SUMMARY OF ANTI-CORPORAL PUNISHMENT BILLS HB 4455 SB 873 (Yap, et.

Al) (Estrada) Adult Same - Parents Yayas or househelpers - Caregivers - Foster parents - Guardians - Relatives - Other persons legally responsible (special or substitute parental authority) - School teachers - Personnel - Officers of public or private academic and vocational institutions Employers and supervisors - Service providers - Priests, nuns, pastors - Other members of religious congregations or churches - Any other person whose care the child has been entrusted to Another child who has
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Accused

SB 1107 (Villar) Parent Ascendant Teacher Guardian

SB 1597 (Defensor-Santiago) School Administrator Teacher Individual, entity, or institution engaged in child care Employers, supervisors and managers of working children

SB 3073 (Defensor-Santiago) School School personnel BUT does not apply to private schools or home schools

been given or has assumed authority or responsibility for punishment or discipline Acts constituting Cruel and unusual Same corporal punishment punishment Act that subjects the child to indignities and other excessive chastisement that embarrasses or humiliates the child carried out to discipline, train or control Physical and humiliating or degrading punishment such as: - Blows - Striking Pulling of hair, shaking, twisting joints, cutting/piercing of skins, dragging or throwing a child - Forcing a child to perform physically painful or damaging acts - Deliberate neglect of childs physical needs - Use of or exposure to substances that can

Those provided under RA 7610

by ANY PUNISHMENT IN WHICH PHYSICAL FORCE IS USED AND INTENDED TO CAUSE SOME DEGREE OF PAIN OR DISCOMFORT, HOWEVER LIGHT. ANY PUNISHMENT IN WHICH PHYSICAL FORCE IS USED AND INTENDED TO CAUSE SOME DEGREE OF PAIN OR DISCOMFORT, HOWEVER LIGHT.

paddling, spanking, or other forms of physical punishment, however light, imposed upon a student.

Penalties

cause discomfort or threaten the childs health - Tying up - Imprisoning - Verbal abuse - Making a child look or feel foolish Based on existing penal laws at the maximum period UNLESS higher penalty is provided under: - RPC - RA 7610 - RA 9262 Arresto mayor (max period)

If the offender is the parent or a person exercising parental authority, the court may suspend parental authority in accordance with Executive Order No. 209, as amended, otherwise known as the "Family Code of the Philippines".

Depends on the consequence: prision mayor in the maximum to reclusion temporal in the minimum: insane, imbecile or blind. prision mayor in the medium to prision mayor in the maximum: lost an eye, a hand a foot, an arm, or a leg or shall have lost the use of Remedies available any such member or under RA 7610 and shall become RA 9262 incapacitated to engage in the usual physical activities of a child prision correcional in the prision mayor in the minimum: deformed, or shall have lost any

No funds will be made available to any school or institution that has a policy or practice which allows school personnel to inflict corporal punishment upon a student

part of his body, or shall have lost the use thereof, or shall have been ill or incapacitated to engage in the usual physical activities of a child for a period of more than ninety days; pnslon correcional in the pnslon mayor in the maximum: ill or incapacitated to engage in the usual physical activities of a child for a period of more than thirty days prision correcional in the minimum to prision correcional in the medium: ill or incapacitated to engage in the usual physical activities of a child from ten to thirty days arresto mayor in the maximum to prision correcional
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in the minimum: ill or incapacitated to engage in the usual physical activities of a child for a period of one to nine days arresto mayor in the medium to maximum period: physical injuries not requiring medical attendance. arresto mayor in the minimum to medium period: does not cause any physical or mental injury. Who can complaint file a Offended party Same assisted by an adult Parents or guardians Ascendant or collateral relative within the 3rd degree of consanguinity or affinity Official, social worker, or rep of a licensed child-caring institution Officer or social worker of the DSWD or local SWDO Police officers (women and childrens desk) Barangay official
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Appropriations

Teacher, NGO worker, health provider 2 concerned persons Initial implementation P150,000,000 charged against current budget of: - DSWD - DepEd - TESDA - CHED For LGU: - IRA internally-generated funds - PDAF Promotion of Techniques on Positive and Non-Violent Discipline (Sec 4) Option for intervention (Sec 7) Suspension of parental authority (Sec 8) Interventions for Other Parent Who Is An (Sec 5) Offender (Sec 9) Other Remedies (Sec 10) Reporting (Sec 11) Persons Intervening Exempt From Liability

appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act for fiscal year 2012 and each of the four succeeding fiscal years.

Other provisions

Grant authority (Sec 5) National assessment (sec 6)

Remedies

(Sec 12) Venue (Sec 14) Confidentiality (Sec 15) Duties and Responsibilites of Government Agencies (Sec 16) IRR (Sec 17)