Congress of the Philippines Seventeenth Congress Third Regular Session }

S E N A T E

S. No. 1558

(In substitution of S. Nos. 1250, 1254 and 1326)

Prepared and submitted jointly by the Committees ON Women , Children , Family Relations and Gender Equality; Civil Service, Government Reorganization and Professional Regulation; Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development; and J ustice and Human Rights with Senators Hontiveros, Poe, Villanueva and De Lima as authors thereof

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AN ACT DEFINING AND PENALIZING STREET SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND PUBLIC SPACES HARASSMENT, EXPANDING THE DEFINITION OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT, AND AMENDING FOR THIS PURPOSE REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7877, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

Section l. Title. - This Act shall be known as the

“Safe Streets, Workplaces and Pubhc Spaces Act of 2017”.

Sec. 2. Declaration of Principles. - It is the pohcy of

the State to value the dignity of every human person and