Republic of the Philippines 
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. _______ 
INTRODUCED BY REP. PM VARGAS 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN 
BARANGAY SANTA LUCIA, QUEZON CITY, TO BE KNOWN AS THE 
BARANGAY SANTA LUCIA, QUEZON CITY TESDA TRAINING AND 
ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Article XIV, Section 1 of the Constitution provides that “the State shall 
protect and promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and 
shall take appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.” The 
Constitution further mandates that the State establish, maintain, and 
support a complete, adequate, and integrated system of education relevant to 
the needs of the people and society. 
Access to education is the foundation of the human capital of any 
country. It shall be made inclusive and afforded to all Filipinos to enhance, 
cultivate, and formalize their skills to be utilized for their livelihood and for 
their locality’s economic growth. 
One of the major strengths of the Fifth District of Quezon City is its 
youthful and reliable working population. This human capital currently 
dominates the demographic profile of the area and are equally deserving of 
vast opportunities such as livelihood and skills and competencies trainings. 
Through a Training Center under the tutelage of the Technical 
Education Skill Development Authority (TESDA) Training, we aim to utilize 
the growing potential of the District’s youth and working population for 
economic development. 
November 24, 2022
2:35 pm
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This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills 
Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in Brgy. 
Santa Lucia, Quezon City. This measure will ensure that residents and most 
especially out-of-school youths in the area and nearby localities are provided 
access to technical and vocational education for employment. 
 
In view of the foregoing, the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly 
sought.  
 
 
 
 
REP. PM VARGAS   
 
Fifth District, Quezon City 


Republic of the Philippines 
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. _______ 
INTRODUCED BY REP. PM VARGAS 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN 
BARANGAY SANTA LUCIA, QUEZON CITY, TO BE KNOWN AS THE 
BARANGAY SANTA LUCIA, QUEZON CITY TESDA TRAINING AND 
ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
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 “Barangay Santa 
Lucia, Quezon City TESDA Training and Assessment Center Act”. 
SECTION 2. Establishment. – There is hereby established a training and 
assessment center, under the supervision of the Technical Education and 
Skills Development Authority (TESDA), to be known as the Barangay Santa 
Lucia, Quezon City TESDA Training and Assessment Center. It shall be 
located in a highly accessible area in Barangay Santa Lucia, Quezon City, 
pursuant to the purposes of this Act and to the agreement between the 
TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs). 
SECTION 3. General Mandate. – The Barangay Santa Lucia, Quezon City 
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 
Barangay Santa Lucia and the neighboring barangays in Quezon City, and 
the adjacent localities in the National Capital Region (NCR), to help them 
become productive, self-reliant, and globally competitive labor assets. 
The Center shall provide effective employment interventions through the 
training programs on relevant skills trade competencies, craftmanship, and 
entrepreneurship activities that will help hasten the development of Brgy. 
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Santa Lucia, the neighboring barangays in Quezon City, and the adjacent 
localities in the NCR into human resource and productivity hubs. 
 
The Center shall serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired 
competencies in TVET programs in Brgy. Santa Lucia, Quezon City, and 
adjacent cities in the NCR. It shall also provide teacher’s 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 and the TESDA. 
 
SECTION 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 the 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 
human resources 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, 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 Barangay Santa Lucia, and other priority 
areas in Quezon City and adjacent cities in the NCR. 
 
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 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, 
online home-based business operation, 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 skills 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 development and language proficiency 
courses in English and other languages for business process 
outsourcing (BPO) 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 Quezon City and the other cities in the NCR to enhance 
their capacities for practical livelihood, gainful employment, and 
entrepreneurial activities. 
 
SECTION 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 
satisfactorily complied with the minimum standards of quality prescribed by 
the TESDA governing the following; 
(a) Standard procedures and guidelines for the establishment and 
operation of the 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 all allocation of the budgetary 
requirement; 
(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 Qualifications Framework for 
TVET; and 
(e) Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities 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 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 a counterpart agencies or instrumentalities 
and persons, and seek such assistance as may be necessary to effectively 
implement this Act, subject to the approval of the TESDA Director General. 
 
SECTION 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. 
 
SECTION 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, 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 provision of this 
Act is declared unconstitutional or invalid, parts or provisions of this Act 
which are not affected shall continue to be in full force and effect. 
 
SECTION 10. Repealing Clause. – All laws, executive orders, presidential 
decrees, Implementing Rules and Regulations inconsistent with this Act are 
hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
 
SECTION 11. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after 
its publication in the Official Gazette or in any newspaper of general 
circulation. 
 
Approved,