Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. musts

Introduced by HON. LORNA P. BAUTISTA-BANDIGAN

The Fishing Village Comprehensive National High School-Bolila Extension
(formerly Benjamin V. Bautista Special High School) has had that extension status for
eight (8) years since its establishment in AY 2010-2011. The main campus of this
school is located in Malita which is 10 kilometers away from Bolila, Itconsists of three
(3) classrooms with the school seated in a 1-hectare location. Since its opening in the
years 2010-2011, ithas catered to Grade 7 to Grade 10 with a total population of 250
students. There were feeder schools with one section per grade level and is serviced
by a teaching force of nine regular and permanent teachers including the Teacher-in-
Charge.

This Bill seeks for the establishment of Bolila National High School in the
Municipality of Malita in the Province of Davao Occidental. The aim is for those
students who have graduated from their elementary school is to pursue their
secondary education without having to go to the trouble of traveling the distance to
the main campus. This can only be expected because majority of the residents in
Bolila are subsistence farmers and small fishermen. The Bolila Extension, attached as
it were with the main campus is saddled with the problem of non-continuance in
studying secondary education because of scare resources confronting the family and
students.

When converted into Bolila National High School, the Extension will give the
opportunity to the proposed high school to act independently and maximize its
educational services, cope with the student population in the locality, show its
capability as an independent and separate school and be given equal opportunities to
exist and complete academically with other national high schools, promote functional
literacy among less fortunate students in the suburbs, and provide employment
opportunities.

Bolila National High School as being proposed for establishmentare now using
facilities donated by Vice Governor Franklin P. Bautista, specifically the four-
classrooms makeshift building and one faculty office, administration office, stock
room, Library, SSG office and clinic. Once approved, Budgetary Requirements


composed of Personnel Services, MOOE, and Capital Outlay need the allocation for its
operations.

Section 2 of Republic Act No. 9155 states “The State shall protect and promote
the right of all citizens to quality basic education and to make such education
accessible to all by providing all Filipino children a free and compulsory education in
the high school level.”

Ifonly for the mandate of the Constitution that all Filipinos must be given the
opportunity to be educated, passage of this Bill is highly recommended.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No, _5388

Introduced by: HON. LORNA P. BAUTISTA-BANDIGAN

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN BARANGAY BOLILA,
MUNICIPALITY OF MALITA, PROVINCE OF DAVAO OCCIDENTAL TO BE KNOWN
AS BOLILA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, AND APPOPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SEC. 1. There is hereby established, under the supervision of the Department of
Education, a national high school in Barangay Bolila, Municipality of Malita, Province of
Davao Occidental to be known as the Bolila National High School.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department's program the operationalization of the Bolila National High School, the
funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act

SEC. 3. Within one hundred twenty (120) days from the approval of this Act, the
Secretary of Education shall formulate the rules and regulations implementing the
provisions of this Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,