FIFTEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPIN!
First Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

House Bill No. __705

Introduced by Representative Rufus 8. Rodriguez and
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to expand the purpose and application of the Special
Education Fund (SEF) by amending for the purpose Section 272 of Republic
‘Act No. 1760, otherwise known as “The Local Government Code.”

Local Government Units (LGUs) have the power to create its own
sources of revenue and to levy taxes, fees, and charges subject to the
provisions of the Loca! Government Code and consistent with the basic policy
of local autonomy. Local Schoo! Boards have been established to determine
the annual supplementary budgetary needs for the operation and
maintenance of public schools within the province, city, or municipality, as the
case may be, and the supplementary local cost of meeting such needs. This
has been reflected in the form of an annual school board budget
corresponding to its shere of the proceeds of the special levy on real property
constituting the Special Education Fund.

Section 272 of the Local Goverment Code gives priority budget
allocation only to the operation and maintenance of public schools,
construction and repair of school buildings, facilities and equipment,
educational research, purchase of books and periodicals, and sports
development as determined and approved by the Local Schoo! Board.

However, there is a continuing clamor to expand the application of the
SEF as more and more LGUs post fund surplus that they believe can be used
to cover needs of the school districts, other than specified by law.

This bill addresses such concerns as it proposes to include among the
priority areas for SEF coverage the budget of the payment of electric and
water bills, payment of salaries, allowances, and other benefits of non-
teaching personnel, procurement of service vehicles for conveyance of
teachers and non-teaching personnel, establishment and maintenance of
extension classes, including the creation of teacher items for said classes,
purchase of prescribed textbooks, teaching aids, and other instructional
materials.


This bill will address the lack of reference end instructional materials at
the school districts and the barangay reading centers and would greatly help
in the literary program of the government.

In view of the foregoing, immediate approval of this bill is earnestly
urged. Pa

RUFUS B. WGUEZ

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MAXIMO B RODRIGUEZ, JR.


FIFTEENTH CONGRESS: )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES =)
First Regular Session )
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

House Bill No. _'705

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr.

EXPANDING THE PURPOSES AND APPLICATION OF THE SPECIAL
EDUCATION FUND (SEF), AMENDING FOR THE PURPOSE SECTION 272
OF REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7160, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT CODE OF 1991 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines
in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. Section 272 of Republic Act No. 7160 is hereby
amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 272. — The proceeds from the additional one percent (1%) tax
on real property accruing to the SEF shall be automatically released to the
local schoo! boards: Provided, That in case of provinces, the proceeds
shall be divided equally between the provincial and municipal school
boards: Provided, however, That the proceeds shail be allocated for the
operation and maintenance of public schools, INCLUDING THE
PAYMENT OF ELECTRIC AND WATER SILLS; construction and repair
of schoo! buildings, facilities and equipment, PAYMENT OF SALARIES,
ALLOWANGES, AND OTHER BENEFITS OF TEACHING AND NON-
TEACHING PERSONNEL, PROCUREMENT OF SERVICE VEHICLES

FOR USE IN THE TRANSPORT OF TEACHERS AND NON-TEACHING


PERSONNEL, ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENACE OF EXTENSION

CLASSES, INCLUDING THE CREATION OF TEACHER ITEMS FOR

SAID GLASSES, educational research, purchase of {books,]

PRESCRIBED TEXTBOOKS, periodicals, TEACHING AIDS, OTHER

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, and sports development as determined

and approved by the Local School Board.”

SEC. 2. All laws and decrees, rules and regulations or paris thereof
inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed or modifies accordingly.

SEC, 3. This Act shall take effect within fifteen (15) days after its
publication in two (2) newspaper of general circulation

Approved,