Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. ______ 
Introduced by Representatives Ria Christina G. Fariñas 
and Rudys Caesar G. Fariñas I 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to create the Rangay Iti Amin TESDA Training and Assessment Center 
in the Municipality of Bacarra, Province of Ilocos Norte which aims to provide technical-
vocational training programs to the constituents of the Municipality of Bacarra and its 
neighboring localities with the end goal of developing and enhancing their skills. 
In virtue of Republic Act No. 7796 or the “Technical Education and Skills 
Development Act of 1994,” TESDA is mandated to manage and supervise technical 
education and skills development in the Philippines. Since its establishment, it has offered 
relevant programs and trainings with the goal of transforming the Filipino workforce to 
self-reliant and productive citizens. It continues to equip them with life-long learning and 
skills necessary for their future endeavors. 
With the establishment of the TESDA Training and Assessment Center, its programs 
and trainings will not only be beneficial to students of Grades 11 and 12 but to any 
interested individual, such as local residents from low-income families, and out-of-school 
youths, including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, who desire to develop 
and enhance their skills for their own development and future possible labor 
opportunities. Technical and vocational education is proven to be substantial in all labor 
aspects as they are also the building blocks of economic development. Especially now 
with the rapid developments in the Province of Ilocos Norte, it is more than substantial to 
establish a TESDA Training and Assessment Center in the municipality of Bacarra that is 
par with international standards and boost the socio-economic status of its citizens.  
RIA CHRISTINA G. FARIÑAS 
 RUDYS CAESAR G. FARIÑAS 
October 5, 2021
8:32 am
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Third Regular Session 
House Bill No. ______ 
Introduced by Representatives Ria Christina G. Fariñas 
and Rudys Caesar G. Fariñas I 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) 
TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF BACARRA, PROVINCE OF 
ILOCOS NORTE, TO BE KNOWN AS RANGAY ITI AMIN TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT 
CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled:  
Section 1. Short Title – This Act shall be known as the “Rangay Iti Amin TESDA Training and 
Assessment Center Act”. 
Sec. 2. Establishment. – There is hereby established a Technical Education and Skills 
Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in the Municipality of 
Bacarra, Province of Ilocos Norte, under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the 
Rangay Iti Amin TESDA Training and Assessment Center. It shall be established in a highly 
accessible location in the aforementioned municipality, pursuant of this Act and to the 
mutual agreement between the TESDA and the officials of the Municipality of Bacarra, 
Ilocos Norte. 
Sec. 3. General Mandate. – The Rangay Iti Amin TESDA Training and Assessment Center, 
hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational 
education and training (TVET) programs to students, local residents from low-income 
families, and out-of-school youths, including persons with disabilities and indigenous 
peoples, in the Municipality of Bacarra and neighboring municipalities of the Province of 
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Ilocos Norte, to help them become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive 
labor assets. 
 
The Center shall offer training programs on relevant skills trade competencies, 
craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the effective 
employment interventions that will hasten the development of the host area and 
adjacent localities in the Province of Ilocos Norte into human resource and productive 
hubs. 
 
The Center shall also serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired 
competencies in TVET programs in the Municipality of Bacarra and its neighboring 
localities in the Province of Ilocos Norte. It shall also provide teachers’ training and 
curriculum design assistance to the secondary schools offering the technical-vocational 
livelihood (TVL) track under the K to 12 Program in coordination with the Department of 
Education (DepEd) and TESDA. 
 
Sec. 4. Training Programs. – The Center shall offer short-term certificate courses and 
modular trainings in preferred technical-vocational skills and trades specialization. To this 
end, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and 
Industry (DTI), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture 
(DA), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), National Economic and 
Development Authority (NEDA), business-industry partners, and other relevant agencies 
and instrumentalities, both local and international, shall provide the necessary assistance 
to enable the Center to develop skilled manpower to achieve a robust and inclusive 
economy in the host area and its adjacent localities. 
 
The Center may establish research and technology hubs, technology 
development farms, satellite, or extension training centers, and promote mobile training 
programs to strengthen linkages among the industry partners, the academe, and the 
Center geared towards the acquisition of practical livelihood, employable skills, gainful 
employment, and entrepreneurship in priority areas in the Municipality of Bacarra and its 
adjacent localities in the Province of Ilocos Norte. 
 
The Center shall offer the following TVET programs with competencies assessment 
leading to National Certification Levels I-III: 
a) Skills training in industrial technology and hard trades such as metal and steelwork, 
machine fabrication and operation, heavy equipment operation, automotive 


mechanic, refrigeration and air conditioning, electronics, and operation of power 
tools and equipment for both medium skills grade and industrial purposes; 
b) Agriculture and aquaculture-related trainings and skills development in such areas 
as farming technology, fishing operations technology, backyard farming and 
home-based aquaculture and propagation innovations, mechanized farm, fishing 
tools and equipment operation, agribusiness, agri-aqua trade technology and 
innovations, and relevant farmers and fisherfolk’s trainings for increased 
productivity and entrepreneurship; 
c) Livelihood skills development courses for preferred skills employment and small-
scale entrepreneurship, including practical skills education in arts and crafts, 
workmanship and design, high-speed sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, 
horticulture, livestock raising and breeding, food processing technology, home 
technology, culinary arts and commercial cooking, cosmetology, and health and 
wellness training; 
d) Basic business literacy training in financial management, marketing, practical 
accountancy, bookkeeping, office procedures, business processes and 
application procedures, including registration, licensing, documentation, business 
patent and intellectual property regulation, business financing and investment 
opportunities sourcing, import-export accreditation, online home-based business 
operation, and use of social media business marketing; 
e) Technical-vocational occupation and trades skills such as carpentry, masonry, 
plumbing, welding, practical electricity and installation, automotive servicing, 
electronics servicing, personal computer (PC) servicing, and such other relevant 
practical skills courses; 
f) Computer literacy and information technology (IT)-related skills, digital 
technology, web design, animation, photoshop/online photography, computer 
design, and advertising; 
g) Social communication skills and language proficiency courses in English and other 
languages for business process outsourcing employment and overseas job 
placement; 
h) Seminars on personality development, career counseling and job placement, and 
work ethic and values; and 


i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of 
the Municipality of Bacarra and adjacent localities of the Province of Ilocos Norte 
to enhance their capacities for practical livelihood, gainful employment, and 
entrepreneurial activities. 
 
Sec. 5. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. – The provisions of this Act notwithstanding, 
the Center shall become operationally effective only upon the determination and 
certification by the TESDA, through the issuance of a formal recommendation and 
certificate of compliance, that the Center has satisfactorily complied with the minimum 
requirements for quality standards prescribed by the TESDA governing the following 
competency assessment: 
a) Standard procedures and guidelines (SPGs) for the establishment and operation 
of a Center; 
b) Operational sustainability of the Center, in terms of licensed faculty-trainers and 
personnel, equipment, training and laboratory facilities, instructional materials, 
and other standard requirements of a Center; 
c) Sustainable funding source and allocation of the budgetary requirement; 
d) Assurance that the training programs offered are fully aligned with the minimum 
standards of competency-based quality technical-vocational skills technology 
and the needs of the host area and adjacent communities served in the context 
of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Integration and the 
Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) for TVET; and 
e) Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and standards, as may be 
necessary and applicable in establishing a Center. 
 
Sec. 6. Administration. – The Center shall be headed by a Technical-Vocational 
Administrator, under the supervision of the TESDA, who shall render full-time service and 
be responsible for its administration and operation. 
 
The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall be appointed by the TESDA Director 
General in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission 
and the qualification requirements for such office. 
 
The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall enter into agreements with locally-
based private and public counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons, subject 


to the approval of the TESDA Director General, for such assistance as may be necessary 
to effectively implement this Act. 
 
Sec. 7. Appropriations. – The TESDA Director General shall include in the Authority’s 
program the operation of the Center, the funding of which shall be included in the 
annual General Appropriations Act. 
 
The LGUs concerned, in consultation with the TESDA, shall set aside from any 
available local revenue an amount deemed appropriate as annual counterpart fund to 
support the operation of the Center herein established. 
 
Sec. 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – Within ninety (90) days after the approval 
of this Act, the TESDA shall, in coordination with the DOLE, DTI, DOST, DA, Department of 
Budget and Management (DBM), DILG, NEDA, concerned LGUs, and such other relevant 
agencies and industry-business partners of the host locality, prepare and issue the 
necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act. 
 
Sec. 9. Repealing Clause. – All provisions of existing laws, presidential decrees or 
issuances, executive orders, letters of instruction, administrative orders, rules, and 
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, 
amended, or modified accordingly. 
 
Sec. 10. Separability Clause. – If any portion of this Act is declared unconstitutional, the 
same shall not affect the validity and effectivity of the other provisions not affected 
thereby. 
 
Sec. 11. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the 
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.  
 
       
Approved,