Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ________ 
Introduced by HON. EDGAR M. CHATTO 
First District, Bohol 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Bohol is a celebrated tourism destination and a fast-emerging economic hub in 
the Visayas region. With the continuous improvement in transportation, through the 
development of ports and airports, international and local labor markets are starting to 
become seamless. The only way to be at par with the changing times is to upgrade the 
skills of our greatest asset: the constituency. 
The training that the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority 
(TESDA) provides is a very valuable channel in improving the skills of the Boholanos. 
Seen to directly benefit are the low-income families, out-of-school youths as well as 
those who want to upgrade their skills. 
An additional TESDA training and accreditation center in the first district of the 
province will go a long way in ensuring the competitiveness of the Boholanos in catering 
to the skills requirements of the province as a tourism and business hub but will also 
ensure their competitiveness in the international labor arena. 
Loon is a second-class municipality in the first district of the province boasting of 
47 barangays. It also hosts a port that is being poised as an international cruise ship 
port. A TESDA training and accreditation center there will serve a great number of 
constituencies in Loon as well as in adjacent communities. 
In the previous Congress, this legislative measure has passed third reading at the 
House of Representatives but remained pending with the Senate due to to time 
contraints. 
Thus, the support for the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
REP. EDGAR M. CHATTO 
March 13, 2023
12:46 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ________ 
Introduced by HON. EDGAR M. CHATTO 
First District, Bohol 
“AN ACT 
PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TECHNICAL 
EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) 
TRAINING AND ACSSESSMENT CENTER IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF 
LOON, PROVINCE OF BOHOL, TO BE KNOWN AS THE LOON, BOHOL 
TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND APPROPRIATING 
FUNDS THEREFOR” 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in 
Congress assembled: 
SECTION 1. Short Title. – This Act shall be known as the “Loon, Bohol 
TESDA Training and Assessment Center Act.” 
SECTION 2. Establishment. – There is hereby established a Technical 
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center 
in the Municipality of Loon, Province of Bohol, under the supervision of the TESDA, to 
be known as the “Loon, Bohol TESDA Training and Assessment Center”. It shall be 
established in a highly accessible location in the Municipality of Loon, pursuant to the 
purposes of this Act and to the mutual agreement of the TESDA and the concerned local 
government units (LGUs). 
SECTION 3. General Mandate. – The Loon, Bohol 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 fro low-income families, and out-of-school youths, including person with 
disabilities and indigenous people, in the Municipality of Loon and neighboring 
municipalities in the Province of Bohol to help them become productive, self-reliant and 
globally competitive labor assets. 
The center shall provide effective employment interventions through training 
programs on relevant skills, trade competencies, craftmanship, and entrepreneurship 
activities needed to deliver the effective employment interventions that will help hasten 
the development of the host area and the adjacent localities in the Province of Bohol into 
human resource and productivity hubs.  
The Center shall also serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired 
competencies in TVET programs in the Municipality of Loon and adjacent localities in 
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the Province of Bohol. It shall also provide teacher’s training and curriculum design 
assistance to secondary schools offering the technical-vocational livelihood track under 
the under the K-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 manpower to achieve a robust and inclusive economy in the host are 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 the Municipality of Loon and neighboring 
localities in the Province of Bohol. 
 
 
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 mechanical assembly, 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 
farming. Fishing tools and equipment operation, agribusiness, 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, online 
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, 
electronic 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 and job placement, 
and work ethic and values; and 
 
i. 
Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of 
the Municipality of Loon and the adjacent localities of the Province of Bohol 
to enhance their capabilities 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 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 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 
the budgetary requirement; d0 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 
Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) integration and the Philippine 
Qualifications Framework for TVET; and e0 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 who shall be under the supervision of the TESDA, render full-
time service, and who shall 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 counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons for 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 DOLE, DTI, 
DOST, 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 implementation 
of this Act. 
 
 
SECTION 9. Separability Clause. If, for any reason, any part or provision of 
this Act is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining parts or provisions not 
affected thereby shall remain in full force and effect. 
 
 
SECTION 10. Repealing Clause. All laws, presidential decrees, executive 
orders, memoranda, rules and regulations contrary or inaccurate with the provision of 
this Act are hereby repealed, amended or modified accordingly. 
 
 
SECTION 11. Effectivity. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general 
circulation. 
 
 
 
 
Approved,