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HOUSE BILLNO. 3924

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“AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF BALAYAN, PROVINCE OF BATANGAS, TO BE KNOWN AS THE BALAYAN
TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE”

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to create the TESDA Skills Training and Assessment Center in the
Municipality of Balayan, Province of Batangas to be known as the Balayan TESDA Training
Center.

‘The Municipality of Balayan is situated in the central part of Western Batangas.
Strategically located, it can serve asa hub for education, training and manpower development
needs of the eight (8) towns comprising the First District of Batangas. Its proximity to the fast-
growing agro-industrial towns of Calaca, Lemery and Nasugbu would be ideal for youths in
these towns to access quality and industry-specific skills and competencies through the
establishment of a TESDA Skills and Training and Assessment Center. Given also the proximity
of industries within which trainees can undergo vocational and technical apprenticeship and
on-the-job training, the establishment of this vital center will boost the development efforts
of the First District of Batangas.

In view of the foregoing premises, approval of this measure is earnestly sought.

EG HAIN

Representative
First District of Batangas


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

NINETEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House BILLNO. 3924

Introduced by Representative ERIC R. BUHAIN

“AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF BALAYAN, PROVINCE OF BATANGAS, TO BE KNOWN AS THE BALAYAN
‘TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE”

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 “Balayan TESDA Training
Center and Assessment Center Act”.

SECTION 2. _ Establishment. - There is hereby established a Technical Education and
Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in a highly accessible
area in the Municipality of Balayan, Province of Batangas, under the supervision of the TESDA,
to be known as the Balayan TESDA Training and Assessment Center.

SECTION 3. General Mandate. - The Balayan TESDA Training and Assessment
Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide relevant and quality
technical-vocational education and training (TVET) and skills development program to
students and residents from low-income families and out-of-school youths, including college
dropouts and persons with disabilities (PWDs), in Balayan and the neighboring communities
in the Province of Batangas, geared towards the acquisition of practical livelihood,
employable skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship.

The Center shall help train local residents to become productive, self-reliant and
globally competitive middle to high-level skilled labor force to hasten the social and economic
development of these areas, in particular, and to meet the manpower needs of both local and
international labor markets, in general.


The Center shall consider in the design of relevant technical vocational training
programs to be offered thereat a competency assessment of the socio economic profile,
employment conditions and opportunities, business climate, market and industry potentials,
resources available and presence of support structures, including the literacy level and skills
readiness, and overall development needs of the host area and adjacent communities within
the operational radius of the Center established herein. The Center shall also consider the
relevant skills trade competencies, craftmanship training programs, and entrepreneurship
activities needed to deliver the effective employment and development interventions
required to make these areas as human resource and productivity hubs.

The Center shall also serve as a TESDA-accredited assessment center for acquired
competencies in technical-vocational skills in Balayan and other municipalities in the Province
of Batangas.

Preference in admission, however, shall be given to the most disadvantaged citizens,
including PWDs, and to the most economically depressed communities of the Municipality of
Balayan, including near and adjacent communities in the Province of Batangas, within the
operational radius of the Center.

The Center shall, in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the
TESDA, render relevant teachers’ training assistance and curriculum design to the secondary
schools offering technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) track under the K to 12 Program of the
DepEd in Balayan and the other municipalities in the Province of Batangas.

SECTION 4. Training Programs. — The Center shall offer diverse short-term
certificate courses and modular trainings in relevant technical-vocational skills and trades
specialization to comply with employment standards in preferred market-driven labor
opportunities, but shall likewise give premium efforts to skills specialization for local market
employment requirements geared towards achieving the development of a robust inclusive
economy within the host area and each of the adjacent localities and communities within the
operational radius of the Center, in consultation with the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Science and
Technology (DOST), Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), National
Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), business-industry partners, and such other
relevant agencies, both local and international.

The Center may establish, as deemed necessary and practicable, research and
technology hubs, mobile training programs, and satellite or extension training centers in
priority areas throughout Balayan within the service radius of the Center to strengthen
linkages among the industry, the academe and the technology programs thereat.


To address the development and manpower needs of the Municipality of Balayan and
the other adjacent localities of the Province of Batangas, the Center shall offer the following
TESDA-registered technical-vocational training programs with competencies assessment
leading to National Certification Levels I-II;

(a) Skills training in industrial technology and hard trades such as metal and
steelworks, 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) Agricutture-related trainings and farm skills development in such areas as farming
technology and farm operations, backyard farming and home-based aquaculture
and propagation innovations, mechanized farm tools and equipment operations,
agribusiness and agri-trade technology and innovations, and relevant farmers’
trainings for increased productivity and entrepreneurship;

(c) Livelihood skills development courses for preferred skills employment and small-
scale entrepreneurship (including practical skills education in crafts and arts),
workmanship and designing (such as fabric, woodworks, jewelry and metal works),
high-speed sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, agriculture and farm technology,
horticulture, livestock raising and breeding, food processing technology, home
technology, culinary arts and commercial cooking (such as baking), beauty culture
{including cosmetology and hair and nail styling), 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, including online home-based
business operation and use of social media business marketing;

{e) Technical-vocational occupation and trade 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;

(f) Computer literacy and information technology (IT)-related skills, digital
technology, web design, animation, photoshop/online photography, computer
design, and advertising;


{g) Social communication skills development, language proficiency courses in English
and other languages for business process outsourcing (call center) employment
and overseas job placement;

{h) Serninars in personality development, career counseling and job placement, work
ethic and values; and

(i) Other preferred priority skills and trades training that may be needed by the
people of Balayan and other areas in the Province of Batangas to enhance their
capacities for practical livelihood, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship
skills.

SECTIONS. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. ~ The provisions of this Act
notwithstanding, the Center established herein shall become operationally effective only
upon the determination and declaration of 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
established herein, in terms of licensed faculty-trainers and personnel, equipment, training
and laboratory facilities, instructional materials, and other standard requirements 25 2
Center; c) sustainable funding source and allocation of budget requirement of the Center
herein established; (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 ofthe host area and adjacent communities served in the context of the Association
of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Philippine Qualifications Framework (POF)
for technical-vocational education; (e) compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and
standards in establishing a Center as may be necessary and applicable.

SECTION 6. Administrations. - 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 the administration and operation of the Center.

‘The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall be appointed by the TESDA Director
General in accordance with Civil Service rules and regulations and the qualification
requirements for such office.

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


SECTION 7. Appropriations. - The amount necessary to implement the provisions
of this Act, and its continued implementation thereafter, shall be included in the annual
General Appropriations Act.

The concerned local government unit (LGU), in consultation with the TESDA, shall
likewise set aside from any available local revenue an amount deemed appropriate as annual
counterpart fund to support the operation of the Balayan TESDA Training and Assessment
Center established herein.

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, NEDA,
Department of Budget and Management (DBM), DILG, 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 implementation of this Act.

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

APPROVED.