Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____
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Introduced by Representative Peter John D. Calderon 
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EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill was originally introduced as House Bill No. 7172 by the undersigned Peter John 
Calderon during the 17th Congress where it was approved by the Committee on Rules.  It was 
subsequently approved on 2nd reading, approved on 3rd reading and was transmitted to the 
Senate where it was not acted upon. 
The establishment of an accessible, high quality and efficient Technical Education and 
Skills Development Authority and Assessment Center shall be beneficial not only in the 
municipality of Ronda but to the entire 7th District of Cebu. 
The 7th District of Cebu is composed of eight (8) municipalities, namely Ronda, Moalboal, 
Alegria, Ginatilan, Dumanjug, Alcantara, Badian, and Malabuyoc.  The District has no TESDA 
training and Assessment Center. 
This bill, which aimed to equip our constituents with the basic practical knowledge and 
technical expertise, geared towards a society that is productive, self-reliant and more importantly 
employable.  The necessity for the creation of Ronda TESDA Training and Assessment Center 
shall serve not only fourteen (14) barangays of the municipality of Ronda but likewise all the 
municipalities of the 7th District. 
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought 
REP. PETER JOHN D. CALDERON 
7th District - Cebu 
August 15, 2022
10:14 am
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO.  _____ 
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Introduced by Representative Peter John D. Calderon 
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AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY 
(TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF RONDA, 
PROVINCE OF CEBU, TO BE KNOWN AS THE RONDA TESDA TRAINING AND 
ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
Be it adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SEC.   1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Ronda TESDA Training and 
Assessment Center Act”. 
SEC.   2.   Establishment. – This is hereby established a Technical Education and Skills 
Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in the Municipality of Ronda, 
Province of Cebu, under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the Ronda TESDA 
Training and Assessment Center. 
SEC.  3.  General Mandate. – The Ronda TESDA Training and Assessment Center, 
hereafter referred to as  the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational training and skills 
development programs to students  and residents from low-income families and out-of school-
youths, including college dropouts and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in the Municipality of 
Ronda and the rest of the localities comprising the Seventh Congressional District of the Province 
of Cebu, geared towards the acquisition of practical livelihood, employable skills, gainful 
employment, and entrepreneurship. 
The Center shall play a pivotal role in helping the students and other residents in the Municipality 
of Ronda and the adjacent areas and localities in the Province of Cebu to become a 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 enable the trained local residents 
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 socioeconomic profile, employment conditions 
and opportunities, business climate, market and industry potentials, available resources, and 
presence of support structures, including the literacy level and skills readiness, and the 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 
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competencies, craftsmanship training programs and entrepreneurship activities needed to 
deliver the effective employment and development interventions required to make these areas 
as human resource capital and productivity hubs. 
 
The Center shall also serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for required 
competencies in technical-vocational skills.  Preference in admission, however, shall be given to 
the most disadvantaged citizens, including PWDs, and to the most economically depressed 
areas of the Municipality of Ronda and the other municipalities in the Province of Cebu. 
 
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. 
 
 
SEC. 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.  It shall also 
give premium efforts to skills specialization for local market employment requirements geared 
towards achieving the development needs for  a robust inclusive economy of the host area and 
each of the  adjacent localities and communities, in consultation with the Department of labor 
and Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Science and 
Technology (DOST).  Department of 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 the Municipality of Ronda and in the Seventh Congressional District of the Province 
of Cebu to strengthen linkages among the industry, the academe, and the technology centers 
thereat. 
 
The Center shall offer the following TESDA-registered technical-vocational training programs 
with competencies assessment leading to at least National Certification Levels I-III, as 
applicable, to address the development and manpower needs of the Municipality of Ronda and 
the other adjacent localities of the Seventh Congressional District of Cebu within the operational 
radius of the Center: 
(a) 
 Skills training in industrial 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-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, high–speed sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, horticulture, livestock raising and 
breeding, food processing technology, home technology, culinary arts and commercial cooking, 
including baking, beauty culture, 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, 
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 employment, such as call center and overseas 
job placement; 
 
(h) 
Seminars 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 the 
Municipality of Ronda and other municipalities in the Seventh Congressional District in the 
Province of Cebu, to enhance their capacities for practical livelihood, gainful employment, and 
entrepreneurship skills. 
 
           Sec. 5. 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 a 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 as a 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 of the host area 
and adjacent communities served in the context of the Association of South East Asian Nations 
(ASEAN) and Philippines Qualifications Framework (PQF) for technical-vocational education; 
and (e) 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 services 
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 Service Commission rules and regulations and the qualification requirements 
for such office. 
 


The Administrator shall enter into mutual agreements with locally-based private and public 
counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons, subject to approval of the TESDA Director 
General, for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement this Act. 
 
Sec. 7. Appropriations. – The amount necessary to implement the provisions of this Act., and its 
continued implementation thereafter, shall be included in the annual General Appropriation Act.   
 
The concerned local government units (LGUs), in consultation with the TESDA, shall likewise 
set aside from any available local revenue amount deemed appropriate as annual counterpart 
fund to support the operation of the Ronda TESDA Training and Assessment Center established 
herein. 
 
Sec. 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, Department of Budget and 
Management, 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 
implementations of this Act. 
 
Sec. 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 remain in force and effect. 
 
Sec. 10.  Repealing Clause. – All laws, executive orders, decrees, instructions, rules and 
regulations contrary to or in consistent with any provision of this Act are repealed or amended 
accordingly. 
 
Sec. 11. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the publication in the Official 
Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation. 
 
Approved,