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BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE

HOUSE BILL No,_ 966

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Throughout the Bicol Region there is a dearth of specialized educational
institution exclusively serving the needs of the physically handicapped. While some
attempts have been made by civic and religious organizations to set up some
training facilities for the deaf, and the blind, such attempts have been at best ad hoc,
irregular, and if continuing in isolated places, the facilities are inadequate.

It is therefore the intention of this bill to provide permanent and adequate
educational facilities to service the training and education required by the physically
handicapped by providing for the establishment of a specialized institution for the
physically handicapped in the Municipality of Lismanan, Province of Camarines Sur.
This school can initially serve as the institution under whose auspices the physically
handicapped can go to. As a pilot project, our educators can learn from the
experiences to be gained from the operation and conduct of this school which can
later on be utilized as a model for starting other similar schools not only in
Camarines Sur but elsewhere within the Bicol Region. It is anticipated that if the
specialized school is set up, the government may even be able to obtain or avail of
grants, donations and endowments from foundations here and abroad which may, as
part of their primary objectives, have already supported this type of educational
institution

However, unless and until this specialized school shall exist, in the
Municipality of Libmanan in Camarines Sur, the physically handicapped will
invariably be kept in the homes of their parents, perchance under tutorship of
persons, who neither have the expertise nor inclination to attend to the specific
needs of these infirm persons, and they, thereby will eventually become a social
burden; and worst of all, these disabled persons, will aggravate their sufferings by
the incursion of emotional stress by their failure to cope with their physical limitations


through lack of proper education to contend with the pressures and tensions inherent
in any society.

if properly educated however to acquire some skills, in addition to being able
to maintain their lives to meet ordinary needs of daily living, these physically
handicapped can be made into productive citizens, able to contribute to the socio-
economic needs of our country

While it is recognized that the national government has varied priorities, it is
nevertheless argued that the special requirement of citizens with physical infirmities

and abnormalities must command, in the scale of our values, a higher priority
attention than the needs of normal citizens.

In view of all the foregoing, early approval of this bill is urgently requested,

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u AYMUND} ILLAFUERTE JR.



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Queson City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 966

Introduced by HONORABLE LUIS RAYMUND F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A SPECIALIZED NATIONAL SCHOOL FOR THE
PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF LIBMANAN,
PROVINCE OF CAMARINES SUR TO BE KNOWN AS THE CAMARINES SUR
INTEGRATED SCHOOL FOR SPECIAL CHILDREN AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. There shall be established, under the Department of Education,
a specialized school providing for elementary and secondary education to the
Physically handicapped in the Municipality of Libmanan, Province of Camarines Sur
to be known as the Camarines Sur Integrated School for Special Children.

SECTION 2. The education and training to be provided in said specialized
school shall cover those who are deaf, mute or blind as well as others who may be
suffering from physical infirmities or handicaps, inborn or acquired, who may not be
able to properly cope with studies in regularly established schools because of the
special needs demanded or warranted by their infirmities or handicaps.

Accordingly, the physical structure of the school, classrooms, seating
arrangements and teaching materials, and other equipment that are deemed suitable
for the efficient and effective training and education of the physically handicapped
shall be provided in said school.

SECTION 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the
Department's program the operationalization of the Camarines Sur Integrated School
for Special Children, the funding of which shall be included in the annual General
Appropriations Act.


SECTION 4. Grants, donation or bequests of equipment, teaching and
reading materials, and other educational aids required by said school shall be
exempt from donor's tax and the same shall be considered as allowable deductions
from the gross income in the computation of the income tax of the donor, in
accordance with the provisions of the National intemal Revenue Code, as amended:
Provided, however, That such donations shall not be disposed of, transferred or sold

The School can also import duty-free economic, technical and cultural books
and/or publications upon certification of the Department of Education that such
books and/or publications are for economic, technical, vocational, scientific,
philosophical, historical or cultural purposes, in accordance with the provisions of the
Tariff and Customs Code, as amended.

SECTION 5. This Act will take immediate effect upon its approval.

Approved,