Changing The Day of Commemoration
Being that December 30 is sandwiched between Christmas and New Year's Day, National Historical Commission chairperson Ambeth Ocampo pushed for the moving of Rizal Day from December 30 to June 19, Rizal's birth. This would allow students to participate in commemoration activities as opposed to it being held on December 30 which is in the middle of the Christmas vacation. The House of Representatives approved on its third reading a bill that would have changed it to June 19 on December 10, 2008, but was not acted in time by the Senate after the 14th Congress ended its session and was thus not enacted.
On April 29, 2011, President Benigno Aquino III officially declared June 20, 2011 a special non-working holiday in commemoration of Rizal's 150th Birthday. It is unknown, though, whether the move will be permanent.
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