Bangsamoro Transition Authority
The Bangsamoro Transition Authority is the interim regional government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and has executive and legislative powers over the region.
History
With the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law following a plebiscite on January 21, 2019 the abolition process of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao begins paving way for the formal creation of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region. Under the law a transition body, the Bangsamoro Transition Authority, is to be organized pending the election of the new region's government officials in 2022.It was planned that the BTA will be constituted in February 2019. It is projected that the transition body will compose of a total of 105 members until June 30, 2019. After that date the body will compose of only 80 members.
Until the BTA was constituted, Section 5 of Article XVI of the Bangsamoro Organic Law provided for a caretaker body consisting of the same 25 ARMM officials as well as the original 20 members of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission.
The 80 appointed members of the BTA took their oath on February 22, 2019 with the official turnover of the ARMM to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region occurred on February 26, 2019.
Transition work
During the transition period, the BTA as the interim parliament had obligations to complete.Transition plan
The Bangsamoro Organic Law mandates interim Chief Minister Murad Ebrahim to submit to the BTA within the first 60 days of the transition period a transition plan containing the Bangsamoro government's "proposed organizational plan, as well as, the schedule for implementation therefor." It also requires the approval or action of the BTA on the proposed plan within 10 days upon its submission. If there is failure to act upon the plan within 10 days, the plan would be automatically approved and implemented within 15 days. According to Murad the start of the transition period for the purpose of submitting the transition plan was on March 29, or the inaugural session of the interim parliament. The plan's deadline is stated to be on May 2019.The transition plan was then submitted to the Bangsamoro Parliament on June 17, 2019 and was approved by the legislature the following day.
Priority laws
The BTA as the interim Bangsamoro parliament is also required to pass into law "priority legislation" enumerated in the Bangsamoro Organic Law. Following the fourth session of the parliament, eight ad-hoc committees were formed to draft the priority legislations.| Legislation | Status |
| Bangsamoro Administrative Code | To be legislated |
| Bangsamoro Internal Revenue Code | To be legislated |
| Bangsamoro Indigenous People's Affairs Code | To be legislated |
| Bangsamoro Civil Service Code | To be legislated |
| Bangsamoro Electoral Code | To be legislated |
| Bangsamoro Local Government Code | To be legislated |
| Bangsamoro Education Code | To be legislated |