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- SB 325· Filed Jul 9, 2025Basic Life Skills Course Act
The bill would add a new Basic Life Skills course to every high‑school in the Philippines, teaching topics such as money management, cooking, home repair, communication, and safety.
Pending in the committeeSen. Camille A. Villar - SB 2106· Filed May 5, 2026Personal Financial Literacy in Technical-Vocational Education and Training Act
The bill requires every technical‑vocational school and TESDA training center to teach a stand‑alone personal finance course, and students must pass it to graduate.
Pending in the committeeSen. Loren B. Legarda - SB 72· Filed Jul 3, 2025Rationalized Basic Education Act
The bill proposes to drop the two‑year senior high school level, making basic education consist of kindergarten, six years of elementary and four years of junior high. It also directs the Department of Education to redesign the curriculum, adjust teacher training, and shift funding to the new structure.
Pending in the committeeSen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada - SB 51· Filed Jul 2, 2025Three-Year College Education (3ce) Act
The bill would cap bachelor’s degree programs at three years, move all general‑education courses to senior high school, and let CHED shorten programs further when industry needs justify it, while preserving academic freedom.
Pending in the committeeSen. Win T. Gatchalian - SB 1899· Filed Feb 24, 2026Pedagogical Approaches in the Basic Education Curriculum
The bill lets the Department of Education choose any teaching method it thinks works best for basic education, requires the curriculum to be reviewed every five years, and orders the department to issue detailed rules within 90 days.
Passed by both housesSen. Loren B. Legarda - SB 2046· Filed Apr 15, 2026The Financial Education and Literacy Act
The bill proposes to make financial literacy a separate core subject for junior and senior high schools and to weave basic money‑management concepts into elementary classes, with new curricula, teacher training, library resources, and ongoing monitoring, funded through the Department of Education’s budget.
Pending in the committeeSen. Juan Miguel "Migz" F. Zubiri - SB 530· Filed Jul 14, 2025Amending R.A. No. 10533 (Enhanced Basic Education Act)
The bill would let the Department of Education choose any teaching method it thinks works best for schools, instead of being forced to use the current “spiral progression” system, and it requires the curriculum to be reviewed at least every five years.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Loren B. Legarda - SB 1981· Filed Mar 16, 2026Basic Education Voucher Program Act
The bill would create a program that gives government‑funded vouchers to qualifying students so they can attend private basic‑education schools, and also provides subsidies and training for teachers in those schools.
Pending conference committeeSen. Bam Aquino +11 - SB 1426· Filed Sep 29, 2025Philippine Professional Standards and Quality Assurance System Act of 2025
The bill proposes a new system that brings together colleges, vocational schools, and professional regulators so they work together, cut duplicate work, and make it easier for Filipinos to move between study, training, and jobs.
Pending in the committeeSen. Loren B. Legarda - SB 361· Filed Jul 10, 2025Batang Magaling Act
The Batang Magaling Act proposes a national and local council system, regular labor‑market studies, work‑immersion programs, a skills database, and tax incentives to make senior‑high graduates more employable.
Pending in the committeeSen. Win T. Gatchalian - SB 776· Filed Jul 31, 2025Education Roadmap Act
The Education Roadmap Act creates a national plan to upgrade Philippine education by emphasizing digital and 21st‑century skills, language proficiency, holistic development, technology use, teacher training, and stronger links to industry, overseen by a coordinating council.
Pending in the committeeSen. Pia S. Cayetano - SB 646· Filed Jul 15, 2025Uniformed Personnel Educational Assistance and Benefits
The bill creates a scholarship program that gives children of uniformed personnel who die or become permanently disabled while on duty a free education from elementary through college, covering tuition, fees, books, supplies, uniform, food and transport.
Pending in the committeeSen. Mark A. Villar - SB 672· Filed Jul 16, 2025Inclusion of Financial Literacy and Entrepreneurship in K-12 Program
The bill would make financial literacy and entrepreneurship two new required subjects for all junior‑ and senior‑high schools in the Philippines.
Pending in the committeeSen. Christopher Lawrence "Bong" T. Go - SB 1705· Filed Jan 27, 2026Digital Skills and Technology Education Act
The bill would require the Philippines’ education agencies to add digital‑technology subjects—like coding, AI, and cybersecurity—to all levels of schooling, provide the needed equipment and teacher training, and work with ICT companies, with funding taken from the agencies’ current yearly budgets.
Pending in the committeeSen. Mark A. Villar - SB 624· Filed Jul 15, 2025Discontinuing the Use of the Spiral Progression Approach in the Basic Education Curriculum
The bill removes the rule that the basic education curriculum must use a spiral progression method, letting the Department of Education choose other teaching approaches.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Win T. Gatchalian - SB 103· Filed Jul 3, 2025Third Commission on Education (Edcom III) Act
The bill creates a new Third Commission on Education that brings together the heads of DepEd, CHED and TESDA with legislative leaders to coordinate policies, plan reforms, and report annually to Congress.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Alan Peter "Compañero" S. Cayetano - SB 364· Filed Jul 10, 2025Government Assistance to Private Basic Education Act
The bill would expand the government’s tuition‑voucher and other subsidies to cover private kindergarten‑through‑grade‑6 students, use vouchers to de‑congest public schools, target low‑income families and ALS graduates, and set up a council to manage the program.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Win T. Gatchalian - SB 169· Filed Jul 7, 2025Amending R.A. No. 10931 (Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act)
The bill would widen the free‑college subsidy so it also covers private colleges and technical schools, and it adds a voucher program to help poor but qualified students pay tuition at those private schools.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Christopher Lawrence "Bong" T. Go - SB 554· Filed Jul 14, 2025Compulsory Voter Education Act of 2019
The bill would make voter‑education a required part of junior and senior high school lessons across the country, with the Commission on Elections training teachers and schools providing voter‑education textbooks.
Pending in the committeeSen. Joel Villanueva - SB 903· Filed Aug 5, 2025Television Alternative Learning System Act
The bill would create a nationwide TV‑based program that lets students watch live or recorded lessons that follow the regular school curriculum, especially when schools cannot operate in person.
Pending in the committeeSen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada - SB 1894· Filed Feb 23, 2026Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act
The proposed law would expand free college to cover more fees, create special plans to admit more students from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds, and increase the scholarship‑type subsidy (TES) to pay for tuition at private schools and for extra costs such as books, transport, housing, disability needs, clinical‑internship fees, and first‑time professional‑license fees. It also requires schools to publish equity plans, sets up a monitoring system and annual reporting, and gives the UniFAST Board authority to set,
Enrolled copy sent to malacanangSen. Pia S. Cayetano - SB 1042· Filed Aug 6, 2025Expanding the Coverage of the Tertiary Education Subsidy
The bill would broaden the existing Tertiary Education Subsidy so that more poor but academically qualified students can receive help even if they choose to study at private colleges or technical‑vocational schools.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada - SB 1073· Filed Aug 6, 2025Private Basic Education Vouchers Assistance Act
The bill creates a government‑funded voucher system that lets qualifying students move from crowded public schools to private schools, sets up a new Bureau of Private Education to oversee the program, and provides extra support for teachers and school quality.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada - SB 1996· Filed Mar 19, 2026Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipno
The bill would add adult‑education, entrepreneurship and job‑training components to the 4Ps program, require at least one adult in each beneficiary household to finish one of these tracks, and set a minimum cash grant to help pay for meals and transport while they study.
Pending in the committeeSen. Manuel "Lito" M. Lapid - SB 1297· Filed Aug 27, 2025Abolishing Senior High School Education Act
The bill would cut the two‑year senior high school level from the Philippines’ basic education system, creating a shorter K‑1‑6‑4 structure and shifting funding, curriculum design, and teacher training to the Department of Education and its partners.
Pending in the committeeSen. Robinhood Padilla - SB 2089· Filed May 4, 2026Enhancing Decentralized Governance and Service Delivery in Basic Education
The bill proposes to let the education secretary, together with the budget office, create new school‑division offices or reorganize existing ones based on learner numbers, school counts, geography and workload, so that each province or city has at least one division and staffing matches local needs.
Pending in the committeeSen. Bam Aquino - SB 1223· Filed Aug 20, 2025Batang Magaling Act
The Batang Magaling Act proposes to make sure that senior‑high‑school graduates have the skills that employers need, by creating national and local councils to match school programs with industry, requiring work‑immersion programs, and giving tax incentives to companies that hire these graduates.
Pending in the committeeSen. Raffy T. Tulfo - SB 67· Filed Jul 3, 2025The Free Tertiary Agricultural Education Act
The bill would give free college education and related allowances to children of farmers, farm workers, fisherfolk, and poor Filipino students who study agriculture, and would require them to work in the local agriculture sector for at least one year after graduating.
Pending in the committeeSen. Rodante D. Marcoleta - SB 26· Filed Jul 2, 2025Strengthening the Tertiary Education Subsidy
The bill revises the existing tertiary‑education subsidy law to (1) guarantee that a student’s approved subsidy amount will not be cut during the whole degree or technical‑vocational program, as long as eligibility is kept; (2) set priority rules based on the Listahanan 2.0 poverty list; (3) require the UniFAST Board, together with the DBM, to review and possibly raise the subsidy every three years to keep up with inflation.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Pia S. Cayetano - SB 1295· Filed Aug 27, 2025Tripartite Council (Creation)
The proposal would set up a council made up of government, school, and business leaders to study why many graduates can’t find jobs that match their training, and to recommend changes to curricula and training programs.
Pending in the committeeSen. Mark A. Villar - SB 1604· Filed Dec 15, 2025Expanding the Coverage of the Tertiary Education Subsidy
The bill proposes to broaden the existing Tertiary Education Subsidy by defining more precise eligibility rules, adding new benefit items such as internship fees and disability allowances, and ensuring funding through CHED and TESDA budgets.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Joel Villanueva - SB 555· Filed Jul 14, 2025Labor Education in Senior High School Act
The bill requires every senior high school—public or private—to add labor‑education topics to a core subject, to review the curriculum for labor‑education content, to hold a labor‑empowerment and career‑guidance conference for all graduating students, and directs the Department of Education to issue detailed rules within 60 days after the law takes effect.
Pending in the committeeSen. Joel Villanueva - SB 2107· Filed May 5, 2026Agriculture Education Act
The proposed Agriculture Education Act would create a nationwide system of public and private schools, colleges and technical institutes that teach farming, fisheries, forestry and veterinary science. A new council (the AEDC) would set standards, coordinate programs and monitor results, while a dedicated fund would support curriculum upgrades, faculty training and farmer‑entrepreneur loans.
Pending in the committeeSen. Loren B. Legarda - SB 1704· Filed Jan 27, 2026Special Program in Creative Arts for Junior and Senior High School
The bill proposes to expand the existing arts program for junior and senior high schools, create a governing council, allow schools to partner with private firms, hire non‑teacher arts experts, and give tax breaks on imported arts equipment, with funding to come from the yearly national budget.
Pending in the committeeSen. Mark A. Villar - SB 908· Filed Aug 5, 2025Science Laboratory for Basic Education Act
The bill would require every public elementary and high school in the Philippines to have a fully equipped science laboratory, fund the construction and equipment through specific tax revenues, and create lab‑technician jobs to run and maintain the facilities.
Pending in the committeeSen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada - SB 98· Filed Jul 3, 2025Road Safety and Comprehensive Driver's Education Act
The bill would add road‑safety lessons for elementary students and driver‑education courses for high‑school and college students into the Philippines’ K‑12 school system.
Pending in the committeeSen. Mark A. Villar - SB 454· Filed Jul 10, 2025Road Safety Education in Schools Act
The bill would add road‑safety lessons for elementary pupils and a full drivers‑education program for junior‑ and senior‑high students, with the curriculum, teaching materials and funding to be prepared by the education, transport and safety agencies.
Pending in the committeeSen. Rodante D. Marcoleta - SB 1697· Filed Jan 27, 2026Inclusion of Entrepreneurship in the Junior and Senior High School Curricula of the K-12 Program
The bill proposes adding a dedicated entrepreneurship class for all junior‑ and senior‑high school students in both public and private schools across the Philippines.
Pending in the committeeSen. Mark A. Villar - SB 128· Filed Jul 3, 2025Private Education Voucher Expansion (Peve) Act
The PEVE Act would give vouchers to families so they can send their children to private schools, set up a new bureau to run the program, and add funds for teacher training and school improvements.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Bam Aquino - SB 1895· Filed Feb 23, 2026Private Basic Education Vouchers Act
The bill would create a government‑funded voucher system that helps families pay for private elementary and secondary schools, especially those whose public schools are overcrowded. It also sets up a new bureau, training funds for teachers, and rules to monitor school performance.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Raffy T. Tulfo - SB 1755· Filed Feb 5, 2026Batang Magaling Act
The Batang Magaling Act proposes a system of national and local councils, regular labor‑market studies, and work‑immersion programs so that senior‑high‑school graduates acquire the skills that employers need.
Pending in the committeeSen. Camille A. Villar - SB 1754· Filed Feb 5, 2026Digital Skills and Technology Education Act
The bill requires the Philippines’ education agencies to add digital‑technology subjects—like coding, AI, cybersecurity and digital marketing—to all school levels, provide the needed equipment and teacher training, and work with tech companies to give students real‑world experience. Funding will come from the agencies’ current yearly budgets, and the agencies must issue detailed rules within 90 days after the law takes effect.
Pending in the committeeSen. Camille A. Villar - SB 422· Filed Jul 10, 2025The Learner’s Choice (Tlc) in Private Basic Education Act of 2025
The bill creates a national voucher program that gives low‑income students a portable cash grant to attend private basic‑education schools of their choice, with the goal of easing overcrowded public schools and improving learning outcomes.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Alan Peter "Compañero" S. Cayetano - SB 167· Filed Jul 7, 2025Complementarity in Education Act
The bill proposes to link public and private schools so students can choose any quality school, use vouchers or loans that follow them, share facilities, and get better information about schools—all aimed at easing crowded public classrooms and improving education quality.
Pending in the committeeSen. Loren B. Legarda - SB 1621· Filed Dec 16, 2025Expanding the Purpose and Application of the Special Education Fund (R.a. No. 7160)
The bill would let the 1% property tax fund for schools be used for more things—like building classrooms, buying equipment, paying teachers, and running non‑formal programs—while requiring yearly public reports on how the money is spent.
Pending in the committeeSen. Jv Ejercito - SB 1659· Filed Jan 12, 2026Sabah Mandatory Education Act
The bill would make every basic‑level public and private school teach about the Philippines’ claim to Sabah, adding the topic to subjects like History and Social Studies, and would require the Department of Education to create teaching materials and train teachers.
Pending in the committeeSen. Robinhood Padilla - SB 309· Filed Jul 9, 2025Government Assistance to Private Basic Education Act
The bill would give Filipino children vouchers to help pay for private K‑12 schools, set up an online system for choosing schools, create a new bureau to oversee private schools, and provide extra funds for teachers and school facilities.
Consolidated/substituted in the committee reportSen. Loren B. Legarda - SB 125· Filed Jul 3, 2025School-To-Employment Program (Step) Act
The School‑to‑Employment Program (STEP) Act proposes to set up job‑placement offices in all public senior high schools, state and local universities, create national and local industry‑academe councils, and launch a national labor‑market data system to better match graduates with jobs.
Pending in the committeeSen. Bam Aquino
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