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

SECTION 1. The Albay High School is hereby converted into a national high school, to be known as the General Comprehensive High School.  Comprehensive curriculum which includes both academic and vocational courses shall be offered.  The Secretary of Education is hereby empowered to reorganize the said school accordingly.  Upon organization of the General Comprehensive High School, the assets, liabilities, personnel, equipment and records of the Albay High School shall stand transferred the General Comprehensive High School.

SEC. 2. The sum of one hundred thousand pesos is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any funds in National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the operation and maintenance of the said school for the fiscal nineteen hundred sixty-three to nineteen hundred sixty-four.  Thereafter, the necessary sum for the operation and maintenance of the said school shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Acts.

SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved, June 22, 1963.