FIFTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES First Regular Session ) ) ) SENATE S.B.No. 1342 Introduced by Senator Loren Legarda AN ACT PROHIBITING RELIGIOUS OR RACIAL PROFILING Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled: SECTION 1. Title - This act shall be known as the Anti- Religious and Racial Profiling Act of 201 O. SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. It is hereby declared as the policy of the State to value the dignity of every human person and to guarantee full respect for human rights. SECTION 3. Racial Profiling, as defined. The term means the practice of relying to any degree, on race, ethnicity, and religious affiliations in selecting individuals to subject to routine or spontaneous investigatory activities. SECTION 4. Prohibited Acts. The following shall constitute religious and racial profiling and shall be deemed punishable under this Act: (a) To subject a person to unnecessary, unjustified, illegal and degrading search because of his manner of clothing or by reason of his religion, color, creed or ethnic identity; (b) To discriminate a person who is applying for a job just because of his name, religion or ethnic background; (c) To disallow an individual from entering any establishment such as restaurants, hotels, shopping malls and other places of similar nature or to subject him to discrimination or harassment in relation to other passengers in buses, taxis, ship or airplanes because he happens to don a peculiar attire such as wearing of veil, turban or any other traditional costumes or because of his color, creed, belief and ethnicity; (d) To, employ religious characterization such as words of religious import in print and broadcast media when geographic, political, socio- economic or other distinction might be more accurate; and (e) To mimic or imitate a person's way of speaking particularly his peculiar accent and diction in an insulting and degrading manner. SECTION 5. Penalties - The penalty of arresto mayor minimum to prison correctional minimum or a fine of ten thousand (10,000) to thirty thousand (30,000) 1