Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Queson City

TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. £95

Introduced by HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY “HORI” G. HORIBATA

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
Training Center in Lupi, San Fernando, Province of Camarines Sur.

In establishing a vocational and technical skills center, we are providing windows of
‘opportunities for people under the care of our education system. The center will not only cater to the
youth sector, but to everyone willing and able to learn skills that they need in order to work locally
and abroad. Accessible and high-quality technical education and skills development centers will help

the country produce self-reliant and able workers.

This bill hopes to stimulate technical and vocational skills as an element of our economic
progress. It hopes to uplift the lives of the Filipino people by giving them chances to acquire quality
education without the economic constraints. With the proper infrastructure and sustained training.
programs available in our education system, we are able to provide opportunities for our constituents
to help themselves and make them employable.

In view of the foregoing, the approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

First District, Camarines Sur


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Queson City

TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House BiLt No._499

Introduced by HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY “HORI” G. HORIBATA.

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA)
‘TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN LUPI, SAN FERNANDO, PROVINCE OF CAMARINES SUR, TO
BE KNOWN AS THE LUPI, SAN FERNANDO 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 "Lupi, San Fernando TESDA Training and
Assessment Center Act of 2025.”

SECTION 2. Establishment. There is hereby established a Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) Training Center in @ highly accessible area in Lupi, San Fernando, Province of
Camarines Sur, under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the Lupi, San Fernando TESDA
Training Center.

SECTION 3. General Mandate. - The Lupi, San Fernando TESDA Training Center, hereinafter referred
toas the Center, shall primarily provide technicai-vocational training and skills development programs
to students and residents from low-income families and out-of-school youths, including college drop-
outs and persons with disabilities (PWDs), in the Lupi, San Fernando and the neighboring communities
in the Province of Camarines Sur, geared towards the acquisition of practical livelihood, employable
skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship.

The Center shail help train local residents to become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive
middle to high-level skilled labor force to hasten the social and economic development of these areas,
in particular, and to meet the manpower needs of both local and international labor markets, in
general.

The Center shall consider in the design of relevant technical-vocational training programs to be offered
thereat a competency assessment of the socioeconomic profile, employment conditions and
opportunities, business climate, market and industry potentials, resources available and presence of
support structures, including the literacy level and skills readiness, and the overall development needs
of the host area and adjacent communities within the operational radius of the Center established
herein. The Center shall also consider the relevant skills trade competencies, craftsmanship training
programs and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the effective employment and
development interventions required to make these oreas as human resource and economic
productivity hubs.


The Center shall also serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired competencies in
technical-vocational skills in Lupi, San Fernando and other municipalities of the Province of Camarines
Sur.

Preference in admission, however, shall be given to the most disadvantaged citizens, including PWDs,
and to the most economically depressed areas of Lupi, San Fernando, Province of Camarines Sur, within
the operational radius of the Center.

The Center shall, in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the TESDA, render
relevant teachers’ training assistance and curriculum design to the secondary schools offering
technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) track under the K to 12 Program of the DepEd in Lupi, San
Fernando and the other municipalities in the Province of Camarines Sur.

SECTION 4. Training Programs. - The Center shall offer diverse short-term certificate courses and
‘modular trainings in relevant technical-vocational skills and trades specialization to comply with
employment standards in preferred market-driven labor opportunities, but shall likewise give premium
efforts to skills specialization for local market employment requirements geared towards achieving the
development needs for a robust inclusive economy of the host area and each of the adjacent localities
‘and communities within the operational radius of the Center, in consultation with the Department of
Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Science and
Technology (DOST), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), National Economic and
Development Authority (NEDA), business-industry partners, and such other relevant agencies, both
local and international.

The Center may establish, as deemed necessary and practicable, research and technology hubs, mobile
training programs, and satellite or extension training centers in priority areas throughout Lupi, San
Fernando, within the service radius of the Center to strengthen linkages among the industry, the
‘academe, and the technology centers thereat.

To address the development and manpower needs of Lupi, San Fernando, and the other adjacent
localities of the Province of Camarines Sur, the Center shall offer the following TESDA-registered
technical-vocational training programs with competencies assessment leading to National
Certification Levels !-ll:

«. Skills training in industrial technology and hard trades such as metal and steel works, 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;

, Agriculture-related trainings and farm skills development in such areas as farming technology and
farm operations, backyard farming and home-based aquaculture and propagation innovations,
‘mechanized farm tools and equipment operations, agribusiness ond agri-trade technology and
innovations, and relevant farmers' trainings for increased productivity and entrepreneurshif

¢. Livelihood skills development courses for preferred skills employment and small-scale
entrepreneurship, including practical skills education in crafts and arts, workmanship and designing,
high-speed sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, horticulture, livestock raising and breeding, food
processing technology, home technology, culinary arts ond commercial cooking, beauty culture, and
health and wellness training;


. Basic business literacy training in financial management and marketing, practical accountancy,
bookkeeping and 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, including online home-
based business operation and use of social media business marketing;

e. Technical-vocational occupation and trades skills such as carpentry, masonry, plumbing, practical
electricity and installation, automotive servicing, electronics servicing, welding technician, personal
computer (PC) servicing, and such other relevant practical skills courses;

Jf. Computer literacy and information technology (IT-related skills, digital technology, web design,
‘animation, Photoshop/online photography, computer design, and advertising;

g. Social communication skills development, language proficiency courses in English and other
languages for business process outsourcing (call center) employment, and overseas job placement;

1h. Seminars in personality development, career counseling and job placement, work ethic and values;
and

i. Other preferred priority skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of the
Municipality of San Fernando, and relevant as well to the needs of the other areas in the Province of
Camarines Sur, to enhance their capacities for practical livelihoods, gainful employment, and
entrepreneurship skills.

SECTION 5. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. ~ The provisions of this Act notwithstanding, the
Center established herein shall become operationally effective only upon the determination and
declaration of 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 established herein, in terms of licensed faculty-trainers and
personnel, equipment, training and laboratory facilities, instructional materials, and other standard
requirements as a Center;

¢) sustainable funding source and allocation of budget requirement of the Center established herein; F
4d) assurance that the training programs offered ore fully aligned with the 4minimum 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 ASEAN and Philippine Qualifications Framework
(PQ) for technical-vocational education; and

e) compliance with such other TESDA conditions and standards, as may be necessary and applicable,
in establishing a Center.

SECTION 6. Administration. - The Center shall be headed by a Technical-Vocational Administrator,
under the supervision of the TESDA, who shail render full-time services and be responsible for the
‘administration and operation of the Center.

The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall be appointed by the TESDA Director General in
accordance with Civil Service rules and regulations and the qualification requirements for such office.


The Administrator shall enter into mutual agreements with locally-based private and public
counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons, subject to approval by the TESDA Director
General, for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement this Act.

SECTION 7. Appropriations. - The amount necessary to implement the provisions of this Act, and its
continued implementation thereofter, shall be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

The concerned LGU, in consultation with the TESDA, shall likewise set aside from any available local
revenue an amount deemed appropriate as annual counterpart fund to support the operation of the
Center established herein.

SECTION 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. ~ Within ninety (90) days ofter the approval of this
Act, the TESDA shall, in coordination with the DOLE, DTI, DOST, NEDA, Department of Budget and
Management, DILG, concerned LGUs, and such other relevant agencies and industry-business partners
of the hast locality, prepare and issue the necessary rules and regulations for the implementation of
this Act.

SECTION 9. Separability Clause. - If, for any reason, any section of this Act shall be deemed
unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof shall not be affected and shall
thereby remain in force and in effect.

SECTION 10. Repealing Clause. - All laws, executive orders, decrees, instructions, rules, and
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act are repealed or amended
‘accordingly.

SECTION 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,