RA 11037: Comprehensive National Feeding Program
Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Seventeenth Congress
Second Regular Session
Begun and held in Metro Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of July, two thousand seventeen.
[REPUBLIC ACT NO. 11037]
AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING A NATIONAL FEEDING PROGRAM FOR UNDERNOURISHED CHILDREN IN PUBLIC DAY CARE, KINDERGARTEN AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO COMBAT HUNGER AND UNDERNUTRITION AMONG FILIPINO CHILDREN AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:
Approved,
| (Sgd.) GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO Speaker of the House of Representatives |
(Sgd.) VICENTE C. SOTTO III President of the Senate |
This Act which is a consolidation of Senate Bill No. 1279 and House Bill No. 5269 was passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on May 30, 2018.
| (Sgd.) DANTE ROBERTO P. MALING Secretary General, House of Representatives |
(Sgd.) MYRA MARIE D. VILLARICA Secretary of the Senate |
Approved: June 20, 2018
(Sgd.) RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE
President of the Philippines
RESOURCES:
• [PDF] Republic Act No. 11037, June 20, 2018
PRESS RELEASES/PRESS STATEMENTS:
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01 SEP 2017: Recto: DepEd feeding budget gets boost, but DSWD’s will be put on a diet
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18 DEC 2016: Senate hikes by P1 B DSWD budget for free daycare meals
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26 NOV 2016: Recto optimistic on hiked funding to combat malnutrition
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22 NOV 2016: Just 1 in 3 ‘doctors to barrios’ slots taken, Recto bats for ‘1 town, 1 doctor’ scholarships
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26 SEP 2016: As chronic malnutrition worsens, Recto pushes for National Child Health program
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11 SEP 2016: Incompetence wasted, delayed P2.6 billion in child feeding funds last year—Recto
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01 SEP 2016: Recto scores P.8-B slash in DSWD’s child feeding budget
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21 MAR 2016: The school feeding program must not burden our teachers
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