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New Emancipation Act (NEA)

19th Congress, First Regular Session

NON-NEGOTIABLE
PROVISIONS COMMENTS/REMARKS AGREEMENTS (Yes/No)

DAR: Rep. Salceda and other reps It's settled that the law
are studying the deletion of tax will award full
provisions. condonation.

EMANCIPATION OF AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES FROM LBP: Full condonation which will
be proposed to be amortized
THEDEBT BURDEN THROUGH THE FREE AWARD OF within 5 years
AGRICULTURAL LANDS UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN
REFORM PROGRAM TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS THEREFOR AND NCIP asks to be included in the
FOR OTHER PURPOSES crafting of IRR and further
discussions.

SECTION 1. Short Title. This shall be known as the "New Emancipation

Act."
SECTION 2. Condonation of the Agrarian Reform Debt. NEDA ANRES: With limited fiscal YES
The existing loan of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries due to unpaid space, how are the remaining
amortization or interest shall be condoned. All unpaid amortizations and lands be foregone?
interests, including penalties or surcharges, if any, due from loans
secured under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) or
from other agrarian reform programs are hereby condoned by the
Government, relieving all ARBs from the payment thereof thereby
amending Section 26 of Republic Act No. 6657, as amended, Section 6
of Executive Order No. 228 of 1987, as well as the pertinent provisions of
other agrarian reform laws.
SECTION 3. Termination of Payment of Compensation by Agrarian LBP proposes to pay beneficaries Body agreed to delete. NO
Reform Beneficiaries (ARBS) Under Voluntary Land Transfer. - in the form of bonds within 10
The financial obligation of the ARBs to pay the value of the awarded land years. -DAR: This can be
to the landowners acquired under the voluntary land transfer scheme is addressed in another legislation
or IRR.
hereby extinguished thereby amending Section 20 of Republic Act No.
6657, as amended. Payment of the remaining balance of the DOF supports the grant for
compensation due the concerned landowners under the voluntary land flexibility. Address equity issues.
transfer scheme, if any, shall be paid by the Government from the BTR include in the IRR drafting.
Agrarian Reform Fund through the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP). Proposes on splitting the bill by
prioritizing the condonation first
then another measure.

DAR clarified that the provision is

negotiable. DOF supportsed the
deletion.
SECTION. 4. Free Land Distribution to Agrarian Reform DAR: condonation and free land YES
Beneficiaries. distribution goes hand and hand.
Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries who are still to receive their awarded lands Asked for the body to support the
under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program or any other provision.
agrarian reform program shall do SO without any obligation to pay any
amortization. All agricultural lands covered under the CARP or any other
agrarian reform program which have not been distributed at the time of
effectivity of this Act, shall be distributed at no cost to the qualified
beneficiaries.
SECTION 5. Broadened Scope of Support Services to Agrarian DAR: we need this to strenthen DAR will refine
Reform their support to the ARBs. the last paragraph
Beneficiaries Under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. In of the section.
addition to the support services available to the ARBs under Section 37 BSP: (include Section 8) suggests
to include financial literacy as
of R.A. No. 6657, as amended, the DAR, together with the Presidential support program for ARBs.
Agrarian Reform Council (PARC), shall ensure that support services and
assistance indispensable to agricultural productivity and resiliency, NEDA ANRES: asks for ways to
enterprise development, and financial literacy of the ARBs, as well as the streamline supports services with
need for sustenance, dwelling, clothing, medical assistance, education, those from DA and LGUs.
transportation, among others, beneficiaries and their families. Any form of -DAR can include it in the bill and
support services rendered by any banking or financial institution for the IRR.
benefit of the beneficiaries and their families shall be deemed a form of
support under the Agrarian Reform Program thereby amending Section DOF asks who will the lead
agency in providing support
37 of Republic Act No. 6657, as amended. services. DAR will supervise
together with CARP implementing
This Section is without prejudice to the support services available to agencies for the suppport
ARBs from other National Government Agencies. services.

DOF suggests to move the

provision to the IRR. DAR says
that they may include a brief
SECTION 6. Preference to Credit Facilities and Support Services for statement for the bill. Agreed
Beneficiaries with Paid Amortizations.
Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries who have completed payment of the
amortization schedule and the payment of interest charges under Section
26 of Republic Act No. 6657, as amended, Section 6 of Executive Order
No. 228 of 1987, and other agrarian reform laws shall be given
preference in the provision of support services and access to credit
facilities.

SECTION 7. Issuance of Agrarian Reform Title. The proper Registry of NCIP: Add the phrase " subject
Deeds shall issue the Emancipation Patent, the Certificate of Land to the issuance of Certificate of
Ownership Award, or any other title based on the applicable agrarian Non-Overlap (CNO)"
reform law within sixty (60) days from the registration of the title in the DAR: subject to consultation to
name of the Republic of the Philippines. DAR secretary.
NEDA ANRES asks ro possibly
include the fasttracking the
distribution of the collective
CLOAs. DAR says that there are
already working on the
program.
SECTION 8. Condition for Availing of the Benefits under this Act. DOF asks DAR how they measure
It is indispensable that an ARB shall continuously exhibit the willingness, ARBs "continuously exhibit the
aptitude, and ability to cultivate and make the awarded land as willingness, aptitude, and ability
productive as possible as provided under Section 22 of R.A. No. 6657, as to cultivate and make the
awarded land as productive". DAR
amended, in order for said beneficiary to avail of all the benefits under has an existing mechanism.
this Act. DAR says there is already a
mechanism set up for this.

SECTION 9. Restitution of the Agrarian Reform Award Forfeited DAR included this as a No
Solely due to Non-Payment of Annual Amortization and Interest. reiteration/assurance provided
Any pending administrative or judicial case involving the forfeiture by the
DAR of the agrarian reform award solely due to the failure of an ARB to
pay the thirty-year amortization plus six percent (6%) annual interest
shall immediately be dismissed motu proprio, by the office or the court.
The execution of a final and executory administrative or judicial case
decision due to the failure of an ARB to pay the thirty-year amortization
plus six percent (6%) annual interest resulting to the disqualification of
the ARB, the cancellation of the agrarian reform title, the extinguishment
of the rights of possession and ownership of the awarded land, as well as
the removal of the person from the awarded land or the dismantling of
any improvements found therein, shall be immediately terminated, the
agrarian reform award immediately restored, and the forfeiture decision
accordingly reversed. Any agrarian reform title cancelled as a result of
the final and executory administrative or judicial case decision shall
immediately be reconstituted. In the event that the agricultural land has
already been awarded to another beneficiary, the DAR shall as far as
equitable award another land to the disqualified ARB.
SECTION 10. Disqualification of Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries due
to Acts and Omissions constituting Violations of Agrarian Reform
Laws.
Any person convicted by final judgment of any of the prohibited acts and
omissions under Section 73 and meted any of the penalties under
Section 74 of Republic Act No. 6657, as amended, is disqualified to avail
of the benefits under this Act. Disqualification also results for any
determination by final judgement that the ARB, in violation of Section 22
of R.A. No. 6657, as amended, failed to continuously exhibit the
willingness, aptitude, and ability to cultivate and make the awarded land
as productive as possible or neglected or abandoned the awarded land
continuously for a period of two (2) calendar years as provided under.

SECTION 11. Right of the Landowner to Just Compensation. Social

justice is not only actualized when the landless farmer or farm worker
becomes the owner of the land they till. It is indispensable that a
landowner whose land has been acquired and distributed to qualified
beneficiaries under the CARP is paid just compensation. Nothing herein
shall diminish the right of landowners to be justly compensated for their
agricultural lands acquired under the said program.

SECTION 12. Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). The DAR, To include all present: NCIP, BTR, Agreed
with the technical assistance of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), NEDA, DA, DTI, DILG
shall, within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act, formulate the
necessary Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR).
SECTION 13. Agency Support. All other government offices and
agencies are directed to render such prompt and necessary assistance,
subject to applicable laws, rules, and regulations, to fully implement the
provisions of this Act.
SECTION 14. Funding. The amount necessary for the implementation of remove "through the LBP" Agreed
this Act shall be charged against the Agrarian Reform Fund. The funding
requirements for the implementation of this Act shall be included in the
annual budget of the DAR through the LBP.
SECTION 15. Separability. In the event that any provision of this Act or
any part hereof is declared invalid, illegal, or unconstitutional, the
provisions not thereby affected shall remain in full force and effect.

SECTION 16. Repeal. All issuances or parts thereof that are inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified
accordingly.
SECTION 17. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after Use, "upon publication to the
Official Gazette" instead Agreed
its publication in two (2) newspapers of national circulation.

DAR did not include it and sees

that it's unnecessary.
*ON REAL ESTATE TAX PROVISIONS by Rep. Salceda's version DOF will coordinate with Rep.
Salceda re provision.

DAR will come up with an

updated draft for further review
of the concerned agencies.