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HOUSE: OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Quezon City

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NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 1054

Introduced by Hon. Roberto “Robbie” V. Puno

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to create the TESDA Skills and Training and
Accreditation Center in the City of Antipolo, Province of Rizal to be
known as the Antipolo City TESDA Training and Accreditation Center.

The establishment of an accessible, high quality and efficient
technical education and skills development center shall be beneficial not
only to the grade 11 and 12 students, to the out of school youth, but also to
any ordinary citizen. This bill, which is aimed to equip the citizens with
basic practical knowledge and technical expertise, is geared towards a
society that would be self-reliant, productive and more importantly
employable.

The necessity for the creation of a TESDA in Antipolo City shall
serve the sixteen (16) barangays which comprises the I*t and 2™! District in
Antipolo City as well as other neighboring municipalities since the existing
TESDA Accreditation Centers located in Binangonan, Cainta and Taytay
cannot cater for the whole province of Rizal.

During the 18% Congress, a version of this bill has been approved on
Third and Final Reading by the House Plenary and transmitted to the
Senate. However, due to time constraints, the Senate counterpart bill failed
to hurdle the second reading. Thus, this bill is refiled in the 19" Congress.
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

RO! TO “ROBBIE” V. PUNO


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 1054 -

Introduced by Hon. Roberto “Robbie” V. Puno

“AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING
AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE CITY OF ANTIPOLO,
PROVINCE OF RIZAL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE ANTIPOLO

CITY TESDA TRAINING CENTER AND ASSESSMENT
CENTER, AND APPPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR”

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the
“Antipolo City TESDA Training and Assessment Center Act”.

Sec 2. Establishment. — There is hereby established a Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training and
Assessment Center in the City of Antipolo, Province of Rizal, under the
supervision of TESDA, to be known as the Antipolo City TESDA Training
and Assessment Center. It shall be established in a highly accessible
location in the First Legislative District of Antipolo City, pursuant to the
purposes of this Act and to the mutual agreement between the TESDA and
the concemed local government units (LGUs).

Sec 3. General Mandate. — The Antipolo 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
‘Antipolo City and neighboring localities of the Province of Rizal, to help
them become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive labor assets.



The Center shall offer training programs on relevant skills trade
competencies, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship activities needed to
deliver the effective employment interventions that will hasten the
development of the host area and adjacent localities in the Province of
Rizal into human resources and productivity hubs.

The Center shall also serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment
Center for acquired competencies in TVET programs in Antipolo City and
neighboring localities in the Province of Rizal. It shall also provide
teachers’ 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
(DepEd) and the TESDA.

Sec.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 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, employable skills, gainful employment, and
entrepreneurship in priority areas in Antipolo City and adjacent localities
in the Province of Rizal.

The Center shall offer the following TVET programs with
competencies assessment leading to National Certification Levels I-III.

(a) Skills training in industry 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:

(b) Agriculture and aquaculture-related trainings and skills
development in such areas as farming technology, fishing


operations techriology, backyard farming and home-based
aquaculture and propagation innovations, mechanized farm and
fishing tools and equipment operations, 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, 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, and use of social media
business marketing;

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

(£) Computer literacy and information technology (IT)-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 counseling and job
placement, and work ethic values; and

(i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by
the people of Antipolo City and adjacent localities of the
Province of Rizal to enhance their capacities for practical
livelihood, gainful employment, and entrepreneurial activities.

Sec.5. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. — The provisions of
this Act notwithstanding, the Center shall become operationally effective
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 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, 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 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 needs of the host area and adjacent
communities served in the context of the Association of Southern Asian
Nations (ASEAN) Integration and the Philippine Qualifications
Framework (PQF) for TVET and;

(e) Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and
standards, as may be necessary and applicable in establishing a Center.

(f) Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and
standards, as may be necessary and applicable in establishing a Center.

Sec.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 qualification requirements for such
office.

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

Sec.7. Appropriations. ~The TESDA Director General shall include
in the Authority’s program the operation of the Center, the funding of
which shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Act.

The LGUs concemed, 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.

Sec.8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. — Within ninety (90)
days after the approval of this Act, the TESDA, in coordination with the
DOLE, DTI, DA, Department of Budget and Management, DILG, NEDA,
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 of the implementation of this Act.

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

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

Sec. 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,