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Nineteenth Congress es ;

First Regular Session

4173

HOUSE BILL NO.

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE ADRIAN MICHAEL A. AMATONG

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to convert the Immaculada Elementary School and the
Balas National High School-Immaculada Extension into an integrated school,
to be known as the Immaculada Integrated School.

Immaculada Elementary School and Balas National High School-
Immaculada Extension are located at Barangay Immaculada in the
Municipality of Labason, a third-class municipality in the Province of
Zamboanga del Norte. Currently, Immaculada Elementary School has 83
students from Grades 1-6. On the other hand, Balas National High School-
Immaculada Extension has 87 students from Grades 7-10.

The conversion of Immaculada Elementary School and the Balas
National High School-Immaculada Extension is sought considering that they
are sixteen (16) kilometers away from the nearest high school. Thus, students
who finished Grades 1-6 from Immaculada Elementary School do not need to
go to other far high schools for their junior high school education. Moreover,
the conversion of Immaculada Elementary School and Balas National High-
School Immaculada Extension into an integrated school will provide them with
more funds necessary for the construction of classrooms and employment of
permanent teaching and non-teaching personnel.

It is also noteworthy that the conversion of Immaculada Elementary
School and Balas National High School-Immaculada Extension into an
integrated school is recommended by the Schools Division Office of Zamboanga
del Norte.

In turn, this measure will uphold the State’s mandate under the
Constitution to ‘protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality
education at all levels” and to “take appropriate steps to make such education
accessible to all.”

In view of the foregoing, the approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

ADI ic} A. AMATONG


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Nineteenth Congress
First Regular Session

4773

HOUSE BILL NO.

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE ADRIAN MICHAEL A. AMATONG

AN ACT
CONVERTING IMMACULADA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND
BALAS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL-IMMACULADA EXTENSION
IN BARANGAY IMMACULADA, MUNICIPALITY OF LABASON, PROVINCE OF
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE INTO AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN
AS THE IMMACULADA INTEGRATED SCHOOL,
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. The Immaculada Elementary School and the Balas National High
School-Immaculada Extension in Barangay Immaculada, Municipality of
Labason, Province of Zamboanga del Norte, are hereby converted into an
integrated school, to be known as the Immaculada Integrated School.

SEC. 2. All personnel, asses, liabilities, and records of Immaculada
Elementary School and Balas National High School-Immaculada Extension are
hereby transferred to and absorbed by the Immaculada Integrated School.

SEC. 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department's program, the operationalization of the Immaculada Integrated
School, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General
Appropriations Act.

SEC. 4. The Secretary of Education shall formulate the necessary rules and
regulations to carry out the purpose of this Act within ninety (90) days after its
effectivity.

SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.