House rewrote the Seal of Good Local Governance as SMGLG. Score LGUs on outcomes and split DILG with DEPDev, or keep RA 11292’s all-criteria SGLG Fund?

legal_basis: [
  {
    "source_id": "hb-11563-third-reading-pdf",
    "claim": "HB 11563 printed an SMGLG system with human-development and local-governance criteria, DILG chair, DEPDev co-chair, DILG and DEPDev implementation, PSA as data custodian, and each LGU measured against its own historical performance."
  },
  {
    "source_id": "ra-11292-juris-sglg-fund",
    "claim": "RA 11292 as printed makes SGLG an award and incentive program, requires passing all criteria for conferment, and creates the SGLG Fund with spending restrictions."
  },
  {
    "source_id": "jurisdiction-dilg-depdev-psa",
    "claim": "The printed bill assigns implementation to DILG and DEPDev and data custody to PSA, while current RA 11292 leaves Fund management with DILG under the Council."
  }
]

burden: {
  "who_pays": "LGUs pay data collection and reporting costs. DILG, DEPDev, PSA, and DICT absorb implementation and repository costs unless Congress appropriates more. Incentive money comes from the statutory fund or later budget source.",
  "who_administers": "DILG and DEPDev administer the SMGLG system through the Council. PSA maintains the public data repository with DICT technical support.",
  "who_is_harmed_if_wrong": "If metrics are weak, LGUs may chase easy numbers or manipulate data. If RA 11292 stays unchanged, improving LGUs can remain unrewarded because they fail one all-or-nothing criterion."
}

prediction: {
  "claim": "If formulas and source data are published, more low-capacity LGUs will show measurable year-on-year improvement without requiring them to match richer LGUs immediately.",
  "horizon": "Two award cycles after enactment",
  "metric": "Number and share of LGUs with verified improvement in at least three human-development dimensions and published PSA-backed data."
}

cost_estimate: {
  "narrative": "Costs are mainly data infrastructure, metric validation, interagency review, and incentives. The published materials give no 2026 peso amount for the SGLG Fund or SMGLG incentives, so no peso estimate should be invented."
}

confidence: 0.66
prior_art: [
  {
    "citation": "House Bill No. 11563, Seal of Meritocracy and Good Local Governance Act"
  }
]
prior_art_verification: pending_verification

legal_basis: [
  {
    "source_id": "hb-11563-third-reading-pdf",
    "claim": "The printed third-reading text measures outcomes in health, education, economic standards of living, peace and order, and consumer-price affordability against local conditions and historical performance, includes barangays, seats DILG as chair with DEPDev as co-chair, gives the statistics authority full technical assistance, and truncates in a new Section 7-A."
  },
  {
    "source_id": "ra-11292-juris-sglg-fund",
    "claim": "RA 11292 prints the Seal as an all-criteria recognition program — an LGU passes all criteria to be conferred — and creates the Seal of Good Local Governance Fund, with the Council setting incentives from awardee count, replenished in the DILG appropriation; no peso printed."
  },
  {
    "source_id": "budget-smglg-no-peso",
    "claim": "No Seal fund or SMGLG incentive peso is printed; the Local Government Support Fund appears only in the second-reading coverage, not the printed third-reading text."
  },
  {
    "source_id": "jurisdiction-dilg-depdev-psa",
    "claim": "As printed, the DILG Secretary chairs the Council, the DEPDev Secretary co-chairs, both are implementing agencies, and the statistics authority is national data custodian."
  }
]

burden: {
  "who_pays": "The national government through the Seal of Good Local Governance Fund, replenished in the DILG appropriation; no peso is published. LGUs carry their own data and audit-preparation costs.",
  "who_administers": "The Council of Meritocracy and Good Local Governance: the DILG Secretary chairs, the DEPDev Secretary co-chairs, both agencies jointly run the Secretariat, the statistics authority provides data, and five committees supply the human-development metrics.",
  "who_is_harmed_if_wrong": "LGUs whose baselines are badly set lose incentives through no fault of their own; citizens lose a signal that distinguishes good governance from improvement off a low base; a co-chaired council can leave the score with no single owner."
}

prediction: {
  "claim": "If enacted with the incentive sections still unprinted, the first SMGLG cycle pays awardees under the existing Fund rule keyed to awardee count rather than a score-tiered rule, because no tiered pay provision is printed.",
  "horizon": "first award cycle after the implementing rules, through 2028",
  "metric": "the published SMGLG incentive rule: flat per-awardee amount versus score-tiered amounts."
}

cost_estimate: {
  "narrative": "No peso is published for the Fund or the SMGLG incentives. Structure: Fund outlays scale with awardee count under the 2019 law's printed rule; the rewrite adds Council, committee, statistics-agency data, and LGU reporting costs inside existing agency budgets unless Congress adds a line."
}

confidence: 0.55
prior_art: [
  {
    "citation": "House Bill No. 11563, Seal of Meritocracy and Good Local Governance Act — passed the House on third reading on 12 October 2026 in the LEDAC batch, amending RA 11292; no Senate counterpart printed."
  }
]
prior_art_verification: pending_verification