NINETEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PH]LIPPINES
Flrsf Regular Sessrbn
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
lntroduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez
House Bill No.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This bill was originally introduced as House Bill No. 1395 during the 15th Congress
where it was approved by the Commiftee on Higher and Technical Education and substituted
by House Bill No. 5953, approved on 2nd reading, approved on 3'd reading and was transmitted
to the Senate where it was not acted upon. lt was re-filed during the 16s Congress. lt was
approved by the House of Representatives during the 17h and 18s Congresses.
This bill seeks to create the TESDA Skills and Training and Assessment Center in the
City of Cagayan de Oro located at Barangay Camaman-an.
The convenience and availability of the training center in Cagayan de Oro City will
provide the out-of-school youths and our constituents with the opportunity to develop
themselves to be self-reliant and learn new techniques geared towards earning a livelihood.
Likewise, it provides the necessary atmosphere where inborn talents are developed into self-
reliant individuals.
The necessity for its creation in Cagayan de Oro City shall also serve the other 56
barangays in the Second District of Cagayan de Oro City. With the proper technology and
other resources available in our locality, our constituents shall be blessed with the technical
knowledge of helping themselves to sustain the worth of being a productive individual of our
society on a self-help basis and help themselves towards self-sustainability.
ln view thereof, the approval of this bill is urgently urged.
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July 1, 2022
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NTNETEENTHCONGRESS )
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES )
Flrsf Regular Sesslon 
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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
lntroduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez
AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPIIIIENT AUTHORITY
(TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSI'ENT CENTER IN BARANGAY CAMAMAN-AN,
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, TO BE KNOWN AS THE CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY TESDA
TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress
assembred.'
SECTION {. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Cagayan de Oro City TESDA
Training and Assessment Center Act'.
SEC 3. General Mandate. - The Cagayan de Oro City TESDA Training and Assessment
Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational
education and training (IVET) programs to students and local residents from low-income
families and out-of-school youths, including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples,
in Barangay Camaman-an and the rest of Cagayan de Oro City and neighboring localities in
the Province of Misamis Oriental to help them become productive, self+eliant and globally
competitive labor assets.
The Center shall offer training programs on relevant skills trade competencies,
crafismanship, and entrepreneurship ac{iviti€s needed to deliver the effective employment
interventions that will hasten the development of the host area and its adjacent localities into
human resource and productivity hubs.
The Center shall serve as TEsDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired
competencies in TVET programs in Cagayan de Oro City and its neighboring localities in the
Province of Misamis Oriental. lt shall also provide teachers' training and curriculum design
assistance to the secondary schools offering the technical-vocational livelihood (WL) track
under the K to 12 Program in coordination with the Department of Education DepEd) and the
TESDA.
SEC 4. Training Programs. - The Center shall offer short-term certificate courses and modular
trainings in prefened technical-vocational skills and trades specialization. To this end, the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and lndustry fil),
Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department
of the lnterior and Local Government (DILG), National Economic and Development Authority
House Bill No._
SEC 2. Establishment. - There is hereby established a Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in Barangay Camaman-an,
Cagayan de Oro City, under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the Cagayan de
Oro City TESDA Training and Assessment Center. lt shall be established in a highly
accessible location in Barangay Camaman-an, Cagayan de Oro City, pursuant to the purposes
of this Act and to the mutual agreement between the TESDA and the concerned local
govemment units (LGUs).
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(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 Cagayan de Oro City and neighboring localities in the
Province of Misamis Oriental.
The Center shall offer the following TVET programs with competencies assessment
leading to National Certification Levels l-lll:
(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 trainlng 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) TechnicaFvocational 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
practlcal skills courses;
(f) Computer literacy and information technology (lT)-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, job placement, and work
ethic and values; and
(i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of Cagayan
de Oro City and of the other localities in the Province of Misamis Oriental 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 operational only upon the determination and certification by the
TESDA, through the issuance of a formal recommendation and certificate of compliance, that
the Center has satisfac'torily 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;
(d1 Rssurance 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 lntegration 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-Vocalional 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 inlo 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 Director General of the TESDA 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. lmplementing Rules and Regulations. - Wthin ninety (90) days after the approval of
this Act, the TESDA shall, in coordination with the DOLE, DTl, DOST, DA, Department of
Budget and Management, DILG, NEDA, concerned LGUs, and such other relevant agencies
and industry-business partners ofthe host locality, prepare and issue the necessary rules and
regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.
SEC 9, Separability Clause. - lf, for any reason, any section or provision of this Act shall be
deemed unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof shall not be affected
and shall remain in force and effect.
SEC 10. Repealing Clause. - All laws, executive orders, decrees, instructions, rules and
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act are hereby repealed or
amended accordingly.
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,