(Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law that grants a 20 percent fare discount to students in all forms of public transportation.
Under Republic Act 11314 signed on April 17 but which was shown to the media on Monday, July 15, students can avail of the discount in public utility buses, public utility jeepneys, taxis and other vehicles-for-hire, aircraft, tricycles, passenger trains and marine vessels during the period they are enrolled.
Senator Sonny Angara, who authored the bill when he was a congressman in the House of Representatives, said to avail of the discount, the student should present a valid school ID or his or her current validated enrolment forms.
Angara said excluded from coverage of the law are those enrolled in dancing or driving schools, short-term courses of seminar type and post-graduate studies such as those taking up medicine, law, masters and doctorate degrees.
