At the resumption of the plenary sessions Monday, January 17, senators, voting 22-0-0, passed nine bills from the House of Representatives.
The bills were sponsored by Senator Joel Villanueva, chairman of the Senate Higher, Technical and Vocational Education committee. Approved were: House Bill No. 4959 converting the Dulag Satellite Campus of the Eastern Visayas State University in Dulag, Leyte into a regular campus; HB No. 7687 converting the extension campuses of the Don Honorio Ventura State University in Pampanga into regular campuses; HB No. 6877 establishing campuses of the Cebu Technological University in the municipalities of Liloan and Borbon; HB No. 6969, establishing a regular campus of the Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology in Sto.
“The establishment of satellite and regular campuses improves the education in the provinces. This is timely legislation as we emerge from the pandemic with quality education for more Filipinos, creating better job opportunities for the graduates,” Villanueva said. Senators also passed the measures which would convert the Bulacan Agricultural State College in San Ildefonso, Bulacan and the Ilocos Sur Polytechnic State College in Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur into state universities.“This is just to thank our dear colleagues for supporting these nine measures that we passed on third and final reading. I would just put on record my sincerest thanks and gratitude to all the members our colleagues,” Villanueva said in his manifestation yesterday.
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