QuestionsQuestions (Republic Act No. 8037)
RA 8037 establishes a national high school in Barangay Matangad, Municipality of Gitagum, Province of Misamis Oriental, to be known as the Matangad National High School.
The high school is to be known as the Matangad National High School.
It empowers the Secretary to issue rules and regulations necessary to implement the Act.
Section 3 provides that the amount necessary to carry out the Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.
In the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law, and thereafter.
RA 8037 directs that the necessary amount be included in the General Appropriations Act; it does not specify a direct appropriation amount in the text.
Section 4 states that the Act shall take effect upon its approval.
The Act lapsed into law on June 5, 1995 without the President’s signature pursuant to Sec. 27(1), Article VI of the 1987 Constitution.
Because under the Constitution’s procedure for unsigned bills, it lapsed into law without the President’s signature.
RA 8037 requires that funding be provided through the General Appropriations Act, linking the school’s implementation to the annual national budget.
It is a special law that creates/establishes a specific public school in a particular locality and directs administrative rule-making and budget inclusion.
Implementation should rely on and align with the inclusion of necessary funds in the General Appropriations Act as mandated by Section 3.
The excerpt states it lapsed into law on June 5, 1995 without the President’s signature. Students should understand this as the constitutional mechanism for bills not signed by the President within the prescribed period.