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HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Representatives Francisco Datol Jr. and Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Act seeks to strengthen Republic Act 7796, otherwise known as the “Technical
Education and Skills Development (TESDA) Act of 1994”.

The TESDA Act declared the policy of the State to encourage the full participation of,
and mobilize, the industry, labor, local government units and techinical-vocational institutions
in the skills development of the country’s human resources. The merging of the National
Manpower and Youth Council (NMYC) of the Department of Labor and Employment
(DOLE). The Bureau of Technical and Vocational Education (BTVE) of the Department of
Education, Culture and Sports (DECS), and The Apprenticeship Program of the Bureau of
Local Employment (BLE) of the DOLE gave birth to TESDA. The fusion of these offices
was one of the key recommendations of the 1991 Report of the Congressional Commission
on Education, which undertook a national review of the state of Philippine education and
manpower development. It was meant to reduce overlapping in skills development activities
initiated by various public and private sector agencies, and to provide national directions for
the country's technical-vocational education and training (TVET) system. Hence, a major
thrust of TESDA is the formulation of a comprehensive development plan for middle-level
manpower based on the National Technical Education and Skills Development Plan. This
plan shall provide for a reformed industry-based training program that includes
apprenticeship, dual training system and other similar schemes.

TESDA is mandated to 1) Integrate, coordinate and monitor skills development
programs; 2) Restructure efforts to promote and develop middle-level manpower; 3)Approve
skills standards and tests; 4) Develop an accreditation system for institutions involved in
middle-level manpower development; 5)Fund programs and projects for technical education
and skills development; and 6)Assist trainers training programs.

With the rapidly changing times, especially in the field of information and
technology, coupled with the urgent need of our countrymen to be more qualified, highly
skilled and competitive in the domestic and international skilled and non-skilled labor fronts,
it cannot be denied that the current state of TESDA Technology Institutions (TTIs) and
TESDA Administered Schools (TAS) Technical Vocational Institution cannot appropriately


address these concerns due to its current state of its facilities, equipment and training staff.
Also, given the number of trainers with plantilla position is lesser than the number of
qualifications the TTIs and TAs offer. These factors sorely affect the quality of training these
centers provide, which in turn greatly impacts on the job readiness, competitiveness and
employability of its graduates.

This Act is intended to make the graduates of the program to be more job-ready and
competitive, through more modern equipment, facilities and expert trainers; thereby
increasing their chances of being employed, domestically and internationally. This will make
the TESDA Training Centers more high-quality-driven, more appropriate and relevant in
providing proper preparedness to its beneficiaries/trainees.

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HON. SALVADOR B. BELARO JR.
Representative
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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Constitution Hills, Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Third Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. e578

Introduced by Representatives Francisco Datol Jr. and Salvador B. Belaro, Jr.

TESDA MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2019

Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines
in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1.Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the “TESDA
Modernization Act of 2019”

SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Republic Act.
7796 known as “TESDA Act of 1994” needs the necessary amendment to cope
and be at par with the rapidly-changing technology all over the world.

SEC. 3. TESDA Training Centers should be provided with resources to
modernize its current facilities and equipment, as well as to upgrade the skills
and expertise of trainers in their own fields of specialization to properly equip
them to adapt to the modern technologies.

SEC. 4. If TESDA has to be relevant to the times, it should upgrade its current
course offerings based on the emerging technologies in the industries.

SEC. 5. The Technical Education Skills and Development Authority (TESDA),
shall be furthermore, tasked to amend its current policies on manning the
TESDA Training Institutions and TESDA Administered Schools to ensure that
enough and highly qualified trainers are assigned in every unit.


SEC. 6. TESDA should be ready to complement other government agencies
actively involved in construction projects with the sole object to uplift the
“Filipino poor man’s lot” by providing readily highly-skilled workers,
especially in the Government’s “Build! Build! Build!” projects.

SEC. 7. In the field of agriculture, TESDA should provide appropriate training
to farmers in the use and utilization of a more state-of-the-art “highly-
mechanized farming”.

SEC. 8. In the field of tourism, TESDA should provide appropriate training and
readiness to ordinary citizens in handling tourists by providing the necessary
education on the Filipino culture and hospitality.

SEC. 9. For senior citizens or those advanced-in-wisdom-and-experience, a
facility must be provided them by TESDA for the acquisition of skills they are
still capable of performing for them to be still useful in Philippine society; in
turn, the senior citizens should be allowed to share their knowledge in the
respective fields of specialization with TESDA’s scholars of which the latter
possesses no exposure and/or expertise.

SEC10. The foregoing exigencies long for the establishment of an Academy of
Trainors that will sufficiently answer these specific needs; hence, the necessary
enactment of the above-mentioned proposed law.

SEC 11. The funds necessary to carry out the provision of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriation Act of the year following its enactment
into law and thereafter.

SEC. 12. All laws, orders, issuances, rules and regulations or parts thereof
inconsistent with any provisions of this Act are hereby repealed, modified or
amended accordingly.

SEC. 13. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

Approved.