Program inclusion and funding
- Section 2 requires the Secretary of Education to immediately include the operationalization of Justice Eliezer R. De Los Santos High School in the Department’s program.
- Section 2 provides that the funding for the school shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
Implementing rules within deadline
- Section 3 mandates the Secretary of Education to formulate the rules and regulations implementing the Act.
- Section 3 fixes the timeframe as within one hundred twenty (120) days after the Act’s effectivity.
Effectivity and publication rule
- Section 4 provides that the Act takes effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
- Section 4 makes the publication route either the Official Gazette or a newspaper of general circulation the trigger for computing the fifteen (15) days effectivity period.
Legislative approval and dates
- The Act is approved March 21, 2018.
- Section 4 ties effectivity to publication and a subsequent fifteen (15) days period.
- The Act states that it originated in the House of Representatives and was passed by the House on August 9, 2017 and by the Senate on December 11, 2017.