Academic programs and institutional functions
- Section 3 authorizes the PUP-Quezon City Campus to offer graduate degrees, undergraduate courses, and short-term technical-vocational courses.
- Section 3 requires course offerings to align with the PUP’s areas of specialization.
- Section 3 empowers the BOR to determine course availability based on the PUP’s capabilities needed to carry out University objectives.
- Section 3 requires the campus to conduct research and provide extension services within the Quezon City Campus.
- Section 3 specifically includes the campus’s role in offering graduate degrees under the PUP Open University System.
Campus administration and appointment
- Section 4 provides that the PUP-Quezon City Campus is headed by a Campus Administrator.
- Section 4 requires the Campus Administrator to render full-time service.
- Section 4 provides that the Campus Administrator is appointed or designated by the BOR.
- Section 4 requires that the BOR act upon the recommendation of the search committee and the President.
- Section 4 requires compliance with the guidelines qualification and standards set by the BOR.
Transfer of assets, records, and liabilities
- Section 6 transfers to the PUP all assets (real and personal), personnel, and records of the PUP-Quezon City Campus.
- Section 6 includes the transfer of liabilities or obligations of the PUP-Quezon City Campus to the PUP.
- Section 6 requires respect for the positions, rights, and security of tenure of faculty members and personnel employed at the PUP-Quezon City Campus under existing laws prior to integration into the PUP.
- Section 6 declares that all parcels of land belonging to the government occupied by the PUP-Quezon City Campus are the property of the PUP.
- Section 6 mandates that those parcels are entitled under the name of the PUP, subject to reversion: if the PUP ceases to exist or is abolished, or if the PUP would no longer need the parcels, they revert to the local government units (LGUs) concerned.
Governing charter, powers, and fit with law
- Section 7 provides that Republic Act No. 8292 (the “Higher Education Modernization Act of 1997”) forms an integral part of this Act and serves as the governing charter of the University.
- Section 8 provides that all powers, functions, privileges, responsibilities and limitations granted by existing laws to state universities and/or their officials are deemed granted to or imposed upon the University and/or its officials whenever appropriate.
Funding, separability, and repeal/consistency
- Section 9 requires that the amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
- Section 10 provides separability: if any part or provision of this Act is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining parts or provisions not affected remain in full force and effect.
- Section 11 repeals or modifies laws, presidential decrees, executive orders, issuances, rules and regulations that are contrary to or inconsistent with this Act.
Effectivity and publication rule
- Section 12 provides that this Act takes effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general circulation.
- Approval date is July 25, 2019.
- Act date (as enacted) is July 25, 2019, with official gazette listing at September 2, 2019 under 115 OG No. 35, 9593 (September 2, 2019).
- Section 12 sets the effectivity trigger specifically on publication, not on approval.
Name of the law and enactment history
- Section 1 names the law the “PUP-Quezon City Campus Act.”
- The Act was approved by the President on July 25, 2019.
- The House passed the Act on August 14, 2018; the Senate amended it on February 6, 2019; the House concurred in the Senate amendments on May 20, 2019.