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More than a month since the last one, the House of Representatives has received its 13th blockchain-related measure for the 20th Congress.
New Blockchain Bill
House Bill 5943, filed on November 12 by Galing sa Puso (GP) Partylist Rep. Jan “Atty. JP” Padiernos, seeks to establish a National Budget Transparency and Accountability System that will operate using blockchain technology.
The proposal aims to enhance public access to government spending data and strengthen safeguards against misuse of funds.
Currently, the bill is awaiting its first reading in the House of Representatives.
In addition to the blockchain bill, Padiernos also filed a series of national measures in the 20th Congress centered on education reform, agricultural development, public welfare, and consumer protection.
His bills aim to improve teachers’ benefits, exempt electricity bills from VAT, expand support for agricultural cooperatives, widen access to tertiary education for low-income and farming communities, strengthen assistance for local farmers through tariff reforms, and establish a government body to stabilize food prices.
The First 12 Blockchain Bills
Check out all the previous bills filed:
- HB 4075 — Blockchain Technology for Government Efficiency Act
Requires government agencies to use blockchain and distributed ledger technology to enhance transparency and accountability in public transactions.
- HB 4380 — Philippine National Budget Blockchain Act
Proposes a national blockchain platform for tracking the budget and establishes a Blockchain Development Council
- HB 4489 — Philippine National Budget Blockchain Act
Mandates a blockchain-based government budget system that provides real-time public access to spending data.
- HB 4611 — Government Budget Blockchain Act
Seeks to make all budget records tamper-proof and publicly accessible through a blockchain ledger.
- HB 4792 — Philippine Tokenization and Crypto Adoption Act
Creates a framework for tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins, and digital asset regulation through a National Council on Digital Assets.
- HB 4853 — National Budget Blockchain Act
Introduces a blockchain-based national budget system with added gender and development tracking features.
- HB 4935 — National Budget Blockchain Act
Aims to strengthen fiscal transparency via a phased rollout of a blockchain-powered budget platform.
- HB 5041 — Blockchain the Budget Act of 2025
Establishes an immutable blockchain framework for budget allocation and citizen oversight.
- HB 5402 — National Distributed Budget and Governance Blockchain Act of 2025
Creates a National Distributed Budget and Governance Blockchain System and establishes a Blockchain Budget Governance Board to modernize budget management and improve transparency.
- SB 433 — Digital Assets Act (Refiled)
Defines and regulates digital assets and their issuers, exchanges, and brokers under the supervision of the BSP and SEC.
- SBN 1506 — CADENA Bill
Formerly SBN 1330 Blockchain the Budget Bill, it aims to create a nationwide digital platform that makes all government budget transactions publicly trackable to strengthen transparency and accountability.
- HB 421 — Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Act
Proposes the creation of a national Bitcoin reserve to be managed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.
To read filed copies of the bills, visit: List of Blockchain and Bitcoin Bills Filed in the Philippines
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