Bangsamoro Basic Law

Bangsamoro Basic Law
Areas in red constitute the proposed Bangsamoro Autonomous Region
16th Congress of the Philippines
An Act Providing for the Basic Law for the Bangsamoro and Abolishing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Repealing for the Purpose Republic Act No. 9045, entitled "An Act to Strengthen and Expand the Organic Act for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao", and Republic Act No. 6734, entitled "An Act Providing for an Organic Act for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao", and for Other Purposes
Citation	Bangsamoro Basic Law, Bill No. 4994 of 11 September 2014 (in English). Retrieved on 22 May 2016.
Legislative history
Introduced by	Feliciano Belmonte, Jr., et al.
First reading	14 September 2014
Status: Not passed

The Bangsamoro Basic Law, often referred to by the acronym " BBL" (Filipino: Batayang Batas para sa Rehiyong Awtonomo ng Bangsamoro), was a bill deliberated upon by the 16th Congress of the Philippines which, had it passed, would have established a proposed new autonomous political entity known as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, replacing the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

As an organic act, the Basic Law would have provided for the basic structure of government for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, and enacted the agreements set forth in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro, which is the peace agreement signed between the Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2014.

The various portions of the BBL as proposed by the Bangsamoro Transition Commission which had been assigned to draft the bill include sections covering:

The draft of the law was submitted by President Benigno Aquino III to Congress leaders on September 10, 2014.

An Ad Hoc committee assigned to the bill by Philippine House of Representatives passed its version of the bill, House Bill 5811, on May 20, 2015. The bill is now under interpellation in the house plenary.

In the Philippine Senate, a revised version of the BBL, known as the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region Law (Senate Bill 2894), was presented on August 11, 2015 after lengthy deliberations on the BBL in the Committee on Local Government, and was due for interpellation on August 17, 2015. Due to the length and complexity of the bill, however, the senate temporarily deferred the period of interpellation for the bill. The 16th Congress went on recess without passing the bill on February 2, 2016. The bill was shelved and will not be taken up by the 17th Congress of the Philippines. Instead the bill would be subsumed by the proposed federalism.