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Senate Bill No. 2666
Senators Defensor Santiago, Honasan, Ejercito, Biazon, Villar, Legarda, Escudero & Enrile
Publishing Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009
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--- Farmers' access to credit and
increase funding for support
services from 25% to 40% of the
total appropriations of the
Agrarian Reform Fund to
address the issue on
productivity;
--- Industrializing agriculture;
--- Completion of the acquisition of
the remaining un-acquired and
undistributed agricultural lands;
--- Direct and active assistance in
the education and organization
of actual and potential agrarian
reform beneficiaries;
--- Strengthening the Presidential
Agrarian Reform Council;
--- Gender responsive: recognizing
and enforcing the right of rural
women to own and control land;
--- One (1) year from registration
indefeasibility of Certificate of
Land Ownership Awards
(CLOAs) and other titles issued
under the Agrarian Reform
Program;
--- Exclusive jurisdiction of agrarian
related dispute by the DAR; and
--- Creation of a joint congressional
oversight committee to monitor
CARP implementation.
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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.
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--- Provide for an implementation
period of 10 more years
--- Promote use of land as collateral
--- Allocate an additional Php162
billion for CARP implementation.
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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
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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.
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--- 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
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--- 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
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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."
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--- 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.
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--- 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.
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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".
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--- 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.
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--- To highlight poverty reduction
and development.
--- To ensure that CARP be funded
more seriouly and generously
towards completion of
meaningful agrarian reform.
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