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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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January 27, 2018
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MANILA – The House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that totally bans hazing rites as part of the initiation of new members of fraternities, sororities and other organizations.
Voting 210-0, lawmakers approved House Bill 6573 that also regulates other forms of initiation rites and repeals Republic Act 8049 or the Anti-Hazing Law.
Based on the approved bill, only allowed are initiation rites that do not direct physical or psychological suffering, harm or injury to the neophyte but these must comply to certain requirements.
“Any reckless act that would endanger the physical health or safety of an individual resulting to membership in any organization are strictly prohibited,” the House Bill stated.
The bill also requires school-based fraternities, sororities and other organizations to register with proper school authorities before conducting initiation activities.
A faculty adviser shall also be present to monitor it.
Under the bill, perpetrators will be slapped with a penalty of from 20 years to life imprisonment once a hazing activity results in death, suicide, rape, sodomy, or mutilation.
The passage of the measure came almost four months following the death of University of Santo Tomas freshman law student Horacio “Atio” Castillo III allegedly due to fraternity hazing./PN
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