Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. The Sulivan High School extension in Barangay Sulivan, Municipality of Baliuag, Province of Bulacan, is hereby separated from the Mariano Ponce High School, also in the Municipality of Baliuag, and converted into an independent national high school, to be known as the Sulivan National High School.

SEC. 2. The Department of Education, Culture and Sports shall issue such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.

SEC. 3. The amount necessary for the implementation of this Act shall be charged against the current year's appropriations of the Mariano Ponce National High School – Sulivan High School Extension. Thereafter, such sums as may be necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Sulivan National High School shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Lapsed into law on June 6, 1997 without the President's signature, pursuant to Sec. 27 (1), Article VI of the Constitution.