Those who are planning to let their money get them through those school papers—dissertations, theses, term papers, and other reports to acquire academic credentials—should be afraid.
“AGRI party-list Rep. Delphine Gan Lee filed House Bill 3793 or ‘The Academic Honesty Act of 2013,'” reports Dennis Carcamo on Philstar.com.
The report quoted Lee, who said that “it is imperative that such academic achievement be obtained only through the efforts of the person claiming it as person’s own, and not the work of people he or she just paid to write said materials.”
Under the bill, “any person found guilty of violating the proposed law shall be meted a penalty of imprisonment of arresto menor (one day to 30 days), or a fine of not more than PHP10,000, or both, at the discretion of the court.”
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