Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

1279

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Honorable Arturo B. Robes

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Constitution mandates the State to provide free elementary and secondary
education. With the implementation of Republic Act 6655 (Free Public Secondary Education
Act), the number of students wanting to avail of this benefit has increased. But this magnanimity
‘on the part of the State becomes useless in places where there are no school buildings and
teachers to speak of, hence, the need to establish more public secondary schools.

There is an overriding need for the establishment of a national high school in Barangay
Muzon in the City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. The most populated in the City, this
Barangay recently serves as the receiving relocation site for a spillover population of
Metropolitan Manila numbering to over 4,000 families. This number drastically increased its
population to close to over 150,000, from 149,000 in 2012

The creation of such a national high school, for one, is an embodiment of the mandated
provision for basic services contemplated under Republic Act 7279 or “The Urban Development
and Housing Act’. This law provides that resettlement areas shall be provided basic services
and facilities for education. So that, while the sprit of this law is complied with via the creation of
such a national high school, it will also ease the condition of students living in this Barangay
who, in pursuit of secondary education, still crowds another existing government-run Muzon
National High Schoo! which located more than five kilometers from the said relocation site.

This bill, thus, proposes the establishment of a national high school in Barangay Muzon,
City of San Jose Del Monte, to be known as the “San Jose Del Monte Heights National High
‘School’. It is made in response to the clamor of its existing and newly-established residents to
uplift their social well-being and grant them convenient access to free and quality basic
education guaranteed them by the Constitution.

The approval of this bill is, thus, earnestly

IRQ B. ROBES


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Sixteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO._ 1279 _

Introduced by Honorable Arturo B. Robes

“AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL IN
BARANGAY MUZON, CITY OF SAN JOSE DEL MONTE,
PROVINCE OF BULACAN, TO BE KNOWN AS THE SAN JOSE DEL MONTE HEIGHTS:
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR.”

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

SECTION 1. Establishment of National High School. There shall be established,
under the supervision of the Department of Education, a national high school in the relocation
site of Barangay Muzon, City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan, to be known as the San Jose Del
Monte Heights National High School.

SECTION 2. Appropriations. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in
the Department's programs the operationalization of the San Jose Del Monte Heights National
High School, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SECTION 3. Implementation. The Secretary of Education shall issue such rules and
regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.

SECTION 4. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen days after its publication in the
Official Gazette.