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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

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HOUSE BILL NO. 14

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Act seeks to improve the nutrition of all our public elementary
schoolchildren by establishing a regular weekly feeding day for all public
elementary schools and implementing other measures that would improve the
nutrition of our schoolchildren.

The passage of this bill will breathe life to the constitutional primacy
given to the health of our citizens by instituting laws intended to benefit those
who have less in life by giving them more through legislation.

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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
First Regular Session

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Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A NUTRITION PROGRAM FOR ALL PUBLIC
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1.Short Title, - This Act shall be known as the “School Nutrition Act
of 2016.”

SEC. 2.Declaration of Policy. The primacy of the health of our people is a state
policy enshrined in our Constitution, So is the priority given to education. There
is an inextricable link between health and education because healthy mind and
bodies are more conducive to be educated. Thus, there is a continuing need to
attend to the nutrition needs of our schoolchildren all over the country.

SEC. 3.Scope. Alll enrolled pupils or students in public elementary schools shall
be covered by this Act.

SEC. 4, Every Friday of the week shall be designated as a feeding day for
all elementary schools all over the country. During the said feeding, a nutritious
meal shall be served at lunctime upon all the enrolled students in all public
elementary schools all over the country.


SEC.5. In addition to the establishment of a regular feeding day,
comprehensive but reasonable nutrition program shall be implemented in every
school by the Nutrition Couneil of said school.

SEC. 4. Nutrition Council. a) It is hereby mandated that all public elementary
schools in the country should immediately constitute upon the passage of this
Act, a Nutrition Council composed of the School Principal, as Chairman; the
School Nurse, if there is any; the Barangay Captain or his duly authorized
representative of the barangay where the school is located; the President of the
Parent Teachers Association and two (2) other members who are the most
senior teachers in the said school.

b) The Nutrition Council shall, in coordination with the Municipal Health
Officer (MHO) of the municipality where the schools is situated, formulate an
integrated nutrition program for the schoolchildren of their school.

©) The Nutrition Council shall supervise and ensure the successful
implementation of the aforementioned school nutrition program which should
integrate all existing feeding and nutrition programs of all agencies of
government and the private sector.

SEC. 6. The Department of Education (DepEd), the Department of Health, and
(DoH), and the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) are
mandated to formulate the implementing rules and guidelines of this Act which
shall be followed by the various Nutrition Councils that will be created by
virtue of this Act.

SEC. 7. The funds neccessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its enactment
into law and thereafter
SEC. 8. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or
amended accordingly.

SEC. 9. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

Approved,