THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR, JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The unhealthy state of our economy at present greatly burdens the society. The effect 
of our economic problems spans across almost all sectors, including the studentry. 
As tuition and school fees continue to increase in both private and public schools, 
more students find themselves struggling to meet the scheduled dates of payment 
since failure to do such would mean being disallowed by the school administrators 
from taking the mid-term or final examinations. 
To aid the students in their plight, this bill declares unlawful for any school, public or 
private, to disallow any student from taking any mid-term or final exam due to 
non-payment of tuition fees. 
Furthermore, this bill seeks to prescribe a reasonable compromise between the 
competing needs of students and the school administration. 
In view of the significance of this bill to our students and the academe, its immediate 
approval is fervently sought. 
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B. VI LAR, JR. 
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Senator 


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THIRTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR, JR. 
AN ACT 
PROHIBITING PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FROM 
DISALLOWING STUDENTS WITH DELIQUENT TUITION FEES TO 
TAKE THE MIDTERM OR FINAL EXAMINATIONS AND FOR OTHER 
PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. UnZawfuZ Practice. - It is hereby declared unlawful for any school, 
public, or private, to disallow any student form 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. 
SECTION 2. Rights of SchooZ. - 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 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. 
SECTION 3. ObZigations 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. 
SECTION 4. Implementation Guidelines. - The Department of Education shall 
promulgate the implementing guidelines necessary to enforce the objectives of this Act. 
SECTION 5. PenaZty Imposed. - Violations of the provisions of this Act shall be 
punished by the 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 
exceeding Fifty Thousand Pesos (P50,OOO.OO). 
SECTION 6. Effectivity - This act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette. 
Approved,