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RA9442 MAGNA
CARTA FOR
DISABLED PERSONS
PRESENTED BY:
BRIXYLLE ANNE A. STO. DOMINGO
AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7277,
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “MAGNA CARTA FOR
DISABLED PERSONS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
SECTION 1. a new chapter, to be denominated as

“Chapter 8. Other privileges and Incentives” is
hereby added to Title Two of Republic Act No. 7277,
otherwise known as the “Magna Carta for Disabled
Persons”, with new Sections 32 and 33, to read as
follows:
CHAPTER 8. Other Privileges and Incentives
“SEC. 32. Persons with disability shall be entitled to
the following:
(a) At least twenty percent (20%) discount from all establishments relative to
the utilization of all services in hotels and similar lodging establishments;
restaurants and recreation centers for the exclusive use or enjoyment of
persons with disability;
(b) A minimum of twenty percent (20%) discount on admission fees charged by
theaters, cinema houses, concert halls, circuses, carnivals and other similar
places of culture, leisure and amusement for the exclusive use of enjoyment of
persons with disability;
(c) At least twenty percent (20%) discount for the purchase of medicines in all
drugstores for the exclusive use or enjoyment of persons with disability;
d) At least twenty percent (20%) discount on medical and dental services including
diagnostic and laboratory fees such as, but not limited to, x-rays, computerized
tomography scans and blood tests, in all government facilities, subject to guidelines
to be issued by the Department of Health (DOH), in coordination with the
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PHILHEALTH);
(e) At least twenty percent (20%) discount on medical and dental services including
diagnostic and laboratory fees, and professional fees of attending doctors in all
private hospitals and medical facilities, in accordance with the rules and regulations
to be issued by the DOH, in coordination with the PHILHEALTH;
(f) At least twenty percent (20%) discount on fare for domestic air and sea travel
for the exclusive use or enjoyment of persons with disability;
(g) At least twenty percent (20%) discount in public railways, skyways and bus fare
for the exclusive use and enjoyment of person with disability;
(h) Educational assistance to persons with disability, for them to pursue primary, secondary,
tertiary, post tertiary, as well as vocational or technical education, in both public and private
schools, through the provision of scholarships, grants, financial aids, subsidies and other
incentives to qualified persons with disability, including support for books, learning material,
and uniform allowance to the extent feasible: Provided, That persons with disability shall
meet minimum admission requirements;
(i) To the extent practicable and feasible, the continuance of the same benefits and
privileges given by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Social Security
System (SSS), and PAG-IBIG, as the case may be, as are enjoyed by those in actual service;
(j) To the extent possible, the government may grant special discounts in special programs
for persons with disability on purchase of basic commodities, subject to guidelines to be
issued for the purpose by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department
of Agricultural (DA); and
(k) Provision of express lanes for persons with disability in all commercial and government
establishments; in the absence thereof, priority shall be given to them.
THE ABOVEMENTIONED PRIVILEGES ARE AVAILABLE ONLY TO
PERSONS WITH DISABILITY WHO ARE FILIPINO CITIZENS UPON
SUBMISSION OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING AS PROOF OF HIS/HER
ENTITLEMENT THERETO:
(I) An identification card issued by the city or municipal mayor or

the barangay captain of the place where the persons with
disability resides;
(II) The passport of the persons with disability concerned; or
(III) Transportation discount fare Identification Card (ID) issued
by the National Council for the Welfare of Disabled Persons
(NCWDP).
SEC. 33. Incentives. – Those caring for and living
with a person with disability shall be granted the
following incentives:
(a) Persons with disability shall be treated as dependents under the Section 35 (A) of
the National Internal Revenue Code, as amended and as such, individual taxpayers
caring for them shall be accorded the privileges granted by the code insofar as having
dependents under the same section are concerned; and
(b) Individuals or nongovernmental institutions establishing homes, residential
communities or retirement villages solely to suit the needs and requirements of
persons with disability shall be accorded the following:
(i) Realty tax holiday for the first five years of operation; and
(ii) Priority in the building and/or maintenance of provincial or municipal roads leading
to the aforesaid home, residential community or retirement village.”
SEC. 2. Repulic Act No. 7277 is hereby amended inserting a new title, chapter
and section after Section 38 be denominated as title 4, chapters 1 and 2 and
Sections 40, 41 and 42 to read as follows:
-TITLE FOUR
PROHIBITIONS ON VERBAL, NON-VERBAL RIDICULE AND VILIFICATION AGAINST
PERSONS WITH DISABILITY
“CHAPTER 1. DELIVERANCE FROM PUBLIC RIDICULE
SEC. 39. Public Ridicule. – For purposes of this chapter, public ridicule shall
be defined as an act of making fun or contemptuous imitating or making
mockery of persons with disability whether in writing, or in words, or in
action due to their impairment/s.
SEC. 40. No individual, group or community shall execute any of these acts of
ridicule against persons with disability in any time and place which could
intimidate or result in loss of self-esteem of the latter.
CHAPTER 2. Deliverance from Vilification
SEC 41. Vilification. – For purposes of this Chapter, vilification

shall be defined as:
(a) The utterance of slanderous and abusive statements against
a person with disability; and/or
(b) An activity in public which incites hatred towards, serious
contempt for, or severe ridicule of persons with disability.”
SEC. 42. Any individual, group or community is hereby prohibited

from vilifying any person with disability which could result into loss of
self-esteem of the latter.”
SEC. 3. Section 46 of Republic Act No. 7277 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
SEC. 46. Penal Clause. – (a) Any person who violates any provision of this Act
shall suffer the following penalties;
(1) For the first violation, a fine of not less than Fifty Thousand pesos (P50,000.00) but
not exceeding One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) or imprisonment of not
less than six months but not more than two years, or both at the discretion of the court;
and
(2) For any subsequent violation, a fine of not less than One hundred thousand pesos
(P100,000.00) but not exceeding Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000.00) or
imprisonment for not less than two years but not more than six years, or both at the
discretion of the court.
SEC. 3. Section 46 of Republic Act No. 7277 is hereby amended to read
as follows:
SEC. 46. Penal Clause. – (a) Any person who violates any provision of this Act
shall suffer the following penalties;
(b) Any person who abuses the privileges granted herein shall be punished with
imprisonment of not less than six months or a fine of not less than Five thousand pesos
(P5,000.00), but not more than Fifty thousand pesos (P50,000.00), or both, at the
discretion of the court.
(c) If the violator is a corporation, organization or any similar entity, the officials thereof
directly involved shall be liable therefore.
(d) If the violator is an alien or a foreigner, he shall be deported immediately after
service of sentence without further deportation proceedings.
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RA9442 MAGNA

SECTION 1. a new chapter, to be denominated as

(I) An identification card issued by the city or municipal mayor or

SEC 41. Vilification. – For purposes of this Chapter, vilification

SEC. 42. Any individual, group or community is hereby prohibited

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