Resolution of Both Houses No. 1 (6th Congress of the Philippines)

by 6th Congress of the Philippines

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Sixth Congress of the Republic of the Philippines R. H. B. No. 4 Second Session

[Resolution of Both Houses No. 1]^[1]

RESOLUTION OF BOTH HOUSES PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PHILIPPINES.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in joint session assembled, by a vote of not less than three-fourths of all the Members of each House voting separately: To propose, as they hereby propose:

Section 1. Section five, Article VI of the Constitution of the Philippines is amended to read as follows:

"Sec. 5. The House of Representatives shall be composed of not more than one hundred and eighty Members who shall be apportioned among the several provinces as nearly as may be according to the number of their respective inhabitants, but each province shall have at least one Member. The Congress shall by law make an apportionment at any time after the return of every enumeration. Until an apportionment shall have been made, the following provinces shall have the following Members in the House of Representatives: Rizal, including the Cities of Quezon, Caloocan and Pasay, eight Members; Cebu, including the cities of Toledo, Danao, Lapu-lapu, and Cebu, eight Members; Negros Occidental, including the cities of Bacolod, Bago, La Carlota, San Carlos, and Silay, eight Members; Pangasinan, including the cities of Dagupan, and San Carlos in Pangasinan, six Members; Iloilo including the City of Iloilo, six Members; Leyte, including the cities of Tacloban, and Ormoc, five Members; Davao, including the City of Davao, five Members; Camarines Sur, including the City of Naga, five Members; Zamboanga del Sur, including the cities of Basilan, and Zamboanga, four Members; Cotabato, including the city of Cotabato, four Members; Batangas, including the city of Lipa, four Members; Quezon, including the city of Lucena, four Members; Pampanga, including the city of Angeles, four Members; Nueva Ecija, including the cities of Cabanatuan, and Palayan, three Members; Negros Oriental, including the cities of Canlaon, and Dumaguete, three Members; Bohol, including the city of Tagbilaran, three Members, Bulacan, three Members; Albay, including the city of Legazpi, three Members; Laguna, including the city of San Pablo, three Members; Cagayan, three Members; Isabela, three Members; Tarlac, two Members; Lanao del Sur, including the City of Marawi, two Members; Cavite, including the cities of Cavite, Trece Martires, and Tagaytay, two Members; Western Samar, including the city of Calbayog, two Members; Sorsogon, two Members; Misamis Oriental, including the cities of Cagayan de Oro, and Gingoog, two Members; Ilocos Sur, two Members; Masbate, two Members; Sulu, two Members; Capiz, including the city of Roxas, two Members; Southern Cotabato, two Members; La Union, two Members; Ilocos Norte, including the city of Laoag, two Members; Zamboanga del Norte, including the city of Dapitan, two Members; Lanao del Norte, including the city of Iligan, two Members; Agusan, including the city of Butuan, two Members; Northern Samar, two Members; Misamis Occidental, including the city of Ozamis, one Member; Antique, one Member; Eastern Samar, one Member; Oriental Mindoro, one Member; Aklan, one Member; Zambales, one Member; Southern Leyte, one Member; Surigao del Norte, one Member; Bukidnon, one Member; Camarines Norte, one Member; Benguet, including the city of Baguio, one Member; Surigao del Sur, one Member; Palawan, one Member; Catanduanes, one Member; Bataan, one Member; Nueva Vizcaya, one Member; Romblon, one Member; Abra, one Member; Marinduque, one Member; Mountain Province, one Member; Kalinga-Apayao, one Member; Occidental Mindoro, one Member; Ifugao, one Member; Camiguin, one Member; and Batanes, one Member; and the city of Manila, six Members, who shall be elected by the qualified electors from the present representative districts, and, until otherwise provided by law, the additional members shall be elected from the province at large. Each representative district shall comprise, as far as practicable, contiguous and compact territory."

Sec. 2. This amendment shall be valid as part of the Constitution when approved by a majority of the votes cast in an election at which it is submitted to the people for their ratification pursuant to Article XV of the Constitution.

Adopted, March 16, 1967.

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1. To be published in three (3) consecutive issues of the Official Gazette as required by Section 2 of Republic Act No. 4913 submitting to the Filipino people, for approval or disapproval, the proposed amendment to the Constitution. (First publication.)