Title
Establishment of Justice Eliezer R. De Los Santos High
Law
Republic Act No. 10990
Decision Date
Mar 21, 2018
Republic Act No. 10990 establishes a national high school in Valenzuela City, to be supervised by the Department of Education and funded through the annual General Appropriations Act, with the Secretary of Education given 120 days to formulate the necessary rules and regulations for its implementation.

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.

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