Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)

Senate Bill / Title	Salient Features	Rational / Remarks
Senate Bill No. 1911 Senator Miriam Defensor An act strengthening the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) amending Republic Act No. 6657, also known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988, Sec. 37 and 63.	--- Provide for an implementation period of 10 more years --- Promote use of land as collateral --- Allocate an additional Php162 billion for CARP implementation.	Iterates that CARP has to go on due to the following reasons: --- need to sustain the gains in CARP implementation --- farmer-beneficiaries still require guidance and assistance to make them competitive --- CARP has yet to realize its avowed goals of attaining not only the equitable ownership of lands, but also the improvement of the quality of life of the beneficiaries --- CARP has a constitutional mandate
Senate Bill No. 1990 Senator Gregorio B. Honasan An act strengthening the Comprehensivew Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), amending for the purpose Sec. 7 and 37 and further amending Sec. 63, and repealing secs. 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 34 of Republic Act No. 6657, otherwise knwon as " The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988", as amended, and appropriating funds thereof.	--- Provide for a 3-year extension period --- Strengthen PBD by - Ensuring delivery of support services to the ARBs, through the PARC, in all stages of CARP implementation - Increasing the flow of production credit by allowing FAC and providing no alternative mode of compliance, at least 1% of the agri-agra credit. --- Repeal legal provisions on corporate farms (SDO, etc.) and apply compulsory acquisition on these areas. --- Expand / recover fund source not only from PCGG but also PMO proceeds of sales of privatized assests, all AR collections in whatever form and nature, by DAR and other CIAs, and debt swaps. --- Allocate additional Php48.6 billion	--- Admitted that CARP has constitutional mandate and that it is a continuing program --- The 3-year extension period is intended only to create a sense of urgency to finish LAD in order to remove uncertainties and clarifies investment risks --- Acknowledged that LAD, PBD and AJD have yet to be completed
Senate Bill No. 2047 Senator Jinggoy E. Estrada An act accelerating thecompletion of the land acquisition and distribution component of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), by providing automatic approriation thereof, and addressing major implementation problems of the program, amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 6657, as amended, otherwise known as "The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988" and Executive Order 129, as amended."	--- Acceleration of land acquisition and distribution within a seven- year completion target and with sufficient funding - 3.8% of the GAA. --- Strengthen credit and support services (including collateral-free loans and capability-building projects) to farmer-beneficiaries. --- Resolution of implementation problems, such as issues on retention limit, standing crops, coverage, FB installation, land use conversion, transferability of lands and land amortization payment. --- Categorical declaration that CLOA and other titles issued under any agrarian reform program shall be indefeasible one year from registration to avoid the delaying tactics of landowners. --- Direct and physical distribution of all agricultural lands, as opposed to non-distributive schemes that do not help the farmer-beneficiaries economic and social conditions. --- Equating "installation" to actual, peaceful and continuous possession of awarded land, with government ensuring secutrity and success. --- Establishment of an implementation structure for the programs completion, including DAR's reorganization, strengthening of its Adjudication Board, and creation of inter- agency committees on support services and oversight. --- Recognition of women as program beneficiries, mandating gender- responsive support services. --- Recognition of the rights of all other qualified FBs, and their legal standing in cases involving their land.	--- To accelerate the implementation of the Land Acquisition and Distribution (LAD) component of the CARP and develop the base for industrialization and modernization. --- To address the loopholes of the CARL. --- To strengthen the delivery of support services.
Senate Bill No. 2122 Senator Rodolfo Biazon "An act strengthening the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by amending certain sections of Republic Act No. 6657, as amended, otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988, providing funds therefor, and for other purposes".	--- The extension for ten years with land acquisition and distribution to be completed in seven years. --- Abolish stock distribution option and stipulate that land previously covered by this mode should now be covered by compulsory acquisition. --- Discourage but does not disallow voluntary land transfer and leaseback schemes. --- Simplfy land valuation to include the value of the standing crop in order to facilitate beneficiary installation or takeover. --- Make Emancipation Patents and Certificate of Land Ownership Awardee indefeasible and imprescriptable one year after registration. --- Clarify the start of payment of land amortization by the beneficiaries and reiterate the ceilings of 5% for the first five years and 10% for the next 25 years. --- Clarify when, how and to whom beneficiaries may transfer awarded land. --- 50-50 LTI and PDB budget allocation. --- More incentives to the landowners who invest 50% or more of their compensation in enterprises where the land is located. --- Expand membership in the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council. --- Expand the DAR Adjudication Board's composition, clarify the legal standing of farmers and farm groups, limit the judiciary's role in settling agrarian and agrarian-related disputes, and allow DAR lawyers to render free legal representation for beneficiaries facing AR-related criminal cases. --- Further restrict land conversion. --- Expand the prohibition from issuance of preliminary injunctions in regard to CARP implementation to include the PARC and DAR. --- Provide for augmentation of the Agrarian Reform Fund by Php100 to 162 billion for the next ten years.	--- To highlight poverty reduction and development. --- To ensure that CARP be funded more seriouly and generously towards completion of meaningful agrarian reform.