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Entitled: AN ACT UPGRADING THE BATAAN PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL IN THE PROVINCE OF BATAAN INTO A LEVEL III TEACHING AND TRAINING HOSPITAL TO BE NOW KNOWN AS THE BATAAN GENERAL HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES [ SECOND REGULAR SESSION, 17TH CONGRESS ] [ 2018 ] 1/16/2018 Introduced by Senator JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO; 1/16/2018 Read on First Reading and Referred to the Committee(s) on HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHY; and FINANCE; 5/23/2018 Returned and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on HEALTH AND DEMOGRAPHY and FINANCE per Committee Report No. 376, recommending its approval, taking into consideration HBN-6521; 5/23/2018 Committee Report Calendared for Ordinary Business; 5/23/2018 Sponsor: Senator JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO; 5/23/2018 Transferred from the Calendar for Ordinary Business to the Calendar for Special Order; 5/23/2018 Omnibus Sponsorship speech of Senator JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO; 5/28/2018 Period of interpellation closed; 5/28/2018 Period of committee amendments; 5/28/2018 Period of committee amendments closed; 5/28/2018 Period of individual amendments closed; 5/28/2018 Approved on Second Reading with Amendments; 6/6/2018 Printed copies were distributed to the Senators; [ THIRD REGULAR SESSION ] 7/24/2018 Approved on Third Reading; 7/24/2018 In favor: (20) Senators JUAN EDGARDO "SONNY" M. ANGARA, PAOLO BENIGNO "BAM" AQUINO IV, MARIA LOURDES NANCY S. BINAY, FRANKLIN M. DRILON, JOSEPH VICTOR G. EJERCITO, SHERWIN T. GATCHALIAN, RICHARD J. GORDON, GREGORIO B. HONASAN II, RISA HONTIVEROS, PANFILO M. LACSON, LOREN B. LEGARDA, EMMANUEL "MANNY" D. PACQUIAO, AQUILINO KOKO III L. PIMENTEL, GRACE L. POE, RALPH G. RECTO, VICENTE C. SOTTO III, ANTONIO "SONNY" F. TRILLANES, JOEL VILLANUEVA, CYNTHIA A. VILLAR and JUAN MIGUEL F. ZUBIRI; 7/24/2018 Against: (None) ; 7/24/2018 Abstention: (None) ; 8/1/2018 Sent to the House of Representatives requesting for concurrence; 9/10/2018 House of Representatives adopted SBN-1649 as an amendment to HBN-6521 on September 10, 2018;(See: O.B. dated 9/12/2018) 9/27/2018 Letter for Speaker Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, dated September 25, 2018, transmitting nine (9) enrolled copies of SBN-1649 which was adopted as an amendment to HBN-6521, for the signature of the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives; 10/3/2018 Letter from Acting Secretary General of the House of Representatives, Mr. Dante Roberto P. Maling, dated October 2, 2018, returning eight (8) enrolled copies of the consolidated version of SBN-1649 and HBN-6521, which were signed by the Speaker and the Secretary General of the House of Representatives; 10/4/2018 Enrolled copies of SBN-1649 which was adopted as amendment to HBN-6521, sent to the Office of the President of the Philippines through PLLO for the signature and approval of His Excellency, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte; [ 2019 ] 1/16/2019 Approved and signed into law by the President of the Philippines, His Excellency, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on October 30, 2018 and became 1/16/2019 REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11107. (The legislative history/plenary deliberations is prepared by the INDEXING, MONITORING AND LIS SECTION, LEGISLATIVE BILLS AND INDEX SERVICE; The data entry on committee meetings is prepared by the Committee Affairs Bureau)
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Manila Bulletin, November 15, 2018
[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11107, October 30, 2018 ]
AN ACT UPGRADING THE BATAAN PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL IN THE PROVINCE OF BATAAN INTO A LEVEL III TEACHING AND TRAINING HOSPITAL TO BE NOW KNOWN AS THE BATAAN GENERAL HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
SECTION 1. The Bataan Provincial Hospital in the Province of Bataan is hereby upgraded into a Level III hospital with capacity as a teaching and training facility, in accordance with the standards of the Department of Health (DOH), to be known as the Bataan General Hospital and Medical Center.
The authorized bed capacity of the Bataan General Hospital and Medical center is hereby increased from three hundred fifty (350) to five hundred (500) beds, to be implemented for a period of not motre than two (2) years from the approval of this Act.
SEC. 2. The existing medical equipment and facilities, its operating funds and construction of the needed infrastructure of the Bataan General Hospital and Medical Center are hereby upgraded to conform with and be commensurate to the increase in bed capacity as provided in Section 1 hereof.
SEC. 3. The amount necessary for the upgrade, including the acquisition of additional medical equipment and facilities and the construction of needed infrastructure shall be charged against the succeeding year's appropriations of the DOH and thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for its continued operations shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.
SEC. 4. The Secretary of Health shall promulgate the necessary rules and regulations for the implementation of this Act within sixty (60) days from its effectivity.
SEC. 5. Republic Act No. 8561, upgrading the Bataan Provincial hospital, is hereby repealed. All other laws, decrees, orders, issuances, rules and regulations, and parts thereof which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly.
SEC. 6. If any provision of this Act is hel invalid or unconstitutional, other provisions not affected thereby shall continue to be in full force and effect.
SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,
(SGD.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO Speaker of the Houseof Representatives | (SGD.) VICENTE C. SOTTO III President of the Senate |
This Act was passed by the Senate of the Philippines as Senate Bill No. 1649 on July 24, 2018 and adopted by the House of Representatives as an amendment to House Bill No. 6521 on September 10, 2018.
(SGD.) DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING Acting Secretary GeneralHouse of Representatives | (SGD.) MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA Secretary of the Senate |
Approve: OCT 30 2018
(SGD.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE President of the Philippines
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