HOUSE OF REPRI

Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Constitution Hills, Quezon City 4

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BY:

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

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HOUSE BILL NO. 1432

ENTATIVES
RECEIVED

REGISTRATION UNIT
BILLS AND INCEX SERVICE

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Act seeks to exempt up to two dependents of teachers from the
payment of tuition fees in all state colleges and universities in the country, by
way of providing additional incentives so as to make the teaching profession
attractive to the country’s best and the brightest.

Now, more than ever, there is a need to upgrade the quality of education
that we offer our students. A crucial component thereof should be a parallel
effort to improve teaching instruction in the country and one of the ways to
achieve that is to attract many of the best minds in the country to join the
teaching profession.

However, the sad reality is that the present level of teachers’ salaries is
not that competitive, dissuading many of our brilliant minds from committing to
teaching or leaving it for greener pastures.

The other reality is the financial limitations of our government, and thus,
what is practicable and realistic are means which tap existing resources (state
universities and colleges) so that we could creatively make the teaching
profession as attractive as we could under the circumstances.

Je ba

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

HOUSE BILL No. 1482

Introduced by Representative Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

AN ACT
GRANTING FREE TUITION FEES TO TEACHERS’ DEPENDENTS

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 “Teachers?
Dependents Act of 2016..”

SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. The State recognizes the indispensable role of
teachers in educating our citizenry. It is thus but fitting that the State ensure that
the teaching profession attract the best and the brightest by making teachers’
compensation and benefits reasonably competitive.

SEC. 3. Alll teachers who are currently teaching in any public or private school
in the country and who has been doing so for the last Ten (10) years, and all
other teachers who in the future will satisfy said requirement shall enjoy the
benefit of having his first two (2) children exempted from the payment of
tuition fees in any state university or college in the country subject to the
respective admission requirements of said schools.

SEC. 4. The Department of Education (DepEd), Commission on Higher
Education (CHED), and the Technical Education Skills and Development


Authority (TESDA) shall jointly formulate and issue the rules and regulations
necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. 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. 6. 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. 8. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.