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April 3, 1956

Senate Bill was approved on the third reading with 23 votes in favor (Senator Briones was absent); as well as the House bill that was approved on the third reading with 71 votes in favor (6 were against, 2 abstained and 17 were absent) in the same day.

The substitute bill on the same day was amended and unanimously approved on the second reading.

The debate started and the controversy took a new though not quite unexpected from the stirred new hope for a final resolution of the issue. This came about when Senator Laurel, sensing the futility of further strife on the matter, rose to propose in his own name, an amendment by substitution.

The Committee on Education gave a report recommending approval without amendment, the discussion, also revolved on the constitutionality and the property of the measure. This battle in the state drew more public attention.

Senator Laurel was supported by a prestigious college an ardent nationalist, the formidable Senator Claro M. Recto.

The conflict reached the House of Representative, when Congressman Jacob Z. Gonzales introduced House bill No. 5561, which was an identical copy of Senate Bill No. 438

Senator Jose P. Laurel, as a Chairman of the Committee on Education, began his sponsorship of the measure. This was to mark the start of the long drawn debate that would divide the nation for 3 tense week.

Senate Bill No. 438 was supported by all but 3 of the members of the Upper House and seemed, to all appearances, a non- controversial measure

The Implematation of the RIZAL LAW

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June 12, 1956

The bill was signed into law by President Ramon Magsaysay and became Republic Act No. 1425.

Memorandom Order Number 247

Rebuplic Act no. 1425

made by former President Fidel V. Ramosdirected to the secretary of the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education, states to fully implement the RA 1425 as there had been reports that this RA 1425 isn't fully implementeted.