Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HousE BILL No. 4234

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Admittedly, the Government cannot afford to finance all the
development requirements of the Philippine educational system. While the
Government has done its best to allocate as much budget as it can to
prioritize the needs of public elementary and high schools, as well as state
universities and colleges (SUCs), the enormous budgetary demand to
enable the Philippine educational system to lead-frog and become
globally-competitive in terms of infrastructure, facilities, equipment,
library holdings and human resource capacity building cannot totally be
absorbed by the National Government.

This bill seeks to promote public-private partnerships (PPP) in
education as inspired by the existing framework provided by existing laws
relating to PPPs such as Republic Act 6957 as amended by RA 7718
(commonly known as the Build-Operate-Transfer Law) and_ its
implementing rules and regulations (IRR) in order to complement the
National Government's initiatives to improve the Philippine educational
system. Under this proposed Act, the public elementary and high schools,
as well as state universities and colleges (SUCs) are mandated to closely
work with the PPP Center and the private sector in order to identify
various opportunities for PPP to help address the pressing problems
confronting the Philippine educational system.

LPF, pra
SALVADOR B. BELARO, JR.
Representative
1-Ang Edukasyon Party List


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 4234

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
PROMOTING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVES IN THE
PHILIPPINE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the “Public-Private
Partnerships (PPP) in the Educational System Act of 2016.”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. The State recognizes the crucial role of
private and public schools in developing the most important resource of
the country: its people. Undoubtedly, the quality of Philippine education
needs to be raised to a level of excellence and global competitiveness.

SEC. 3. Scope. All public elementary and high schools as well as state
universities and colleges (SUCs).

SEC. 4, Procedure.The Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on
Higher Education (CHED), and the Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) shall work closely with private companies
and industry leaders in order to develop linkages and partnerships that
would help public schools generate funds to finance the development
requirements of public schools in order to bring the status of public
schools to a level on a par with global standards.

SEC.5. All participating private companies shall be entitled to the same
tax exemptions and benefits granted to educational institutions under the


National Internal Revenue Code in so far as their investment in the public
schools are concerned.

SEC. 6. Additional rules and regulations which will further the purpose of
this Act, including the adoption of the tax exemptions and other benefits
granted to participating private entities under existing laws on Private-
Public Partnerships may be determined or formulated by the DepEd,
CHED and TESDA in consultation with the government's Public-Private
Partnership (PPP) Center, the Department of Science and Technology
(DOST)and the Department of Information and Communications
Technology (DICT).

SEC. 7. The funds necessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its
enactment into law and thereafter

SEC. 8. Separability Clause. If any provision or part hereof is held invalid
or unconstitutional, the remainder of the law or provision not otherwise
affected shall remain valid and subsisting.

SEC. 9. Repealing Clause. All laws, orders, issuances rules and regulations
or parts thereof inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed, modified or amended accordingly.

SEC. 10. Effectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days
after its publication in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved.