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Republic of the Philippines DATE: SE? 09 299
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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

House Bill No. 7621

INTRODUCED BY
HON. CHRISTOPHER V.P. DE VENECIA, HON. CRISTAL L. BAGATSING,
HON. ROSANNA “RIA” V. VERGARA, HON. FLORIDA “RIDA” P. ROBES,
HON. SHARON S. GARIN

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A FRAMEWORK FOR FUNDING THE DEVELOPMENT AND
OPERATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES
THROUGH THE ANNUAL GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT TO
COMPLEMENT AND SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF K-12 EDUCATION
IN THE COUNTRY

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Education has never been limited to the confines of a physical
classroom. Through the use of non-formal educational spaces and
institutions such as museums, our country can engage the youth in
immersive learning experiences in order to further enhance their interest and
pique their curiosity in our history, heritage, culture, arts, traditions, and way
of life.

There has been a lot of benefits attributed to museums as a form of
non-formal education. Some argue that museums play a unique role in
shaping the minds of our millions of learners by offering benefits not found in
schools. They are nonthreatening environments that appeal to a wide range
of audiences; they offer an interdisciplinary approach to learning; they have
greater flexibility than schools; and they have the capacity to bring students,
teachers, and the public together in new ways.?

According to Shari Tishman, lecturer in the Arts in Education Program
at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, “Museums are designs for
learning. Whether intentionally or not, museums embody views about what's
worth learning, and the way that artworks, objects, and historical material
are presented — from exhibitions to architecture to wall texts — embody views
about how learning happens.”

In order to complement and support the development of public k-12
education in the country and recognize the importance of museums in the
complementarity and non-formal education of our leamers, this bill seeks to

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establish a framework for the funding of the operations and development of
the National Museum of the Philippines. This is in accordance with the
mission and mandate of the Department of Education to protect and promote
the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete
basic education in the areas of formal and non-formal basic education.

For the above cited reasons, the passage of the bill is urgently sought.

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HON. CHRISTOPHER V.P. DE
VENECIA



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

House Bill No. _/521

INTRODUCED BY
HON. CHRISTOPHER V.P. DE VENECIA, HON. CRISTAL L. BAGATSING,
HON. ROSANNA “RIA” V. VERGARA, HON. FLORIDA “RIDA” P. ROBES

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A FRAMEWORK FOR FUNDING THE DEVELOPMENT AND
OPERATIONS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE PHILIPPINES
THROUGH THE ANNUAL GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT TO
COMPLEMENT AND SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF K-12 EDUCATION
IN THE COUNTRY

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 “Fund Our
Museums Act of 2020”

SECTION 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared the policy of the
State to recognize museums and similar institutions as vital alternative
learning institutions and spaces for non-formal education for the promotion
of the history, heritage, culture, and the arts of the country. In order to
support these institutions and harness their potential, appropriate funding
shall be given for the promotion, development, improvement, and
maintenance of the various museums in our country.

SECTION 3. National Museum of the Philippines Funding Framework. -
The general appropriations of the National Museum of the Philippines for each
fiscal year following the effectivity of this Act shall be sourced from the budget
of the Department of Education (DepEd) and at no less than five percent (5%)
of its total budget in order to ensure the viability and sustainability of the
operations of the National Museum of the Philippines and the entirety of its
network nationwide.

This funding framework aims to secure and accelerate the continued
development of the National Museum of the Philippines network, based on
careful planning and short, medium and long-term programming of works,
involving both operational as well as capital expenditures, within the national
capital, in each administrative region and sub-region, and in various specific
sites throughout the country to provide greater access to all the learners.

SECTION 4. Purposes of the Funding framework — The National Museum
of the Philippines, in coordination with the DepEd and the Department of


Budget and Management, shall plan and formulate an annual budget
proposal consonant with said level, and present this to the Congress for its
approval as part of the General Appropriations Act for each fiscal year, to
cover the following:

a.) Personal services to cover the remuneration and benefits of regular
personnel, which shall be upgraded and expanded in line with
prevailing laws and issuances, as well as operational exigencies as may
be proposed by the National Museum and approved by the Department
of Budget and Management.

b.) Maintenance and other operating expenses to cover the basic
requirements of the National Museum, to operate, maintain, secure and
supply, in proper order:

i. its offices and ordinary facilities, property, plant, equipment and
other assets;

ii, its special, technical and patrimonial property, plant, equipment
and other assets, as embodied particularly in its permanent
collections, permanent repositories, permanent exhibitions, and
items on long-term loan; and

iii, basic museum services to the general public, delivered onsite
and/or online.

c.) AMuseum Education, Community and Audience Development Program

d.) A Museum Infrastructure, Facilities and Sites Development Program

¢.) A Museum Collections Acquisition and Development Program.

£) A A Museum Research Program, to include an amount for research
chairs, fellowships and grants in the agency’s mandated areas of work
and competence.

g.) A Museum External Training and Skills Development Program.

SECTION 5. Capital Outlay. - In order to ensure that the agency is
empowered to expand its infrastructure program for the creation of museums,
centrally and regionally, and acquire items for the collections that can also be
spread out nation-wide, the capital outlay covering equipment, infrastructure
and the acquisition of assets, particularly immovable or movable heritage
assets, shall represent not less than thirty percent (30%) of the budget
established in each year by virtue of this Act.

SECTION 6. Repurposing the Museum Endowment Fund. - The Museum
Endowment Fund principal that comprises past remittances by PAGCOR and
PCSO, and the investment proceeds thereof, are hereby made available to the
National Museum as available funds for purposes of needed capital outlays
immediately upon the effectivity of this Act, to be fully disbursed within three
(3) years, whereupon the Museum Endowment Fund shall continue to
comprise only contributions from the private sector, to be managed in line
with the pertinent provisions of Republic Act No. 11333.

SECTION 7. Congressional oversight - The National Museum shall submit
an annual report to the President and to Congress, not later than the 30th of
March every year, following the effectivity of this act, on the effective
implementation of this act, and recommended legislation where applicable
and necessary


SECTION 8. Separability Clause. - Any portion or provision of this Act that
may be declared unconstitutional shall not have the effect of nullifying other
portions or provisions hereof as long as such remaining provisions can still
subsist and be given effect

SECTION 9. Repealing Clause. - All laws decrees, orders, issuances, rules
and regulations which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are
hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.

SECTION 10. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days
after its publication in the Official Gazette or in two (2) national newspapers
of general circulation.

Approved,