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Quezon City, Metro Manila

FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
3% Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 8525

Introduced by:
REP. FRANCISCO T. MATUGAS
1S" District, Surigao del Norte (Siargao Island)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Constitution explicitly provides that the State shall promote
physical education and encourage sports programs, league
competitions, and amateur sports, including training for international
competitions, to foster self-discipline, teamwork, and excellence for the
development of a healthy and alert citizenry.

Pursuant to this Constitutional mandate, the establishment of a
sports academy will encourage the people, particularly the youth, to
indulge in sports activities. This will certainly be of great help in doing
away with hazardous vices that will destroy the moral fiber of the
citizenry. Sports-minded citizens are those who are good-nurtured and
disciplined people that we direly need in our society.

It is therefore the paramount objective of this bill to establish a
sports academy and training center in the Province of Surigao del Norte
if only to realize the noble objectives as reflected in the above quoted
Constitution mandate.

For the foregoing reasons, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

FRAN 0 T. MATUGAS



Republic of the Philippines

BHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Queson City, Metro Manila

Fifteenth Congress
380 Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. _8525

Introduced by:
HON. FRANCISCO T. MATUGAS
1ST District, Surigao del Norte (Siargao Island)

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING THE SURIGAO DEL NORTE SPORTS ACADEMY AND TRAINING
CENTER IN SURIGAO CITY AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION |. There shall established in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte, a
sports academy to be known as the Surigao del Norte Sports Academy and
Training Center, which shall be constituted as the primary sports development
and training center for the province of Surigao del Norte and the neighboring
provinces as well.

SECTION 2. The province of Surigao del Norte, in coordination with the
Philippine Sports Commission (PSC), shall take the necessary steps to upgrade,
improve facilities, equipment and personnel and incorporate or consolidate
them into the newly created sports academy and training center. The provincial
government of Surigao del Norte, in coordination with the PSC, shall create the
necessary programs and competitions, as well as the systems by which the
facilities are maintained and managed in order to accomplish the objectives
and purpose of this Act.

SECTION 3. The construction, establishment and operation of the Surigao
del Norte Sports Academy and Training Center shall be funded by the provincial
government of Suriga del Norte, by other funds that may be available for
allocation by the district representative and by other legislators, and such funds
as may be granted by the PSC or by the Office of the President. In addition,
grants and endowments may be obtained from local or foreign sources
intended for sports development.


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SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
any newspaper of general circulation.

Approved.