Be it enacted by the Batasang Pambansa in session assembled:

SECTION 1. The Pototan Vocational School in the Municipality of Pototan, Province of Iloilo, is converted into a college of arts and sciences to be known as the Pototan College of Arts and Sciences.

SEC. 2. The Pototan College of Arts and Sciences shall offer, in addition to its present secondary, post-secondary and vocational curricular offerings, four-year courses of Bachelor of Science in Industrial Education, Bachelor of Science in Practical Arts, Post-Secondary Trade Technical Education, Secondary Trade Education and such other courses as may be authorized by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.

SEC. 3. All existing appropriations for the Pototan Vocational High School are hereby transferred to the Pototan College of Arts and Sciences, to be disbursed in accordance with the provisions of this Act. The necessary sum for the operation and maintenance of the new college shall be provided for in subsequent General Appropriations Acts, until which time the operation of the institution as a college shall be deferred, provided that its new name shall take effect upon approval of this Act.

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

Approved, June 24, 1983.