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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon Ci

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 7437

Introduced by Representative
LEODY “ODIE” F. TARRIELA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Article XVI, Section 1 of the 1987 Constitution mandates the State to protect
and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels, and to take
appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.

Hinango Elementary School is currently situated in Barangay Hinango,
Municipality of Magsaysay, a Geographically Isolated and Depressed Area (GIDA)
without proper and regular transportation. The nearest schools in Hinango offering
secondary education are: 1) Magsaysay National High School, Pumaga Extension,
Brgy. Purnaga, Occidental Mindoro, which is about 20 kilometers away, and 2)
Cabugao National High School, Barangay Cabugao, Bulalacao, Oriental Mindoro.

Leamers from Barangay Hinango who wish to attend secondary education
wake up as early as about 4 o'clock in the morning to walk into the wilderness to
catch-up school in the neighboring town of Cabugao, Oriental Mindoro, and arrive
back home at about 8 o'clock in the evening, thereby exposing them to perils that
cedanger their personal safety, health, and security.

In view thereof, the opening of an integrated school in Baragay Hinango shall
provide educational and developmental opportunities to our cultural minorities of
indigenous origin in order to liberate them from cycle of illiteracy, ignorance,
poverty, fear, yeenage preganancy, teenage fatherhood, early marriage, recruitment to
insurgent organizations, and other social, economic, and environmental deprivation
that hinder their holistic development as a human being.

This bill seeks to convert Hinango Elementary School into an integrated
school in Barangay Hinango, Municipality of Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro, which
shall be known as Hinango Integrated School. This shall provide and promote
uninterrupted education to children, so they are encouraged to attend school.In this
respect, the immediate consideration and passage of this bill is earnestly sought.

HON. LHODY “ODIE” F. TARRIELA
Representative

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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 7437

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE
LEODY “ODIE” F. TARRIELA

AN ACT
CONVERTING HINANGO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN
BARANGAY HINANGO, MUNICIPALITY OF MAGSAYSAY,
OCCIDENTAL MINDORO INTO AN INTEGRATED SCHOOL
TO BE KNOWN AS HINANGO INTEGRATED SCHOOL AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. The Hinango Elementary School in Barangay Hinango,
Municipality of Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro is hereby converted into an

integrated school to be known as Hinango Integrated School.

SECTION 2. All personnel, assets, liabilities and records of the Hinango
Elementary School are hereby transferred to and absorbed by Hinango Integrated
School.

SECTION 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department’s program the operationalization of the Hinango Integrated School, the

funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 4. The Secretary of Education shall formulate the rules and

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regulations implementing the provisions of this Act within one hundred twenty (120)

days after its effectivity.

SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication

in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

APPROVED,

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