Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 6422

Introduced by Hon. Salvador B. Belaro Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The greatest resource of our country today is its human resources. Statistics
shows that our country already enjoys a demographic sweet spot—that condition
whereby we have a larger proportion of the population absorbable by the work
force.

To maintain such advantage, it is necessary that in the forthcoming years,
all children of school age enter the school system upon entering kindergarten age
and not later, as it will impact on the number of available literate work force.

At the same time, it is necessary that upon completion of our
schoolchildren of Grade 10 or Junior High School, they should be shepherded to
Senior High School, This is so as the objectives of Senior High School is the
enabling of its graduates to be ready for basic employment.

To attain the foregoing twin objectives, it is necessary to harness the
barangay, the basic unit of our government so as to ensure that everybody enjoys
the benefit of free education at least up to senior high school.


Itis for the foregoing reasons that the early passage of this bill is earnestly
sought.

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SALVADOR B. BELARO, JR.
Representative
1-Ang Edukasyon Party List



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. 6422

Introduced by: Hon. Salvador B. Belaro Jr.

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING AN EDUCATION COMMITTEE IN EVERY
BARANGAY IN THE COUNTRY TO ENSURE THAT ALL SCHOOL,
AGE CHILDREN ENTER THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AT
KINDERGARTEN AGE AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL UPON
COMPLETION OF GRADE 10 AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFOR

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines

“TION 1. This Act shall be known as the “Universal Timely Access to Free
Education for All Through the Barangays Act of 2017”.

SECTION 2. The Constitution provides that the State shall protect and promote
the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels of education and shall
take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.

‘The State shall establish and maintain a system of free public education in
the elementary and high school levels. Without limiting the natural right of
parents to rear their children, elementary education is compulsory for all children
of school age.


SECTION 3. It is hereby mandated that there should be a Barangay Education
Committee in every barangay headed by the Barangay Captain and with at least
two (2) Barangay Kagawad as members.

‘The Barangay Education Committee shall be tasked with contacting the
parents of all children of Kindergarten age to ensure that their children enter
Kindergarten at such age and to maintain them in school thereafter.

Furthermore, the Barangay Education Committee shall be tasked with
contacting the parents of all schoolchildren who graduated from Grade 10 or
Junior High School to ensure that they enter our Senior High Schools. In
appropriate cases, the Education Committee shall also be in-charge of facilitating
the release of school vouchers to students of Senior High School students to
ensure that they complete Senior High School.

SECTION 4. The Department of Education, in coordination with the Department
of Interior and Local Government, shall be tasked of formulating the necessary
rules and regulations of this Act.

SECTION 5. An initial amount of Twenty Million Pesos (P20,000,000.00)
ary for the implementation of this act shall be included in the Annual
General Appropriations Act upon the effectivity of this Act.

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SECTION 6. If any provision hereof is held invalid or unconstitutional, the
remainder of the law or provision not otherwise affected shall remain valid and
subsisting.

Ss ON 7. All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, rules and
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed or modified accordingly.

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‘ON 8. This act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.