QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 9230)
RA 9230 is an act amending Section 10(B) and Section 58 of RA 8797 (the law converting San Jose del Monte, Bulacan into a component city). It adjusts the composition/representation in the Sangguniang Panlungsod and provides for when the city’s representative district takes effect, and it provides funds therefor.
RA 9230 amended Section 10(B) and Section 58 of RA 8797.
It is composed of the city vice mayor as presiding officer, ten (10) regular sangguniang members, the president of the city chapter of Liga ng mga Barangay, the president of the panlungsod na pederasyon ng mga Sangguniang Kabataan, and the sectoral representatives (as members).
It provides for three (3) sectoral representatives: one (1) from women, one (1) from agricultural or industrial workers (to be determined by the Sangguniang Panlungsod within 90 days prior to the local elections), and one (1) from other sectors including the urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, or persons with disabilities.
No. It retains ten (10) regular sangguniang members, and then it further specifies district-based election arrangements for six (6) of those regular members by barangays.
Six (6) regular members are elected from each of two districts by barangays, with each district comprising a compact, contiguous, and adjacent territory—District I and District II. (Thus, each district elects 3 regular members among those specified.)
To ensure the legal requirement for the geographical configuration of electoral districts for representation purposes, preventing non-contiguous or improperly shaped district boundaries.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod must determine the sectoral representative from the agricultural or industrial workers within ninety (90) days prior to the holding of the local elections.
RA 9230 states that the elective members must possess the qualifications provided under Section 39 of Republic Act No. 7160 (Local Government Code of 1991).
It commences in the next national election after the effectivity of the Act.
It states that the election of the regular members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod as provided in the Act, and the first election for Representative of the Lone District, shall coincide with the regular elections in 2004.
The incumbent Representative shall continue to represent the City of San Jose del Monte until the expiration of his term of office.
Because Section 58 is amended to make the representative district commence in the next national election after effectivity, it ties the start of the lone district’s participation in national elections to the law’s date of effectivity.
It notes that the act is a consolidation of House Bill No. 4828 and Senate Bill No. 2447, passed by the House and Senate on specified dates before approval.
It provides that sectoral representatives are to be elected in the manner provided by law, and it adds a specific 90-day timeline for the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s determination of the agricultural or industrial workers sector prior to local elections.