Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Philippines

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‘SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

2473

HOUSE BILL NO.

INTRODUCED BY REP. MARCELINO “MARCY” R. TEODORO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Constitution, Article XIV, Section 1, provides that the State shall protect and
promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take
appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.

In order to prepare our nation's youth for the challenges of the future, as well as
to keep our nation competitive in a global economy, every elementary, secondary, and
tertiary school in the Philippines should be equipped with the best and most up-to-date
library resources, certified library media specialists, access to advanced technology, and
instruction on the use of library and information resources

To comply with the constitutional mandate and to meet the challenges in
education, this bill proposes to establish, within each of the Bureaus of Elementary
Education, Secondary Education and Higher Education, a Division of School Library
Media Services, that will provide information and leadership to school library media

programs and personnel nationwide

MARCELINO “MARCY” R. TEODORO.
Representative
1st District, City of Marikina


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Quezon City, Philippines

SIXTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

2473

HOUSE BILL NO.

INTRODUCED BY REP. MARCELINO “MARCY” R. TEODORO

AN ACT
TO PROVIDE FOR ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY SCHOOL
LIBRARY MEDIA RESOURCES, TECHNOLOGY ENHANCEMENT, TRAINING, AND
IMPROVEMENT

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the "Elementary, Secondary, and
Tertiary School Library Media Services Act.”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is a policy of the State to protect and promote the
right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take appropriate steps to
make such education accessible to all

SEC. 3. Definition of Terms. - As used in this Act, the term:

A. "Director" means the Director of the Division of Elementary, Secondary, and
Tertiary School Library Media Services established under this Act;

B. "Local Educational Agency" refers to a public board of education or other public
authority legally constituted within a State for either administrative control or
direction of, or to perform a service function for public elementary, secondary or
tertiary school in a province, city or municipality;

C. ‘National Educational Agency" refers to the officer or agency primarily
responsible for the national supervision of public elementary, secondary, and
tertiary schools;

D. "Secretary" refers to the Secretary of Education;

E. "Division of Secondary School Library Media Services" refers to the Division
established for the purposes of this Act under the Bureau of Elementary
Education;

F. "Division of Secondary School Library Media Services" refers to the Division
established for the purposes of this Act under the Bureau of Secondary
Education; and

G. "Division of Tertiary School Library Media Services" refers to the Division
established for the purposes of this Act under the Bureau of Higher Education.

SEC. 4. Establishment and Functions of the Division of Elementary, Secondary,
and Tertiary School Library Media Services.

A. Division. - There is established within each of the Bureaus of Elementary
Education, Secondary Education, and Higher Education, a Division of School
Library Media Services, to be administered by a Director of such Division.


B. Functions. - The Division of School Library Media Services shall:

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Provide information and leadership to elementary, secondary, and tertiary
school library media specialists, teachers, and school administrators in order
to encourage improvement of educational programs, train library personnel,
use advanced technology, and develop library resources, including
Tesources that will encourage students to acquire skills in other languages:
and

Monitor and administer the grant programs for elementary, secondary, and
tertiary school library media center resource development; elementary,
secondary, and tertiary school library media specialist and teacher
partnership grants for innovative education; and grants for uses of
technology in the classroom that are linked to the library media center.

SEC. 5. Elementary, Secondary and Tertiary School Library Media Program. -

A. Establishment of the Elementary, Secondary, and Tertiary School Library Media
Resource Development Program. - The Director shall award grants from all
allocations to provinces for the acquisition of school library media resources for
the use of students, library media specialists and teachers in public elementary,
secondary and tertiary schools.

B. Allocation to Provinces. - From the amount appropriated in each fiscal year, the
Director shall allocate to each province having an approved plan an amount
which bears the same relationships to such funds as the amount such province
received for educational purposes.

C. Provincial Plans. - In order for a province to receive an allocation of funds under
paragraph (B) for any fiscal year such province shall have in effect for such fiscal
year a provincial plan. Such plan shall —

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Designate the national educational agency as the agency responsible for the
administration and supervision of the program described in this section; and

Set forth a program under which funds paid to the province from its
allocation under paragraph (B) will be expended solely for-

a. Acquisition of schoo! library media resources, including foreign language
resources, for the use of students, school library media specialists and
teachers in elementary, secondary and tertiary schools; and

b. Administration of the provincial plan, including development and revision
of standards relating to school library media resources, except that the
amount used for administration of the provincial plan in any fiscal year
shall not exceed five per centum (5%) of the amount allocated to such
province under paragraph (B) for such fiscal year; and

¢. Set forth criteria to be used in allotting funds for school library media
resources among the local educational agencies or the province, which
allotment shall take into consideration the relative needs of the students,
school media specialists and teachers to be served.

D. Distribution of Allocation to Local Educational Agencies. -

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Distribution Rule. - From the funds allocated to a province under paragraph
(8) in each fiscal year, such province shall distribute not less than ninety five
per centum (95%) of such funds in such fiscal year to local educational
agencies within such province according to the relative enrolment of
students in public elementary, secondary and tertiary schools within the
school districts of such province, adjusted to provide higher per-pupil
allotments to local educational agencies that have the greatest number or


percentages of students whose education imposes a higher than average
cost per child, such as those students —

a. Living in areas with high concentrations of low-income families;
b. From low-income families; and
Living in sparsely populated areas.

2. Calculation of Enrollment. - The calculation of relative enrollments under
subparagraph (1) shall be made on the basis of the total number of students
enrolled in public schools in the province.

SEC. 6. Establishment of the School Library Media Specialist and Teacher
Partnerships for Instructional Innovation Program. - The Director shall award grants
to projects that —

‘A. Encourage collaboration between public “elementary, secondary, and tertiary
school library media specialists and teachers in order to develop units of
instruction that enable elementary, secondary and tertiary school students to use
a variety of information resources; and

B. Expand student's information-gathering abilities and cognitive skills of selection,
analysis, evaluation and application.

SEC. 7. Establishment of the Use of Technology in the Classroom Program. -

A. In General. - The Director shall award grants to encourage collaborative
elementary, secondary and tertiary school library media specialist and teacher
programs assigned to -

1.Expand the use of computers and computer networks in the curriculum; and

2.Enable elementary and secondary school library media centers to access
information from computerized databases.

B. Operative Agreements. -The Director may enter into cooperative agreements
with appropriate non-profit agencies and organizations in carrying out this
Section.

SEC. 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Secretary shall promulgate the
necessary rules and regulations to assure the smooth and efficient implementation of the
provisions of this Act.

SEC. 9. Construction. - Nothing in this Act shall be construed to interfere with State and
local initiative and responsibility in the conduct and support of school library media
services, the administration of school library media centers, or the selection of personnel
or library books and materials.

SEC. 10. Supplementation. - Funds provided under this Act shall be used so as to
supplement and not supplant other national or local funds available to carry out the
activities and services assisted under this Act.

SEC. 11. Appropriations. - To carry out the provisions of this Act, such sum as may be
necessary is hereby authorized to be appropriated from the National Treasury.
Thereafter, the sum necessary for the continuous operation of the program shall be
included in the annual appropriation of the Department of Education.

SEC. 12. Separability Clause. — Should any provision of this Act be declared invalid or
unconstitutional, the validity or consfitutionality of the other provisions shall not be
affected thereby.


SEC. 13. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and
regulations, and other issuances or parts thereof which are inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SEC. 14. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in
at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,