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SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS, AND INDEX SERVICE

First Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, the twenty-fifth day of July, two thousand and
sixteen

35

House Bill No.

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BAI SANDRA SINSUAT A. SEMA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

On May 24, 2013, President Benigno $. Aquino III approved into law
Republic Act No. 10585, entitled “AN ACT CONVERTING THE
COTABATO CITY STATE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE IN COTABATO
CITY INTO A STATE UNIVERSITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE
COTABATO STATE UNIVERSITY AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFOR”

In a report, however, rendered by the Commission on Higher Education
(CHED) on the status of implementation of recent legislation establishing or
converting schools into state universities and colleges, the “Cotabato City State
Polytechnic College (CCSPC) might not be able to have substantial compliance
with the CHED’s requirements before the January 2016 deadline”. At which
point, the Representative of the 1* District of Maguindanao and Cotabato City
was requested to file an amendatory bill to the RA 10585 extending the deadline
for compliance of the CCSPC with the CHED’s requirements.

This amendatory bill seeks to recalibrate the period of compliance by the
school as far as the operational requirements for a university provided under Sec.


25 of RA 10585. The adjustment of the time frame of compliance is also to ensure
that the Certificate of Program Compliance (COPC) had already been issued by
the CHED; and for the College to have ample time to substantially comply with

the CHED’s requirements.

Bar SANDRA SINSUAT A. SEMA, MNSA
Representative
First District of Maguinadanao
and Cotabato City


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS

First Regular Session

Begun and held in Metro Manila, the twenty-fifth day of July, two thousand and
sixteen

95

House Bill No.

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE BAI SANDRA SINSUAT A. SEMA

AN ACT EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR COMPLIANCE WITH
THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COMMISSION ON HIGHER
EDUCATION (CHED) FOR CONVERSION INTO A STATE
UNIVERSITY, THEREBY AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO.
10585, ENTITLED: “AN ACT CONVERTING THE COTABATO
CITY STATE POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE IN COTABATO CITY
INTO A STATE UNIVERSITY TO BE KNOWN AS THE
COTABATO STATE UNIVERSITY AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR”

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled:

Section 1. Section 26 of Republic Act No. 10585 is hereby amended to
read as follows:

“Section 26. Compliance with CHED Requirements.--- Xxx
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“The institution shall retain its status prior to the effectivity of this
Act, unless in the meantime it is able to comply with the requirements
provided herein, within a period not [exceeding] LATER THAN January
1, [2016] 2022.”

Section 28. All laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, rules and
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with the provision of this Act are
hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

Section 29. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication

in two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,