List of Philippine laws

This article contains a partial list of Philippine laws. Philippine laws have had various nomenclature designations at different periods in the history of the Philippines, as shown in the following table:

**Designations used for Philippine laws**
Nomenclature Designation	Abbreviation	Form of government	Dates
Act	Act	United States Occupation	1900-1935
Commonwealth Act	CA	Philippine Commonwealth	1935-1946
Batas Pambansa	BP	Modified Parliamentary Republic	1978-1985
Presidential Decree	PD	Republic under martial law/Republic	1972-1986
Presidential Proclamation	PP	Republic under martial law	1972-1986
Executive Order	EO	Republic under 1986 Provisional Constitution	1986-1987
Presidential Proclamation	PP	Republic under 1986 Provisional Constitution	1986-1987
Republic Act	RA	Republic	1946-72, 1987-present

The following table lists of Philippine laws which have been mentioned in Wikipedia, or which are otherwise notable.

Designation	Date Passed	What it Did
Act 1696	September 6, 1907	Known as the Flag Law, this law proscribed the Philippine flag and banned the use of the Philippine national anthem. The law was repealed in 1919.
Act 1790	October 12, 1907	Permitted the Banco Español-Filipino to change its name. The name change took place on January 1, 1912 into today's Bank of the Philippine Islands.
Act 1876	August 18, 1908	Mountain Province was established with Amburayan, Apayao, Benguet, Bontoc, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto as sub-provinces.
Act 1952		The province of Batanes was reestablished.
Act 2280	February 21, 1920	Marinduque was reestablished as a separate province.
Act 2711	March 10, 1917	Established most of the modern-day provinces of the Philippines: the province of Camarines was split into Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur and the province of Bohol was created.
Act 2871	October 22, 1919	Repealed the Flag Law and legalized the use of the Philippine flag and national anthem.
Act 3436	November 28, 1928	Established the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) with the bill granting it a 50-year charter.
Act 3815	December 8, 1930	The Revised Penal Code.
Act 3827	October 28, 1931	Declared the last Sunday of August as National Heroes' Day.
CA 1	December 21, 1935	The National Defense Act of 1935, which created an independent Philippine army.
CA 39	October 21, 1936	Established Zamboanga City.
CA 63	October 21, 1936	An act providing for the ways in which Philippine citizenship may be lost or reacquired.
CA 382	December 5, 1938	The English words to the Philippine national anthem were made official.
CA 473	June 17, 1939	Revised Naturalization Law.
CA 502	October 22, 1939	Established Quezon City.
RA 14	September 7, 1946	Changed the name of the province of Tayabas to Quezon.
RA 85		Charter of the Development Bank of the Philippines.
RA 265		Established the Central Bank of the Philippines.
RA 305	December 15, 1948	Declared Naga City a chartered city.
RA 333	July 17, 1948	Declared Quezon City the capital of the Philippines.
RA 387	June 18, 1949	Petroleum Act of 1949
RA 537	June 16, 1950	Extended the area of Quezon City.
RA 711	June 6, 1952	The province of Zamboanga is split into Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur.
RA 1414	April 25, 1956	Separated Aklan from Capiz
RA 2141	April 8, 1959	Made Biliran a sub-province of Leyte.
RA 2733	June 10, 1960	Assert that the first mass in the Philippines took place at a site on Limasawa, Southern Leyte; declare the site a national shrine.
RA 2786	June 19, 1960	The province of Surigao is split into Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur.
RA 3518	June 18, 1963	Established the Philippine Veterans Bank
RA 3844	August 8, 1963	Established the pace for land reform in the Philippines. Landbank was formed from this law.
RA 4200	June 19, 1965	The anti-wiretapping law.
RA 4695	June 18, 1966	Formed the provinces of Kalinga-Apayao, Benguet, Ifugao, and Mountain Province from the earlier Mountain Province
RA 4979		Divided Agusan into Agusan del Norte and Agusan del Sur
RA 6134	August 30, 1970	Converted the town of Surigao, Surigao del Norte into a city
RA 6173		Oil Industry Commission Act
RA 6395		Charter of the National Power Corporation
RA 6396	September 17, 1971	Made Siquijor an independent province.
RA 6430	June 17, 1972	Changed the name of the province of Davao del Norte to Davao.
BP 8	December 2, 1978	Defined the metric system and set the basis for the implementation of the metric system in the Philippines. Modern Philippine Standard Time was also instituted under this law.
BP 54	December 22, 1979	Set the date of January 30, 1980 as the date for a plebiscite to ratify the 1976 amendments to the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines.
BP 122	March 10, 1981	Set the date of April 7, 1981 as the date for a plebiscite to ratify the 1981 amendments to the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines.
BP 185	March 16, 1982	Provides that a natural-born citizen of the Philippines who has lost his Philippine citizenship may be a transferee of private land, for use by him as his residence, subject to the provisions of this Act.
BP 880	December 3, 1985	Public Assembly Act of 1985
BP 881	December 3, 1985	Omnibus Election Code of the Philippines
BP 883	December 3, 1985	Set the date of February 7, 1986 as the date for a SNAP Election for President and Vice-President. Ferdinand Marcos and Arturo Tolentino win the election, but are overthrown by the EDSA Revolution, bringing Corazon Aquino and Salvador Laurel to power.
RA 6639	November 27, 1987	Changed the name of Manila International Airport to Ninoy Aquino International Airport.
RA 6645	December 28, 1987	Prescribes the manner in how to fill a vacancy in the Congress of the Philippines.
RA 6709	February 10, 1989	Declared November 5 as a non-working holiday for the province of Negros Occidental to commemorate Cinco de Noviembre, the day Negros became free.
RA 6734	August 1, 1989	Created the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), which was officially inaugurated on November 6, 1990 in Cotabato City.
RA 6735	August 4, 1989	Set up a system of initiative and referendum.
RA 6766	October 23, 1989	Provided for an Organic Act for the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR). It mandates the creation of an autonomous government to be headed by a Regional Governor. It creates a Regional Assembly that will enact laws of regional application and a regional judiciary composed of a supreme court and lower courts.
RA 7042	June 13, 1991	Foreign Investments Act of 1991
RA 7104	August 14, 1991	Commission on the Filipino Language Act
RA 7156	September 12, 1991	Mini-Hydro Law
RA 7160	October 10, 1991	"Local Government Code of 1991."
RA 7653	June 14, 1993	The New Central Bank Act
RA 7638	December 9, 1994	Charter of the Department of Energy
RA 7648	April 5, 1993	Electric Power Crisis Act
RA 7832	December 8, 1994	"Anti-electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994" / an act penalizing the pilferage of electricity and theft of power transmission lines/materials, rationalizing system losses by phasing out pilferage losses as a component thereof, and for other purposes.
RA 7878	February 14, 1995	Divided Kalinga-Apayao into Kalinga and Apayao provinces.
RA 8171	October 23, 1995	"An act providing for the repatriation of Filipino women who have lost their Philippine citizenship by marriage to aliens and natural-born Filipinos."
RA 8179	March 28, 1996	"An act further liberalizing foreign investments, amending for the purpose Republic Act No. 7042, and for other purposes."
RA 8223	December 8, 1996	Converted the municipality of Marikina, Metro Manila into a city.
RA 8293	June 6, 1997	The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Philippine copyright law).
RA 8353	September 30, 1997	The Anti-Rape Law of 1997.
RA 8438	December 22, 1997	Created the Cordillera Autonomous Region. A plebiscite, held on March 9, 1998 to ratify the bill, was held and invalidated the act. See Cordillera Administrative Region.
RA 8470	January 31, 1998	Split the province of Davao into two, creating the province of Compostela Valley.
RA 8471	January 31, 1998	Created the Island Garden City of Samal in Davao province by combining the municipalities of Samal, Babak, and Kaputian.
RA 8472	January 31, 1998	Converted the municipality of Tagum, the capital of Davao, into a city.
RA 8473	January 31, 1998	Created the municipality of Braulio E. Dujali, Davao out of several barangays in Panabo and Carmen.
RA 8479	February 10, 1998	"Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act of 1998" / An act deregulating the downstream oil industry and for other purposes
RA 8491	February 12, 1998	Prescribed the code of the national flag, anthem, motto, coat-of-arms and other heraldic items and devices of the Philippines.
RA 8535	February 23, 1998	Provided for the creation of the City of Novaliches comprising the 15 northernmost barangays of Quezon City. However, in the succeeding plebiscite on October 23, 1999, an overwhelming majority of Quezon City residents voted “no” to the bill.
RA 8749	June 23, 1999	"Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999" / An act providing for a Comprehensive Air Pollution Control Policy and for Other Purposes
RA 8981	December 5, 2000	"PRC Modernization Act Of 2000" / An act providing for the modernization of the Professional Regulation Commission.
RA 9006	February 12, 2001	"Fair Election Act of 2001" / An act to enhance the holding of free, orderly, honest, peaceful and credible elections through fair election practices.
RA 9015	March 5, 2001	Converted the municipality of Panabo, Davao into a city.
RA 9136	June 8, 2001	"Electric Power Industry Reforms Act of 2001" / An act ordaining reforms in the electric power industry, amending for the purpose certain laws and for other purposes
RA 9139	June 8, 2001	"The Administrative Naturalization Law of 2000"
RA 9160	September 29, 2001	"Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2001". Subsequent foreign pressure by the FATF and by other nations resulted in this act being amended.
RA 9164	March 19, 2002	"Synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections"
RA 9165	June 7, 2002	"Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002"
RA 9179	November 13, 2002	"Barangay Micro Business Enterprises (BMBE's) Act of 2002."
RA 9189	February 13, 2003	"Overseas Absentee Voting Act of 2003" / An act providing for a system of overseas absentee voting by qualified citizens of the Philippines abroad, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes
RA 9225	August 29, 2003	"Citizenship Retention and Re-Acquisition Act of 2003" / An act making the citizenship of Philippine citizens who acquire foreign citizenship permanent, amending for the purpose Commonwealth Act No. 63, as amended, and for other purposes.
RA 9262	March 8, 2004	Inspired by the life of Dolores Lorenzo, this act gives the protection of the law to women and children suffering from domestic abuse.
RA 9334	December 21, 2004	An act increasing the excise tax rates imposed on alcohol and tobacco products, amending for the purpose sections 131, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, and 288 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as amended. Also known as the "sin tax" law.
RA 9335	January 25, 2005	"Lateral Attrition Act of 2005" / an act to improve the revenue collection performance of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Bureau of Customs (BOC) through the creation of a rewards and incentives fund and of a revenue performance evaluation board and for other purposes
RA 9337	May 24, 2005	An act amending sections 27, 28, 34, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 119, 121, 148, 151, 236, 237 and 288 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as amended, and for other purposes. Also known as the "expanded value-added tax" or the "E-VAT" law.
RA 9340	May 25, 2005	"Synchronized Barangay and Sangguiniang Kabataan Elections Resetting" / An act resetting the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections, extending the term of officeof Barangay and Sangguiniang Kabataan Officials and for other purposes.
RA 9346	June 24, 2006	The act repealing the death penalty, replacing the sentence with the sentence of life imprisonment and reclusión perpetua.
RA 9367	January 12, 2007	"Biofuels Act of 2006" / An act to direct the use of Biofuels, establishing for this purpose the Biofuel Program, appropriating funds therefor, and for other purposes.
RA 9369	January 23, 2007	"Amending the Election Modernization Act" / An act amending Republic Act No. 8436, Entitled "An Act Authorizing The Commission on Elections to use an Automated Election System in the May 11, 1998 National or Local Elections and in Subsequent National and Local Electoral Exercises, to Encourage Transparency, Credibility, Fairness and Accuracy of Elections, amending for the purpose Batas Pambansa Blg. 881, as amemded, Republic Act No. 7166 and other related elections laws, providing funds therefor and for other purposes
RA 9372	March 6, 2007	The Human Security Act of 2007
RA 9492	July 25, 2007	The act that mandates the celebration of certain public holidays to the nearest weekday. Also known as the holiday economics law.
RA 9500	April 29, 2008	The University of the Philippines Charter of 2008. Declaring it as the National University.