Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. ____ 
Introduced by Representative 
LEODY “ODIE” F. TARRIELA 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Article II, Section 17 provides that the State shall give priority to education, 
science, and technology, arts, culture, and sports to foster patriotism and nationalism, 
accelerate social progress, and promote total human liberation and development. 
Furthermore, Section 2 of Republic Act No. 7796 provides that it is the policy of the 
State to provide relevant, accessible, high quality and efficient technical education and 
skills development in support of the development of high-quality Filipino middle-level 
manpower responsive to and in accordance with the Philippine development goals and 
priorities. 
In order to attain the State’s policy to prioritize and provide quality education 
to its citizenry, the State established Technical Education and Skills Development 
Authority (TESDA) to implement State’s formulation of continuing, coordinated, and 
fully integrated technical education and skills development policies, plans and 
programs. 
Whereas, the Municipality of Magsaysay in the Province of Occidental 
Mindoro, is considering technically skilled, educated, productive, responsible and 
empowered citizenry as catalysts and partners to develop its own industrial and 
agricultural potentials and attain sustainable development. 
In view therefore, this Bill intends to create a TESDA Training and Assessment 
Center in the Municipality of Magsaysay. This way, local residents of the municipality 
coming from low-income families, college undergraduates, or persons with disabilities 
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will be able to access vocational trainings and skills development programs, granting 
the access to practicable livelihood, enjoyable skills, gainful employment and 
entrepreneurship. 
In this respect, the immediate consideration and passage of this bill is earnestly 
sought. 
HON. LEODY “ODIE” F. TARRIELA 
Representative 
Lone District, Occidental Mindoro 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. ____ 
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE 
LEODY “ODIE” F. TARRIELA 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILL 
DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY 
TRAINING 
AND 
ASSESSMENT 
CENTER 
IN 
THE 
MUNICIPALITY 
OF 
MAGSAYSAY, PROVINCE OF OCCIDENTAL MINDORO AND 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Establishment of a Training and Assessment Center.- There is 
hereby established a training ang assessment center, under the supervision of the 
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), to be known as the 
“Magsayasay, Occidental Mindoro TESDA Training and Assessment Center”. It shall 
be located in a highly accessible area in the Municipality of Magsaysay,  Province of 
Occidental Mindoro pursuant to the purposes of this Act  and the agreement between 
TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs). 
SECTION 2. General Mandate.- The Magsaysay, Occidental Mindoro 
TESDA Training ang Assessment Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall 
primarily provide technical-vocational education training (TVET) programs to students 
and local residents from low-income families and out-of-school youths, including 
persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples to help them become productive, self-
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reliant and globally competitive labor assets.  
 
The Center shall provide effective employment interventions through training 
programs on relevant skills trade competencies, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship 
activities to help hasten the development of the host area and its adjacent localities into 
human resource and productivity hubs.  
 
The Center shall serve shall also provide technical-vocational training for 
teachers and curriculum design assistance to the secondary schools in the Province 
offering the technical-vocational livelihood track under K to 12 Program, in 
coordination with the Department of Education and the TESDA. 
 
SECTION 3.  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 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, and strengthen linkages among the industry partners, the academe, and the 
Center geared towards the acquisition by residents of practical livelihood, employable 
skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurial capabilities in priority areas in the 
Municipality of Magsaysay, Province of Occidental Mindoro and adjacent localities. 
 
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, automotive mechanical 
assembly, 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 training 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 training 
seminars for farmers and fisherfolk trainings to encourage entrepreneurship and 
thus increase their productivity; 
(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 and 


marketing, practical accountancy, bookkeeping and office procedures, business 
process 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 servicing, and 
such other relevant practical skill courses; 
(f) 
Computer literacy and information technology-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) 
Personality development, career counseling, job placement, and 
work ethic and values; and 
(i) 
Other prefered skills and trades training that may be needed by 
the people of the Municipality if Magsaysay, Province of Occidental Mindoro 
and adjacent localities to enhance their capacities for practical livelihood, 
gainful employment, and entrepreneurial activities. 
 
 
SECTION 4. Compliance with TESDA Requirements.--  The provisions of 
this Act notwithstanding, the Center shall become operational only upon the issuance 


by the TESDA of a formal recommendation and certification of compliance attesting  
that the Center has satisfactorily complied with the minimum standards of quality it has 
prescribed governing the following: (a) standard procedures and guidelines 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; (d) full alignment of the 
training programs offered with the minimum standards of competency-based quality 
technical-vocational skills technology and the needs of the host area and adjacent 
communities served within the context of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations 
(ASEAN) integration and the Philippine Qualification Framework for TVET; and (e) 
compliance with such other TESDA conditions and standards, as may be necessary and 
applicable in establishing a Center. 
 
 
SECTION 5. Administration of the Center.—The Center shall be headed by a 
Technical-Vocational Administrator who shall be, render full-time service and be 
responsible for its administration and operation, under the supervision of the TESDA. 
 
 
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 of such office. 
 
 
The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall enter into agreements with 
locally based private and public counterpart agencies,  instrumentalities or  persons, 
and seek such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement this Act, subject 


to the approval of TESDA Director General. 
 
 
SECTION 6. 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. 
 
 
SECTION 7. 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, DepEd, DILG, NEDA, the 
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. 
 
 
SECTION 9. Separability Clause.-- If, for any reason, any section or provision 
of this Act is declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions 
thereof shall not be affected and shall 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,