05/02/2020 R.A. 6766 (F) No law shall be passed authorizing any transfer of appropriations; however, the Cordillera Governor and the Speaker of the Cordillera Assembly may, by regional law, be authorized to augment any item in the regional appropriations law for their respective offices from savings in other items of their respective appropriations. (G) Discretionary funds appropriated for particular officials shall be disbursed only for public purposes to be supported by appropriate vouchers and subject to such guidelines as may be prescribed by regional law. (H) If, by the end of any fiscal year, the Cordillera Assembly shall have failed to pass the regional appropriations bill for the ensuing fiscal year, the Regional Appropriations Law for the preceding fiscal year shall be deemed reenacted and shall remain in force and effect until the regional appropriations bill is passed by the Cordillera Assembly. (I) The Cordillera Governor shall have the power to veto any particular item or items in an appropriation or revenue bill, but the veto shall not affect the item or items to which he does not object. Section 19. (A) The rule of taxation shall be uniform and equitable. The Cordillera Assembly shall evolve a progressive system of taxation. (B) Charitable institutions, churches, parsonages or convents appurtenant thereto, mosques and temples, non-profit cemeteries, and all lands, buildings and improvements actually, directly and exclusively used for religious or charitable purposes shall be exempt from taxation. Section 20. (A) No money shall be paid out of the Regional Treasury except in pursuance of an appropriation made by regional law. (B) No public money or property shall be appropriated, applied, paid or used directly or indirectly for the use, benefit or support of any sect, church, denomination, sectarian institution, or system of religion or for the use, benefit or support of any priest, preacher, minister, imam or other religious teacher or dignitary as such, except when such priest, preacher, minister, imam or dignitary is assigned to the regional police or government orphanage and rehabilitation centers or similar institutions. (C) All money collected on any regional tax levied for a special purpose shall be treated as a special fund and paid out for such purpose only. If the purpose for which a special fund was created has been fulfilled or abandoned, the balance, if any, shall be transferred to the general fund of the Regional Government. itc@alf Section 21. (A) Every bill shall embrace only one (1) subject which shall be expressed in the title thereof. (B) No bill shall become a law unless it has passed three (3) readings on separate days, and printed copies thereof in its final form have been distributed to the Members three (3) days before its passage, except when the Cordillera Governor certifies to the necessity of its immediate enactment to meet a public calamity or emergency affecting the region or any of its component provinces, cities, municipalities or barangay or ili. Upon the last reading of a bill, no amendment thereto shall be allowed and the vote thereon shall be taken immediately thereafter, and the yeas and nays entered in the Journal. Section 22. Every bill passed by the Cordillera Assembly shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the Cordillera Governor. If he approves the same, he shall sign it; otherwise, if the bill contains ultra vires provisions, or if he finds it objectionable on policy grounds, or both, he shall veto it and return it with his objections to the Cordillera Assembly, which shall enter the objections at large in its Journal and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds (2/3) of all the Members of the Assembly shall agree to pass the bill, it shall become a law. In all such cases, the vote shall be determined by yeas or nays, and the names of the Members voting for or against shall be entered in the Journal. The Cordillera Governor shall communicate his veto of any bill to the Assembly within thirty (30) days after the date of receipt thereof; otherwise, it shall become a law as if he had signed it. Section 23. The Speaker of the Cordillera Assembly shall, within ten (10) working days from approval thereof, submit to the President and to both Houses of Congress a certified true copy of all laws and resolutions passed by the Cordillera Assembly. ARTICLE VI The Executive Department Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a Cordillera Governor who shall be elected at large by direct vote of the people of the Autonomous Region. Section 2. No person may be elected Cordillera Governor unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, and on the day of the election is at least thirty-five (35) years of age, able to read and write, a registered voter in the region and an actual resident thereof for a period of not less than five (5) years immediately preceding the day of election. Section 3. The Cordillera Governor shall be assisted by a Cabinet of six (6) members at least four (4) of whom shall preferably come from indigenous cultural communities: Provided, That the members shall, as far as practicable, come from various provinces and cities within the Autonomous Region. The members of the Cabinet must be registered voters and residents of the region for at least five (5) years immediately preceding their appointment. The Cordillera Governor shall appoint the members of the Cabinet subject to confirmation by the Regional Commission on Appointments. Section 4. There shall be a Cordillera Deputy Governor who shall have the same qualifications and term of office and be elected with and in the same manner as the Cordillera Governor. He may be removed from office in the same manner as the Cordillera Governor. The Cordillera Deputy Governor may be appointed as a member of the Regional Cabinet. Such appointment requires no confirmation. Section 5. The Cordillera Governor and the Cordillera Deputy Governor shall be elected by direct vote of the people of the Autonomous Region for a term of three (3) years which shall begin at noon on the thirty-first day of March next following the day of election and shall end at noon of the same date three (3) years thereafter. No Cordillera Governor or Cordillera Deputy Governor shall serve for more than three (3) consecutive terms. Voluntary renunciation of, or removal from, office for any length of time shall not be considered as an interruption in the continuity of the service for the full term for which he was elected. Unless otherwise provided by national law, the regular election for the Cordillera Governor and Cordillera Deputy Governor shall be held on the second Monday of February. Section 6. The Cordillera Governor and the Cordillera Deputy Governor on assuming office shall take the following oath or affirmation: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully and conscientiously fulfill my duties as Cordillera Governor (or Cordillera Deputy Governor) of the Cordillera Autonomous Region, presence and defend the Constitution https://www.lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1989/ra_6766_1989.html 5/14