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Full Title of Bill
AN ACT EMANCIPATING AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES FROM FINANCIAL BURDEN BY CONDONING UNPAID AMORTIZATIONS AND INTERESTS AND EXEMPTING PAYMENT OF ESTATE TAX ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS AWARDED UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM
Short Title
NEW AGRARIAN EMANCIPATION ACT
Text as Filed (File)
Third Reading Copy link (HRep)
Date filed
November 24, 2022
Date Read
November 28, 2022
Scope
Legislative Status
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Session Sequence No.
41
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Committee Referral (Senate Website)
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Bill Status
Republic Act RA11953 enacted on 2023-07-07
Committee Details
Primary Committee
House Committee Report link
House Counterpart
Date Approved on Third Reading (HRep)
December 12, 2022
Floor Activity
Floor Activity
Date Parliamentary status Senator(s) 3/22/2023 Sponsorship Speech on the Conference Committee Report Villar, Cynthia A.
Legislative History
Entitled: AN ACT EMANCIPATING AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES FROM FINANCIAL BURDEN BY CONDONING UNPAID AMORTIZATIONS AND INTERESTS AND EXEMPTING PAYMENT OF ESTATE TAX ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS AWARDED UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM [ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 19TH CONGRESS ] [ 2022 ] Introduced by Representatives JOEY SARTE SALCEDA, SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO, ANGELO MARCOS BARBA, RALPH G. RECTO, MARIE BERNADETTE G. ESCUDERO; Approved on Third Reading by the House of Representatives on December 12, 2022; 12/14/2022 Sent to the Senate requesting for concurrence; [ 2023 ] 1/23/2023 Read on First Reading and Referred to the Committees on AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND AGRARIAN REFORM; WAYS AND MEANS and FINANCE; 2/7/2023 Returned jointly by the Committees on AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND AGRARIAN REFORM, FINANCE and WAYS AND MEANS per Committee Report No. 24, recommending that it be considered in SBN-1850; 2/8/2023 Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business; 2/8/2023 CONSIDERED IN SBN-1850 UNDER COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 24. 3/6/2023 Senate designated Senators Villar C., Marcos and Hontiveros as conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336; 3/22/2023 House of Representatives designated Representatives Chungalao, Salceda, Barba, Ortega, Estrella, Recto and Espares as conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336 on March 20, 2023; 3/22/2023 Conference Committee Report on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336, submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-1850, in consolidation with HBN-6336, be approved in accordance with the attached copy of the bill as reconciled and approved by the conferees; 3/22/2023 Sponsorship speech of Senator CYNTHIA A. VILLAR on the conference committee report; 3/22/2023 Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate; 3/27/2023 Conference Committee Report Approved by the House of Representatives on March 22, 2023; 5/9/2023 Letter for Senate Secretary Renato N. Bantug, Jr., returning eight (8) enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336, which were signed by Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez and Secretary General Reginald S. Velasco; 6/8/2023 Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336, sent to the Office of the President through PLLO for the signature of the President of the Philippines, His Excellency, President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.; 7/12/2023 Consolidated with SBN-1850, which was approved and signed into law by the President of the Philippines, His Excellency, President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. on July 7, 2023 and became 7/12/2023 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11953. 7/26/2023 (Transmitted to the Legislative Records and Archives Service for safekeeping and preservation on July 26, 2023)
Senate Legislative History
Entitled: AN ACT EMANCIPATING AGRARIAN REFORM BENEFICIARIES FROM FINANCIAL BURDEN BY CONDONING UNPAID AMORTIZATIONS AND INTERESTS AND EXEMPTING PAYMENT OF ESTATE TAX ON AGRICULTURAL LANDS AWARDED UNDER THE COMPREHENSIVE AGRARIAN REFORM PROGRAM [ FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 19TH CONGRESS ] [ 2022 ] Introduced by Representatives JOEY SARTE SALCEDA, SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO, ANGELO MARCOS BARBA, RALPH G. RECTO, MARIE BERNADETTE G. ESCUDERO; Approved on Third Reading by the House of Representatives on December 12, 2022; 12/14/2022 Sent to the Senate requesting for concurrence; [ 2023 ] 1/23/2023 Read on First Reading and Referred to the Committees on AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND AGRARIAN REFORM; WAYS AND MEANS and FINANCE; 2/7/2023 Returned jointly by the Committees on AGRICULTURE, FOOD AND AGRARIAN REFORM, FINANCE and WAYS AND MEANS per Committee Report No. 24, recommending that it be considered in SBN-1850; 2/8/2023 Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business; 2/8/2023 CONSIDERED IN SBN-1850 UNDER COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 24. 3/6/2023 Senate designated Senators Villar C., Marcos and Hontiveros as conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336; 3/22/2023 House of Representatives designated Representatives Chungalao, Salceda, Barba, Ortega, Estrella, Recto and Espares as conferees to the Bicameral Conference Committee on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336 on March 20, 2023; 3/22/2023 Conference Committee Report on the disagreeing provisions of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336, submitted to the Senate, recommending that SBN-1850, in consolidation with HBN-6336, be approved in accordance with the attached copy of the bill as reconciled and approved by the conferees; 3/22/2023 Sponsorship speech of Senator CYNTHIA A. VILLAR on the conference committee report; 3/22/2023 Conference Committee Report Approved by the Senate; 3/27/2023 Conference Committee Report Approved by the House of Representatives on March 22, 2023; 5/9/2023 Letter for Senate Secretary Renato N. Bantug, Jr., returning eight (8) enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336, which were signed by Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez and Secretary General Reginald S. Velasco; 6/8/2023 Enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1850 and HBN-6336, sent to the Office of the President through PLLO for the signature of the President of the Philippines, His Excellency, President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.;
Abstract
ABSTRACT : Aims to condone unpaid amortization amounts, interest payments, surcharges, and penalties of existing loans of agrarian reforms beneficiaries (ARBs) secured under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) thereby repealing Section 26 of RA No. 6657, as amended, Section 6 of EO No. 228, series of 1987, as well as the pertinent provisions of other agrarian laws. Mandates the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to issue, whenever necessary, a Certificate of Land Ownership Award (CLOA), or any other title based on the applicable agrarian reform law; Provides that condonation shall lift all mortgage liens in favor of the National Government, as represented by the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP), attached to the land acquired. States that awarded land subject to this Act shall not be sold, transferred, or conveyed except through hereditary succession, or to the government or to the LBP, or other qualified beneficiaries through the DAR, for a period of ten (10) years from the issuance of the Certificate of Condonation or the CLOA. Exempts the agrarian reform lands of ARBs, as estates, from the payment of estate tax. Mandates the dismissal, motu proprio, by the DAR or the court, of 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 (30)-year amortization plus six percent (6%) annual interest. Disqualifies ARBs who are convicted by final judgment due to acts and omissions constituting violations of agrarian reform laws to avail of the benefits under this Act.
Significance