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HOUSE BILL No. _ 3133_ Wo INDEX?

Introduced by REPRESENTATIVES LANI MERCADO-REVILLA,
and BRYAN B. REVILLA

AN ACT
SEPARATING THE BACOOR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL-TABING DAGAT
ANNEX IN BARANGAY TABING DAGAT, BACOOR CITY, CAVITE FROM THE
BACOOR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL-MOLINO MAIN CAMPUS, CONVERTING IT
INTO AN INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOL WITH FISCAL AUTONOMY
(IMPLEMENTING UNIT) AND RENAMING IT TO PADRE MARIANO GOMES
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Bacoor National High School — Tabing Dagat Annex (BNHS-TDA) is a Junior
High School located at 3,411 sq.m. reclaimed area along the bay of Barangay Tabing
Dagat, Bacoor City, Cavite. It was established as Bacoor Municipal High School in
1972 through Sangguniang Bayan Ordinansa Bilang 89. Batas Pambansa Bilang
582 converted the school from Bacoor Municipal High School to Bacoor National
High School on July 26, 1982. It was the BNHS Main Office until Sangguniang
Bayan Resolution Bilang 39, series of 2012 was passed by the City of Bacoor
converting the BNHS-Molino Annex to be the BNHS Main Campus. This was
approved by the then Department of Education, Culture and Sports Regional Office
(RO-IVA) on August 17, 2012.

The City Government of Bacoor, under the leadership of this representation
as the then City Mayor, successfully acquired title to the school site of BNHS-TDA
through Republic Act No. 10023 or The Free Patent Act 2010. Subsequently, the
Local School Board approved the issuance by the City of a deed of usufruct for 50

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years in favor of DepED for the free use and fruits of the entire 3,406 sq.m. property,
under Original Certificate of Title No. 2022000005, subject to approval of the
Sangguniang Panlungsod.

The Department of Education (DepED) issued a policy under DepEd Order
No. 40, series of 2014 that it will no longer establish new school annexes and it shall
treat all requests for the establishment of new school anexes as a request for
establishment of new schools. In short, DepED is more inclined to the independent
existence of national public school sites in order that they can have fiscal and
administrative autonomy needed for more efficient and effective delivery of its
services to the leamers. Separation has been defined by D.O.No. 40,s.2014 as the
process of detaching an existing school annex from its mother school to become an
independent school or an implementing unit with fiscal autonomy.

The Schools Division Superintendent of DepED Bacoor recommended to the
City School Board the urgent need to separate BNHS-TDA from BNHS-Molino main
located in District 2 of the City, in order that the high school in Barangay Tabing
Dagat, District 1 of Bacoor may be allowed to have its own plantilla of positions
under DepED, and their very own budget.

This bill also seeks to rename the BNHS-TD, after its conversion into a
regular public high school, to PADRE MARIANO GOMES NATIONAL HIGH
SCHOOL (PMGNHS). This proposed name has historical and cultural significance
and the name will have a very positive implication to national pride and patriotism.

Padre Mariano Gomes, one of the three martyr priests composing the popular
acronym GOMBURZA, was the very first parish priest of the St. Michael Church in
Poblacion of Bacoor which is very near the BHNS-TDA school site. The priests
Mariano Gomes, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora are the three martyr priests who
were executed by the Spanish colonial authorities at the Luneta Park on February
17, 1872. Their execution profoundly influenced our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal who
dedicated his novel E/ Filibusterismo to the memory of the GOMBURZA.


The renaming of BNHS-TDA to Padre Mariano Gomes NHS is a fitting tribute
to his legacy of patriotism and fear of God which core values are expected to inspire
the Bacoorefio pupils who will be formed and who will graduate from PMGNHS.

This bill is an integrated version of House Bill Nos. 3095 and 8084 filed in the
18th Congress by Congressman Strike B. Revilla which were pending in the
Committee on Basic Education and Culture.

This bill is supported by the City government as shown in Sangguniang
Panlungsod Ordinance No. CO 8-2015, Bacoor Public Schoo! Reconstitution
Ordinance, and also more recently under City Resolution No. CR 2020-284.

Considering that BNHS-TD or the would be Padre Mariano Gomes NHS is
located within the integrated coastal development zone of the City of Bacoor, such
as the ongoing Bacoor Diversion road project, the Bacoor Reclamation and
Development Project and the Museo De Bacoor Project, it is very timely that the
school become independent and allowed to progress and attain full development and
preparedness, which is at par with the progress of its surrounding settlements.

This year 2022 marked the 150th anniversary of the martyrdom of
GOMBURZA. Thus, the immediate passage of this measure is earnestly sought.

REP,/LANI MERCADO-REVILLA
Representative

24 District of Cavite

NB. REVILLA
Representative
AGIMAT Partylist



NINETEENTH CONGRESS OF THE )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
First Regular Session )

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

HOUSE BILL No. _ 3133

Introduced by REPRESENTATIVES LANI MERCADO-REVILLA,
and BRYAN B. REVILLA

AN ACT
SEPARATING THE BACOOR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL - TABING DAGAT
ANNEX IN BARANGAY TABING DAGAT, BACOOR CITY, CAVITE FROM THE
BACOOR NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL - MOLINO MAIN CAMPUS, CONVERTING
'T INTO AN INDEPENDENT HIGH SCHOOL WITH FISCAL AUTONOMY
(IMPLEMENTING UNIT), AND RENAMING IT TO PADRE MARIANO GOMES
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

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

Section 1. The Bacoor National High School - Tabing Dagat Annex is hereby
separated from Bacoor National High School - Molino main, and converted into an
independent public secondary school and an implementing unit of the Department of
Education (DepED) in the City of Bacoor.

Section 2. The Bacoor National High School - Tabing Dagat shall henceforth
be known as the PADRE MARIANO GOMES NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
(PMGNHS), located in Barangay Tabing Dagat, City of Bacoor, Province of Cavite.

Sec. 3. Alll properties, funds, personnel, assets, liabilities, and records of
BNHS-Tabing Dagat Annex shall be transferred effectively to the name and custody
of Padre Mariano Gomes NHS. This process of turnover shall be led by the School
Head and supervised by Schools Division Superintendent (SDS) of DepED Bacoor.


Sec. 4. The DepED Bacoor SDS, through the research and planning unit shall
assist the PMGNHS administrative team in their evaluation of staffing complement
and position requirements in order to determine the required number or teaching and
non-teaching positions, and in their planning on the budgetary requirements needed
to fully establish the PMGNHS as an independent implementing unit of DepED.
These shall be forward to the DepED Central Office and submitted to the DepED
Secretary for funding and assistance.

Sec. 5. Appropriations. - The amount necessary for the full implementation of
this Act shall be charged against the current year's appropriations of the DepED, and
in the Special Education Fund (SEF) of the City School Board as applicable.
Thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for the implementation of this Act shall
be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

Sec. 6. Implementing Rules and Regulations. — Within sixty (60) days from the
effectivity of this Act, the DepED Secretary shall promulgate the necessary rules and
regulations for the full implementation of this Act.

Sec. 7. Separability Clause. — If any provision, section, or part of this Act shall
be declared unconstitutional or invalid, such decision shall not affect, invalidate, or
impair the other provisions, sections or parts hereof.

Sec. 8. Repealing Clause. ~ All other laws, rules and regulations, orders,
circulars, or issuances, or parts thereof, which are inconsistent with the provisions of

this Act are hereby repealed, modified or amended accordingly.

Sec. 9. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
Publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,