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EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Education is a right and not a privilege. However, with the enormous 
problems encountered by our country today, education remains a small 
percentage of the household's expenditure. 
University and college students, 
both in private and public schools, despite their full efforts to update the school 
fees obligation, still find extreme difficulties to meet on the scheduled dates the 
payment of such school fees. 
Despite this problem, school authorities still imposed their hard rules by 
disallowing students with arrearages in school fees from taking mid-term or final 
examinations unless delinquencies are first settled. 
This bill seeks to prescribe a reasonable compromise between the 
competing needs of students and the administration of the schools where such 
students are enrolled. 
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Introduced by Senator S. R. Osmefia Ill 
AN ACT 
PROHIBITING PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM DISALLOWING 
OR FINAL EXAMINATIONS AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
STUDENTS WITH DELINQUENT TUITION FEES TO TAKE THE MID-TERM 
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the 
Philippine in Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Unlawful Practice - It is hereby declared unlawful for any 
school, public or private, to disallow any student from taking any mid-term or final 
examination due to non-payment of tuition fees not exceeding one installment 
under the established terms of payment prescribed by the school concerned and 
approved by the Department of Education (DepEd) or the Commission on Higher 
Education. 
SEC. 2. Rights of School - Students permitted to take mid-term or final 
examinations, notwithstanding their being invoke by the school authorities 
concerned to the following: 
a. The school authorities concerned are entitled to withhold the release of 
the grades of such students until the unpaid tuition fees, plus interest 
charges, are fully paid 
b. A student, with an unpaid tuition fee, may not be admitted by the 
school authorities concerned at the next succeeding semester's 
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classes or at the next succeeding opening of a new academic year, as 
the case may be, until the prior delinquencies are fully paid. 
c. The school authorities concerned cannot be compelled to issue 
clearance to students with financial obligations to their schools, which 
remain due and unpaid. 
SEC. 3. Obligation of Students - The students and/or their parents, 
unless waived by the school authorities concerned shall be obligated to pay an 
interest for the unpaid tuition fees, an amount equivalent to not more than 
fourteen percent (14%), per annum, computed from the date of the examination 
taken until the tuition fee due and unpaid, are fully liquidated. 
SEC. 4. Implementation Guidelines - The DepEd shall promulgate the 
implementing guidelines necessary to enforce fully the objectives of this Act. 
SEC. 5. Penalty Imposed - Violations of the provisions of this Act shall 
be punished by suspension and/or cancellation of the permits of the offending 
schools and fine of not less than Twenty Thousand Pesos (P20,OOO.OO) but not 
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SEC. 6. Effectivity Clause - This Act shall take effect 15 days after its 
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Approved, 
exceeding Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,OOO.OO). 
publication in at least two (2) newspaper of general circulation.