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

SECTION 1. The bed capacity of Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center is hereby increased from eight hundred (800) to one thousand two hundred (1,200) beds.

SEC. 2. The amount necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act shall be included in the General Appropriations Act of the year following its enactment into law and thereafter.

SEC. 3. The Department of Health is directed to implement this Act.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,

(Sgd.) FELICIANO BELMONTE JR. Speaker of the House of Representatives

(Sgd.) FRANKLIN M. DRILON President of the Senate

Senate Bill No. 2767, which was approved by the Senate on January 25, 2016, was adopted by the House of Representatives as an amendment to House Bill No. 5276 on January 25, 2016.

(Sgd.) MARILYN B. BARUA-YAP Secretary General House of Representatives

(Sgd.) OSCAR G. YABES Secretary of the Senate

Approved: APR 26 2016

(Sgd.) BENIGNO S. AQUINO III
President of the Philippines