AN ACT SEPARATING THE PARAÑAQUE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — DON GALO ANNEX IN BARANGAY DON GALO, CITY OF PARAÑAQUE, METRO MANILA FROM THE PARAÑAQUE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, CONVERTING IT INTO AN INDEPENDENT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS DON GALO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Don Galo National High School Act
Year:
2016
Category:
Other
Date Approved:
May 11, 2016
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This Act separates the Parañaque National High School — Don Galo Annex from the Parañaque National High School and converts it into an independent national high school known as Don Galo National High School. It also appropriates funds for its operationalization and ensures the transfer of personnel, assets, and records.Full Text
Sixteenth Congress
Third Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-seventh day of July, two thousand fifteen.
REPUBLIC ACT No. 10837
AN ACT SEPARATING THE PARAÑAQUE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL — DON GALO ANNEX IN BARANGAY DON GALO, CITY OF PARAÑAQUE, METRO MANILA FROM THE PARAÑAQUE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, CONVERTING IT INTO AN INDEPENDENT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TO BE KNOWN AS DON GALO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. The Paranaque National High School — Don Galo Annex in Barangay Don Galo, City of Parañaque, Metro Manila is hereby separated from the Parañaque National High School and converted into an independent national high school to be known as Don Galo National High School.
SECTION 2. All personnel, assets, liabilities and records of the Parañaque National High School – Don Galo Annex are hereby transferred to and absorbed by the Don Galo National High School.
SECTION 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the Department’s program the operationalization of the Don Galo National High School, the initial funding of which shall be charged against the current year’s appropriation of the Paranaque National High School — Don Galo Annex. Thereafter, the amount necessary for the continued operation of the school shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
SECTION 4. The Secretary of Education shall issue rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.
SECTION 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,
This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on February 23, 2015 and February 2, 2016, respectively.
Approved: MAY 11 2016
(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO, III
President of the Philippines
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