragraphs of Sec. 13 as follows:cralaw:red
"The President shall submit the General Appropriations Bill with the
budget as herein specified, embodying proposed appropriations for the
current operations of the national government and for capital outlays.
Additional appropriations proposals may be submitted which correspond
to part of the expenditure estimates submitted as part of the budget
proposal: Provided, That continuing appropriations may be enacted for
public works, highways and other infrastructure projects which require
more than one year for construction. In such cases revenue estimates
for the future years shall also be used in the evaluation of funding
availability."
Section 5. The existing paragraph in Sec. 27 shall be
placed under a sub-heading "a. General Appropriations Bill." The
following sub-sections shall be added:cralaw:red
"b. Revenue Measures.
"The Committee on Finance shall report to the Batasan the revenue bills
forming part of the budget estimates, within ten consecutive session
days after they have been referred to it. The provisions of sub-section
"a" above with respect to timetable of consideration shall apply, as
much as practicable, to the schedule of discussion and final action on
revenue bills.
"c. Infrastructure and Other Bills.
"The public works, highways and other bills requiring appropriations
may be filed at any time during the sessions of the National Assembly
and shall be considered by the Assembly upon their being reported out
by the corresponding Committees."
Section 6. Section 32 shall read as follows:cralaw:red
"Sec. 32. Supplemental Appropriations. — After the
President shall have submitted and the Assembly acted upon the General
Appropriations Bill, supplemental appropriations measures shall be
considered only if supported by actually available funds as certified
to by the National Treasurer or by new revenue measures. The budget and
the General Appropriations Act may provide lump sums in order to
support bills for later action by the Assembly: Provided: That the
Treasury certification requirement shall be deemed complied with in the
case of bills which are funded from lump sums in the General
Appropriations Act approved by the Assembly for purposes of supporting
programs, projects or activities which require specific legislative
authorization and in the case of bills whose expenditure estimates are
included in the budget submission of the President pursuant to Sec. 13
hereof. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Section 7. Change in Nomenclature. — All references
in P.D. 1177, as amended to the terms "Commissioner of the Budget,"
"Budget Commission," "Secretary" and "Department" shall be changed to
"Minister of the Budget," "Ministry of the Budget," "Minister," and
"Ministry", respectively.
Section 8. Effectivity. — This Decree shall take
effect immediately.
Done in the City of Manila,
this 14th day of January, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
eighty-one.
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