An Act Amending Republic Act No. 7364 by Converting the Ilocos Regional Hospital to Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center, Further Increasing its Bed Capacity to Three Hundred Beds, and Appropriating Funds Therefor
Republic Act No. 8411, enacted on November 27, 1997, converts the Ilocos Regional Hospital in San Fernando, La Union, into the Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center. This law increases the hospital's bed capacity from 200 to 300 beds to enhance its capabilities as a teaching and training facility. The necessary funding for these changes is to be included in the General Appropriations Act for the following year. The Act took effect 15 days after its publication in the Official Gazette. It lapsed into law without the President's signature, in accordance with the Constitution.
November 27, 1997 *
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8411
AN ACT AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7364 BY CONVERTING THE ILOCOS REGIONAL HOSPITAL TO ILOCOS TRAINING AND REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER, FURTHER INCREASING ITS BED CAPACITY TO THREE HUNDRED BEDS, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
SECTION 1. The Ilocos Regional Hospital in San Fernando, La Union shall be converted into a teaching and training medical center and shall thereafter be known as the Ilocos Training and Regional Medical Center.
SECTION 2. The bed capacity of said Ilocos Medical Center is hereby increased from two hundred (200) to three (300) hundred beds. cdt
SECTION 3. 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.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the Official Gazette.
* Lapsed into law on November 27, 1997 without the signature of the President in accordance with Article VI, Section 27 (1) of the Constitution.
Published in the Official Gazette, Vol. 94 No. 12 page 2117 on March 23, 1998.