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Republic of the Philippines
ATE: DEC 1 0 2020
DATE: REC. 1 0 2021

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

House Bill No. 8198

Introduced by Representative PABLO JOHN F. GARCIA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to recognize Cebu Technological University (CTU) - Balamban
Extension Campus as one of the satellite campuses of CTU, in line with the
government's mandate to provide accessible and affordable college education.

Balamban is a first-class municipality comprised of 28. barangays. where
87,177" Cebuanos are residing. The town is home to thousands of skilled workers and
is now considered the shipbuilding capital of the Philippines.

In 2009, Republic Act No. 9744 converted the Cebu State College of Science
and Technology System in Cebu City and all of its satellite campuses in the Province
of Cebu into a state university and was hence known as the Cebu Technological
University. Currently, CTU maintains its main campus in Cebu City and has nine (9)
satellite campuses located in the local government units of Argao, Barili, Carmen,
Daanbantayan, Danao, Moalboal, San Francisco, and Tuburan.

The conversion of CTU-Balamban into a satellite campus will expand its
capacity to provide quality tertiary education and increase the resources available to
ensure its operations, consistent with the constitutional mandate establishing and
maintaining a complete, adequate, and integrated system of education relevant to the
goals of national development.

In view of the foregoing, the approval of this measure is earn, ‘sought.

3rd District, Province of Cebu

* Per the 2015 Census.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

House Bill No.8198

Introduced by Representative PABLO JOHN F. GARCIA

AN ACT
CONVERTING THE BALAMBAN EXTENSION CAMPUS OF THE CEBU
TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (CTU) IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BALAMBAN,
PROVINCE OF CEBU, INTO A REGULAR CAMPUS,
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

Section 1. This Act shall be known as the “Cebu Technological University
(CTU) - Balamban Campus Act’.

Section 2. The Cebu Technological University (CTU) Balamban Extension
Campus located in the Municipality of Balamban, Province of Cebu, is hereby
converted into a satellite campus of the Cebu Technological University to be known
as the CTU-Balamban Campus.

Section 3. The CTU-Balamban Campus shall primarily provide short-term
technical-vocational education and training courses, undergraduate, and graduate
degree programs, and relevant fields of study within its competence and areas of
specialization, as the Board of Regents, hereinafter referred to as the Board, may
deem necessary to carry out its objectives, and those which respond to the human
resources development needs of the Province of Cebu and Region VII.

The CTU-Balamban Campus is also mandated to undertake research and
extension services, and production activities in support of the socio-economic
development of the province and the region, and to provide progressive leadership in
the area.

Section 4. The CTU-Balamban Campus shall be headed by Campus
Administrators who shall render full-time services and be appointed or designated by


the Board upon the recommendation of the search committee and the President of the
University. Such appointment or designation shall be subject to the guidelines,
qualifications, and standards set by the Board.

Section 5. The establishment of the CTU-Balamban Campus shall ensure that
the minimum requirements for their operation and program offerings have been
compiled with, as duly prescribed by the Commission on Higher Education.

Section 6. Alll assets, real and personnel, personnel, and records of the CTU-
Balamban Extension Campus located in the Municipality of Balamban, Province of
Cebu, as well its liabilities or obligations, are hereby transferred to the CTU. The
Positions, rights, and security of tenure of faculty members and personnel therein
employed under existing laws prior to the conversion into a regular campus shall be
respected.

All parcels of land belonging to the government occupied by the CTU-Balamban
Extension Campus are hereby transferred to the CTU, and shall be entitled under its
name: Provided, That should the campus or the University cease to exist or be
abolished or should such aforementioned parcels of land be no longer needed by the
University, the same shall revert to the local government units concerned.

Section 7. The provisions of Republic Act No. 8292, otherwise known as the
“Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997", shall form part of this Act, and the
governing charter of the University.

Section 8. All other powers, functions, privileges, responsibilities, and
limitations to state universities and their officials under existing laws shall be deemed
granted to or imposed upon the University and its officials, whenever appropriate.

Section 9. The amount necessary to carry out the initial implementation of this
Act shall be charged against the current year’s funding of the CTU-Balamban
Extension Campus provided by the Municipality of Balamban, Province of Cebu.

The Municipality of Balamban shalll provide the same assistance until such time
that the amount necessary for the continued operation and maintenance of the CTU-
Balamban Satellite Campus shall be included in the annual General Appropriations
Act.

Section 10. If, for any reason, any part or provision of this Act is dectared invalid
or unconstitutional, the remaining parts or provisions not affected shall remain in full
force and effect.



Section 11. All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, rules and
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are repealed or
modified accordingly.

Section 12. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,