LAS PIÑAS City Rep. Camille Villar urged her colleagues to pass on third and final reading the measure that will ban the no permit, no exam policy in educational institutions.

“Students should not be barred from taking exams due to their inability to pay tuition and other school fees at the time of their examinations. Hindi lang sa kolehiyo nangyayari ito ngayon kundi pati sa elementary at high school,” she said.

Villar is one of the principal authors of House Bill 7584 which seeks to allow elementary and secondary learners with unpaid tuition and other school fees to take the periodic and final examinations.

“Poverty should not be an issue to get quality education,” she said.

The measure mandates the private basic educational institutions to adopt appropriate policies to accommodate and allow learners, who, due to emergencies, force majeure, and good cause or other justifiable reasons, have unsettled financial obligations, to take the scheduled periodic exams.

The bill was approved on second reading by the House last March 15. Its counterpart measure in the Senate has been approved on third and final reading.