{"id":1018,"date":"2009-08-19T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T01:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2009-08-19T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:04:25","slug":"senate-enacts-university-status-for-nit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/2009\/08\/19\/senate-enacts-university-status-for-nit\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate enacts university status of NIT"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Rodrigo S. Victoria<\/em><\/p>\n

Naval, Biliran (19 August) \u2013 The long wait is over. After several years of waiting of Biliranons and other stakeholders for the primary tertiary institution of learning in the province of Biliran to attain a university status, the Senate of the 14th Congress of the Philippines finally approved on third and final reading Senate Bill No. 2146 that would pave the way for Naval Institute of Technology (NIT) to become Naval State University (NSU).<\/p>\n

Senate Bill No. 2146 entitled or \u201cAn Act Converting the Naval Institute of Technology in the Municipality of Naval, Province of Biliran into a State University to be known as the Naval State University, Integrating therewith the Biliran National Agricultural College in the Municipality of Biliran, and Appropriating Funds Therefor\u201d was introduced by Senator Juan Miguel F. Zubiri and approved by the Senate on Third and Final reading yesterday afternoon, August 18, 2009. <\/p>\n

Senate Bill No. 2146 is sponsored by Senator Mar Roxas and co-sponsored by Senators Juan Miguel F. Zubiri and Edgardo J. Angara. <\/p>\n

House Bill No. 04414 with the same title content with Senate Bill No. 2146 was filed in the Senate during the second regular session of the 14th Congress on September 16, 2008 requesting for concurrence with Representative Glenn A. Chong as the principal author and Representatives Cynthia A. Villar, Edcel C. Lagman, Exequiel B. Javier and Jesus Crispin C. Remulla as co-authors. <\/p>\n

It was treated on First Reading and referred to the Committee(s) on Education, Arts and Culture and Finance on September 17, 2008. <\/p>\n

On July 29, 2009, SB No. 2146 was returned and submitted jointly by the Committee(s) on Education, Arts and Culture and Finance per Committee Report No. 543, recommending its approval with amendments. <\/p>\n

On August 11, 2009, the Committee Report was calendared for Ordinary Business with Senators Mar Roxas, Juan Miguel F. Zubiri and Edagrdo J. Angara as sponsors and at the same time was assigned for Consideration by Special Orders. <\/p>\n

On the same day, Senator Mar Roxas delivered his sponsorship speech, the period of interpellation was closed, the period of committee and individual amendments was done and closed. <\/p>\n

It is also during that day that it was approved on Second Reading with Amendments were all senators who were present were made as co-sponsors. <\/p>\n

On August 12, 2009, copy of Senate Bill No. 2146 were printed and distributed to the senators and on August 18, 2009 it was approved on Third Reading. <\/p>\n

Senate Bill No. 2146 is up for signature of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo after it will be submitted to the House of Representatives for adoption. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Representative Glenn A. Chong who first filed House Bill No. 04414 on June 16, 2008 in the House of Representatives of the 14th Congress of the Philippines, informed PIA about the latest news yesterday afternoon thru his mobile phone. <\/p>\n

Rep. Chong revealed that it took three months for HB No. 04414 before it was finally transmitted and received in the Senate on September 16, 2008. <\/p>\n

HB No. 14414 which substituted HB No. 01927 was approved on First Reading in the House of Representatives on July 29, 2008, approved on Second Reading on August 12, 2008 and was approved on Third and Final Reading on September 9, 2008 with House votes of 193 for Yes and 0 vote for No and Abstain. <\/p>\n

Rep Chong said that this is a significant development for the Lone Congressional District of Biliran he represented since he believed that education is a great equalizer. <\/p>\n

The young solon who is on his first term informed that education is one of his top priorities aside from health and infrastructure development. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can promise nothing to the Biliranons who are my masters except an honest public service which would redound to the progress and development of Biliran province as a whole\u201d, Rep Chong said. (PIA-Biliran) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rodrigo S. Victoria Naval, Biliran (19 August) \u2013 The long wait is over. After several years of waiting of Biliranons and other stakeholders for the primary tertiary institution of learning in the province of Biliran to attain a university status, the Senate of the 14th Congress of the Philippines finally approved on third and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[673,1516,1518,1514,1515,119,86,1517,1513],"class_list":["post-1018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-currentevents","tag-dr-editha-s-genson","tag-first-university-in-biliran","tag-hb-no-04414","tag-naval-institue-of-technology","tag-naval-university","tag-nit","tag-rep-glenn-chong","tag-senate","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biliranisland.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}