Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. __________ 
Introduced by: HONORABLE ARNULF BRYAN “ARNIE” B. FUENTEBELLA 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority 
(TESDA) Training Center in the Fourth Legislative District of the Province of Camarines Sur 
to be specifically located at the Municipality of Tigaon. Said Training Center shall be known 
as the Speaker Arnulfo “Noli” P. Fuentebella Training Center (TESDA-CASIFMAS Partido 
Campus).  
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reveals the unemployment rate in the 
Philippines continues to plunge to a significantly diminishing trend even before the occurrence 
of COVID-19. This situation has greatly contributed to a growing mismatch in employment 
position and educational background that have become a norm and no longer a special case. 
The relevant programs and skills trade competencies, craftmanship and entrepreneurship 
activities will certainly become an effective employment intervention in this situation. 
The establishment of TESDA Training Center in the Fourth District of Camarines Sur 
will primarily provide technical-vocational education and training (TVET) programs to students, 
local residents from low-income families, out-of-school youth, including persons with 
disabilities and indigenous peoples in the area and neighboring localities in the province in 
order to help them become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive labor assets. 
The favorable consideration therefore of this important piece of legislation will certainly 
help the residents in the Province of Camarines Sur and its environs, especially the poor, find 
a better employment alternative that will alleviate their plight. 
ARNULF BRYAN “ARNIE” B. FUENTEBELLA 
     Representative 
 Fourth District, Camarines Sur 
July 20, 2022
1:13 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. __________ 
Introduced by: HONORABLE ARNULF BRYAN “ARNIE” B. FUENTEBELLA 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY 
(TESDA) TRAINING CENTER IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF TIGAON, PROVINCE OF 
CAMARINES SUR TO BE KNOWN AS THE SPEAKER ARNULFO “NOLI” P. 
FUENTEBELLA TRAINING CENTER (TESDA-CASIFMAS PARTIDO CAMPUS), 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 “Speaker Arnulfo “Noli” P. 
Fuentebella Training Center (TESDA-CASIFMAS Partido Campus) Act.” 
SECTION 2. Establishment. – There is hereby established a Technical Education and 
Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training Center in the Municipality of Tigaon, Province 
of Camarines Sur to be known as the Speaker Arnulfo “Noli” P. Fuentebella Training Center 
(TESDA-CASIFMAS Partido Campus). It shall be established in a highly accessible location 
in the Municipality of Tigaon, Province of Camarines Sur, pursuant to the purpose of this Act 
and to the mutual agreement between the TESDA and the concerned local government units 
(LGUs). 
SECTION 3. General Mandate. – The Speaker Arnulfo “Noli” P. Fuentebella Training 
Center (TESDA-CASIFMAS Partido Campus), hereinafter referred to as the “Center”, shall 
primarily provide technical-vocational education and training (TVET) programs to students, 
local residents from lower income families, and out-of-school youths, including persons with 
disabilities and indigenous peoples, in the Province of Camarines Sur and other neighboring 
localities in the Bicol Region to help them become productive, self-reliant and globally 
competitive labor assets. 
The Center shall offer training programs on relevant skills trade competencies, 
craftmanship, and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the effective employment 
interventions that will hasten the development of the host area and the adjacent localities in 
the Province of Camarines Sur into human resource and productivity hubs. 
The Center shall provide teachers’ training and curriculum design assistance to the 
secondary schools offering the technical-vocational livelihood track under the K to 12 Program 
in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and TESDA. 
SECTION 4. Training Programs. – The Center shall offer short-term certificate 
courses and modular trainings in preferred technical-vocational skills and trade specialization. 
Toward this end, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and 
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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 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, enjoyable skills, gainful employment and 
entrepreneurship in priority areas in the Province of Camarines Sur and neighboring localities 
in the Bicol Region. 
 
The Center shall offer the following TVET programs leading to the 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, agri-business, 
agri-aqua trade technology and innovations, and relevant farmers and 
fisherfolks’ 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, 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, on-line 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 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 and language proficiency courses in English 
and other languages for business process outsourcing employment and 
overseas job placement; 
(h) Seminars on personality development, career counselling, job placement, 
and work ethic and values, and 
(i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people 
of the Province of Camarines Sur and adjacent localities in the Bicol Region 


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 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 TESDA governing the following competency assessment: 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 the Center; c) sustainable funding source and allocation of the budgetary 
requirement; d) assurance 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 South East Asian Nation (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 the 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 regulation of the Civil Service Commission and the 
qualification requirements for such office. 
 
 
The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall enter into agreement 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. 
 
 
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. Implementation Rules and Regulations. – Within ninety (90) days after 
the effectivity of this Act, the TESDA shall, in coordination with DOLE, DTI, DOST, DA, DILG, 
NEDA, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the concerned LGUs, and such 
other 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 shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof shall 
not be affected and shall remain in force and in effect. 
 
 
SECTION 10. Repealing Clause. – All laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and 
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act are hereby 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 application. 
 
 
Approved.