Rizal Law (R.A.

1425)
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Date @June 14, 2023

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Authorship
Claro Mayo Recto

Year: 1965

House Bill No. 438 (senate) & HB 5561 in the HOR by Jacobo
Gonzales

Salient Features of the Law

Need for a re-dedication to the ideals of freedom and
nationalism

Teaching Noli Me Tengere and El Filibusterismo

Mandated Function of the Educational

Institutions
To develop moral character

To develop personal discipline

To develop a civic conscience

To teach the duties of citizenship

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 Perspective in the Passage of the Rizal Bill
(House Bill 438)
IN FAVOR AGAINST

● Jose Laurel ● Claro ● Mariano Cuenco ●

NOTABLE INDIVIDUALS M. Recto ● Jacobo Francisco Rodrigo ●
Gonzales Decoroso Rosales

1.) According to
Francisco “Soc”
1.) According to Recto,
Rodrigo, teaching
Rizal could serve as
Rizal will make
model for Filipino
(Filipinos) country
youth to inculcate
and religion
civic consciousness,
conflicting. These
national dignity,
must be harmonious
personal pride and
affections like love
patriotism.
for his father and for
MAIN THESIS Furthermore, Rizal did
his mother. Let us not
not intend to teach
create conflict
religion when he wrote
between nationalism
his books 2.) According
and religion, between
to Laurel, reading Noli
the government and the
Me Tangere and El
church. 2.) Teaching
Filibusterismo enable
the Rizal subject
us to see the defects
enervates the Catholic
of the society
faith of the Filipino
nation.

May 17, 1956

Senate Bill 438 was approved by 23 senators (Sen. Briones was
absent)

House Bill 5561 was also approved by 71 representatives

Rizal Law (Republic Act 1425) was signed and approved by

President Ramon Magsaysay on June 12, 1956

Important Provisions of the Law (RA 1425)

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 Operationalization of the Law:
Through the sponsorship of Jose P. Laurel

Memorandum Order No. 247

Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4

● It shall be
obligatory on ● Nothing on
all schools, this Act shall
● Integration
college and ● The board of be construed as
of Noli Me
universities National amending or
Tangere and El
to keep in Education ( now repealing
Filibusterismo
their libraries DEPED & CHED) section 927 of
in the
adequate number shall cause the the
curricula of
of copies of translation of Administrative
all schools
the original the Noli Me Code,
whether private
and Tangere and El prohibiting
or public ●
unexpurgated Filibusterismo discussion of
Utilization of
editions of into English, religious
unexpurgated
Noli Me Tangere Tagalog and doctrines by
versions of the
and El other principal public school
novels or their
Filibusterismo Philippine teacher and
English
as well as Dialects other person
translation
Rizal’s other engage in any
works and public school
biography

➥ created directing the Secretary of Education, Culture

and Sports and the Chairman of Higher Education to fully
implement the RA 1425

Studying Rizal will serve as an inspiration for the youth

to gain insights about sense of community and to become
virtuous

Rizal Law is considered to be a landmark legislation

during the postwar Philippines

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