13TH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
S. Nb. 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR JR. 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This Bill seeks to protect graduates of courses requiring board, bar or any licensing 
examination from being compelled to take review classes in the same educational institution he 
or she graduated from. 
Many student-graduates decry certain objectionable practices by educational institutions 
offering courses requiring board, bar or any licensing examination. One of these practices is to 
compel the graduate to take review classes in the same educational institution of which he or she 
is a graduate under pain of delaying the release of transcripts or scholastic records. Considering 
the Constitutional provisions on the protection and promotion of education, it would be better to 
enhance and strengthen the same by granting these graduates the right to freely choose the 
educational institutions wherein they would take their review classes. 
It is toward this goal of strengthening and enhancing the Constitutional provisions on the 
protection and promotion of education that this Bill is being proposed. 
Approval of this Bill is recommended. 


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13TH CONGRESS OF THE 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES 
First Regular Session 
SENATE 
S. No. 
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INTRODUCED BY HON. MANUEL B. VILLAR JR. 
AN ACT PROHIBITING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS WHICH OFFER COURSES 
REQUIRING PROFESSIONAL EXAMINATIONS FROM COMPELLING THEIR 
EXAMINATIONS IN THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF WHICH HE IS A 
GRADUATE AND PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR 
GRADUATES 
TO 
TAKE 
REVIEW 
CLASSES 
AND/OR 
PRE-LICENSURE 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assem bled: 
SECTION 1. Any provision of existing laws, rules and regulations to the contrary 
notwithstanding, it shall be unlawful for any educational institution offering courses/programs 
requiring professional licensure examinations from compelling their graduates to take review 
classes and/or pre-licensure examinations or refresher courses in the educational institution of 
which the student is a graduate. 
b 
It shall also be unlawful for the said institution to withhold the transcript of scholastic record, 
diploma, certification or any essential document in support of the application for the professional 
licensure examination of the graduate if he does not take review classes and/or pre-licensure 
examinations in the educational institution of which he is a graduate. 
The provisions of the preceding paragraphs notwithstanding, only the officers and agents of the 
educational institution who have participated in or those who have perpetrated, whether solely or 
in concerthonspiracy with each other, authorized or ratified the acts prohibited herein shall be 
held criminally and/or civilly liable. 
SEC. 2. 
Any violation of this Act shall be punished with a fine of not less than Ten thousand 
pesos (P10,OOO.OO) nor more than Twenty thousand pesos (P20,OOO.OO) or imprisonment of not 


less than three (3) months nor more than one (1) year, or both such fine and imprisonment at the 
discretion of the court. 
Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, any criminal offense punished in this Act 
shall be under the jurisdiction of the Municipal or Metropolitan Trial Court. 
SEC. 3. 
The Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Technical Education Skills and 
Development Authority (TESDA) or other governmental education agency/authority shall issue 
the necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act. 
SEC. 4. 
shall be repealed or amended accordingly. 
SEC. 5. 
All laws or statutes, inconsistent with or repugnant to, the provisions of this Act 
This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
Approved,