Question & AnswerQ&A (Act No. 3797)
The main purpose of Act No. 3797 is to authorize the Bureau of Supply to purchase textbooks for private schools recognized by the Government and sell them at the same price offered to the Bureau of Education, ensuring affordability and uniformity in textbook pricing.
The Bureau of Supply is authorized and directed to purchase textbooks for private schools upon request from the directors of these private schools recognized by the Government.
The textbooks must be the same as those used in public schools.
The Bureau of Supply must sell textbooks to private schools at the same price it sells them to the Bureau of Education, plus a reasonable additional sum to cover necessary expenses incurred in the purchase and sale of the books.
The additional sum is fixed by the Bureau of Supply with the approval of the Department head concerned.
Directors must make their requisitions to the Bureau of Supply through the Commissioner of Private Schools.
The Commissioner of Private Schools ensures that private schools do not sell the textbooks to pupils at a price greater than that charged by the Bureau of Supply plus a small additional sum to cover transportation expenses.
No director or administrative officer of any private school shall sell the textbooks at a price greater than the price fixed according to this law, which is the Bureau of Supply's price plus a small additional transportation sum.
Violation of the pricing provisions is sufficient cause for the private school to be deprived of the privilege to purchase textbooks authorized under this Act.
Directors of private schools are required to deposit the full price of their textbook requisitions with the Bureau of Supply before the Purchasing Agent acts on the requisition.