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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO, _442

INTRODUCED BY REP. MAXIMO, JR. Y. DALOG

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill seeks to establish a provincial office of the Commission on
Higher Education (CHED) in the province of Mountain Province, to be known
as the “Commission on Higher Education (CHED)-Mountain Province
Satellite Office.”

The capital town of Bontoc, Mountain Province where the higher
education institutions are mostly located is about 140 kilometers more or less
or more than a five (5)-hour drive away from the CHED Regional Office
located at the BSU Compound, La Trinidad, Benguet.

The establishment of a CHED Satellite Office in the province of
Mountain Province will facilitate the coordination of the Mountain Province
State Polytechnic College, the lone state college in the province, Xijen
Institute of Technology, a privately-owned college and the other eleven (11)
Technical and Vocational Institutions in the province. In addition, it will make
the services of the CHED accessible to these Higher Education Institutions
and to their students.

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

a MAXIMO, JR. Y. DALOG—— -



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO, 442

INTRODUCED BY REP. MAXIMO, JR. Y. DALOG

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PROVINCIAL OFFICE OF THE
COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE PROVINCE OF
MOUNTAIN PROVINCE TO BE KNOWN AS THE COMMISSION ON
HIGHER EDUCATION (CHED)-MOUNTAIN PROVINCE SATELLITE
OFFICE, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR;

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

Section 1. Establishment. There shall be established a satellite office
of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), to be known as the CHED-
Mountain Province Satellite Office, which shall exercise jurisdiction over said
province and shall be headed by a provincial director. The CHED-Mountain
Province Satellite Office shall be located at Bontoc, Mountain Province.

Section 2. Organization. Within sixty (60) days from the approval of
this Act, the CHED, in coordination with the Department of Budget and
Management (DBM), shall determine the organizational structure and
staffing pattern for the CHED-Mountain Province Satellite Office and submit
the same to the Secretary of the DBM for approval.

Section 3. Operationalization. The Chairperson of the CHED
shall immediately include in the CHED's program, the operationalization of
the CHED-Mountain Province Satellite Office.

Section 4. Appropriation. The amount necessary to implement
the provisions of this Act, and its continued implementation thereafter, shall
be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.


Section 5. Implementing Rules and Regulations. The CHED shall
issue the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of
this Act within sixty (60) days from its approval.

Section 6. Separability Clause. |f, for any reason, any section of
this Act shall be deemed unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or
provisions hereof shall remain in force and in effect.

Section 7. Repealing Clause. All laws, executive orders, decrees,
instructions, rules and regulations, contrary to or inconsistent with any
provisions of this Act are repealed and amended accordingly.

Section 8. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days
after its publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two newspapers of
general circulation in the Philippines.

Approved,