Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

2800

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: HON, CLAUDE P. BAUTISTA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Fishing Village Comprehensive National High School-Bolila
Extension (formerly Benjamin V. Bautista Special High School) has had
that extension status for eight (8) years since its establishment in AY
2010-2011. The main campus of this school is located in Malita which
is 10 kilometers away from Bolila. It consists ofthree (3) classrooms
with the school seated in a I-hectare location, Since its opening in the
years 2010-2011, it has catered to Grade 7 to Grade 10 with a total
population of 250 students. There were feeder schools with one section
per grade level and is serviced by a teaching force of nine regular and
permanent teachers including the Teacher-inCharge.

This Bill seeks for the establishment of Bolila National High
School in the Municipality of Malita in the Province of Davao
Occidental. The aim is for those students who have graduated from
their elementary school is to pursue their secondary education without
having to go to the trouble of traveling the distance to the main
campus. This can only be expected because majority of the residents in
Bolila are subsistence farmers and small fishermen. The Bolila
Extension, attached as it were with the main campus is saddled with
the problem of non-continuance in studying secondary education
because of scare resources confronting the family and students.

When converted into Bolila National High School, the Extension
will give the opportunity to the proposed high school to act
independently and maximize its educational services, cope with the
student population in the locality, show its capability as an
independent and separate school and be given equal opportunities to
exist and complete academically with other national high schools,
promote functional literacy among less fortunate students in the
suburbs, and provide employment opportunities.

Bolila National High School as being proposed for establishment
are now using facilities donated by Vice Governor Franklin P. Bautista,
specifically the fourclassrooms makeshift building and one faculty
office, administration office, stock room, Library, SSG office and clinic.
Once approved, Budgetary Requirements composed of Personnel
Services, MOOE, and Capital Outlay need the allocation for its
operations.


Section 2 of Republic Act No. 9155 states "The State shall protect
and promote the right of all citizens to quality basic education and to
make such education accessible to all by providing all Filipino children
a free and compulsory education in the high school level."

If only for the mandate of the Constitution that all Filipinos must

be given the opportunity to be educated, passage of this Bill is highly
recommended.

CLAI ‘BAUTISTA


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

2800

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: HON, CLAUDE P. BAUTISTA

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN BARANGAY
BOLILA, MUNICIPALITY OF MALITA, PROVINCE OF DAVAO OCCIDENTAL
TO BE KNOWN AS BOLILA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, AND APPOPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby established, under the supervision of the
Department of Education, a national high school in Barangay Bolila,
Municipality of Malita, Province of Davao Occidental to be known as the Bolila
National High School.

SECTION 2. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department's program the operationalization of the Bolila National High
School, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General
Appropriations Act.

SECTION 3. Within one hundred twenty (120) days from the approval of
this Act, the Secretary of Education shall formulate the rules and regulations
implementing the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,