Republic Act No. 11424




Seventeenth Congress Third Regular Session Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-third day of July, two thousand eighteen. REPUBLIC ACT No. 11424 An Act Separating the High School Department of Sta. Rosa Integrated School in Barangay Sta. Rosa, Municipality of Concepcion, Province of Tarlac, Converting it Into an Independent National High School to be Known as Sta. Rosa National High School and Renaming the Surviving School as Sta. Rosa Elementary School, and Appropriating Funds Therefor Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress Assembled: Section 1. The high school department of Sta. Rosa Integrated School in Barangay Sta. Rosa, Municipality of Concepcion, Province of Tarlac is hereby separated from Sta. Rosa Integrated School and converted into an independent national high school to be known as Sta. Rosa National High School. The surviving school, namely Sta. Rosa Integrated School, given that it will no longer have a high school department shall hereinafter be renamed as Sta. Rosa Elementary School. Section 2. All personnel, assets, liabilities and records of the high school department of Sta. Rosa Integrated School are hereby transferred to and absorbed by Sta. Rosa National High School. Section 3. The Secretary of Education shall immediately include in the Department’s program the operationalization of Sta. Rosa National High School, the initial funding of which shall be charged against the current year’s appropriation of the high school department of Sta. Rosa Integrated School. Thereafter, the amount necessary for the continued operation of the school shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act. Section 4. The Secretary of Education shall formulate the rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act within one hundred twenty (120) days after its effectivity. Section 5. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.1awp++i1 Approved, (Sgd) VICENTE C. SOTTO III President of the Senate (Sgd) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO Speaker of the House of Representatives This Act which originated in the House of Representatives was passed by the House of Representatives on January 29, 2019, amended by the Senate of the Philippines on June 3, 2019, and which amendments were concurred in by the House of Representatives on June 4, 2019. (Sgd) MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA Secretary of the Senate (Sgd) DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING Acting Secretary General House of Representatives (Sgd) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE President of the Philippines Approved: August 22, 2019. The Lawphil Project - Arellano Law Foundation