Be it enacted by the Batasang Pambansa in session assembled:

SECTION 1. Rizal Municipal High School situated in the Municipality of Rizal, Province of Occidental Mindoro, is hereby converted into a national high school to be known as Rizal National High School.

SEC. 2. The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports is hereby directed to take steps as are necessary for the conversion, operation and immediate implementation of this Act.

SEC. 3. The amount of one hundred thousand pesos for the operation of the school shall be funded out of the appropriations authorized by Batas Pambansa Blg. 230 for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports intended for new national high schools and an additional amount corresponding to fifty percent of its share in the budgetary aid actually paid to it before such conversion shall be released for its operation from the national assistance fund to local schools. Thereafter, such sum as may be necessary for its operation and maintenance shall be provided in the annual General Appropriations Act.

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

Approved, June 24, 1983.