HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
RECEIVED

: 12 JUL 2015

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

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session
RECISTIMITION UNIT

BILLS AND iNDEX VICE

HOUSE BILL NO. 1430

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Act seeks to encourage our citizenry to pursue graduate studies by
providing tax and other incentives to participating employers either in the public
or the private sector.

Continuing studies and life-long learning are crucial for our country’s
citizens to remain productive and capable to adapt to the changing technologies
and demands of our times. It is important that the government not only promote
and encourage, but must provide means and incentives to those who wish to
pursue continuing education, post-graduate and other means of life-long
learning as in the end, it is the country’s economy that shall ultimately benefit
from a highly productive and learned citizenry.

Be bem

ATTY. 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

1430
HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro Jr.

AN ACT PROMOTING GRADUATE STUDIES AND LIFE-LONG
LEARNING IN THE PHILIPPINES

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 “Graduate Studies
and Life-Long Learning Act of 2016.”

SEC. 2. Consistent with the state policy to promote continuing education and
life-long learning, the government shall provide means and incentives to bona
{fide citizens who wish to pursue post-graduate education and/or any other forms
of life-long learning and higher education training that shall provide new skills
or further enhance their existing skills, knowledge and capabilities so that they
can become or remain productive citizens of the country.

SEC. 3. All employers, whether in the private or public sectors, are mandated to
give consideration to their employees who enroll in graduate studies or any
other form of life-long leaming or higher education trainings by allowing
revised schedules and workloads without necessarily sacrificing the quality of
work so that those who wish to pursue graduate studies or higher learning shall
be encouraged to do so.


SEC. 4. All employers are likewise encouraged to provide scholarships and
incentives to their employees who wish to pursue graduate studies and other
forms of life-long learning. In the event they do so, the amount they spent for
such scholarships shall be considered a deduction from gross income. For this
purpose, the relevant provisions of the National Internal Revenue Code shall be
amended, Provided that the granting of such scholarships shall not impose any
form of mandatory return service requirement to the employee-beneficiaries.

Section 5. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED), and the Technical
Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA), in coordination with
the Bureau of Internal revenues (BIR) and the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE) shall jointly formulate and issue rules and regulations as
may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

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. 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. 9. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.