Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

3653

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by Honorable Carmelo B. Lazatin IT

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) Training and Accreditation Center in the Municipality of
Magalang, Pampanga.

Magalang is a first class municipality in Pampanga that is home to about
‘a hundred thousand people who are dependent upon agriculture to make a
living, particularly livestock raising and farming. Magalang is famous for its
sweet confections, producing the Filipino favorite pastillas de leche, noted for
its excellent quality and delectable taste. Apart from that, the place thrives with
fishponds, piggeries and poultry farms, It also houses the Pampanga
Agricultural State University, a learning institution that “undertakes
agricultural research, production and extension-training activities aimed at
enhancing the quality of higher education and countryside development.”

It is the municipality’s aim to further improve its economic status by

maximizing the potential of its human and physical resources. Given the global

trend of skills development for more competitiveness, there must be a training

center to provide the necessary tools to the citizens of Magalang.

The establishment of a Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) Training Center in Magalang will effectively equip the
people with basic livelihood skills and knowledge that will help them sustain
the worth of being productive individuals and enable them to become

economically independent at an earlier age.


In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is highly and earnestly

recommended

&
LSB. LAZATIN Il

CARME


Seventeenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No,8658

Introduced by Honorable Carmelo B. Lazatin IT

AN ACT
PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHNICAL.
EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA)
TRAINING. AND ACCREDITATION CENTER IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF MAGALANG, PAMPANGA 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
“Magalang TESDA Training and Accreditation Center Act”.

SEC. 2. Establishment. — There is hereby established the Technical
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training and
Acereditation Center in Municipality of Magalang, Pampanga under the
supervision of the TESDA, hereinafter referred to as the Training and
Accreditation Center.

SEC.3. General Mandate, = The Training and Accreditation Center
shall primarily provide technical and vocational training and skills development
programs to low-income families and out-of-school youth in the Municipality of
Magalang to make them productive, as well as to help them develop into

middle-level skilled manpower, so as to hasten the social development of the


municipality and to meet the needs of both local and international markets. It
shall also serve as the assessment center for technical and vocational skills in
the municipality.

SEC.4. Curriculum Offerings, — The Training and Accreditation

Center shall offer short-term technical —vocational certificate courses within its

areas of specialization.

wy Administration, — The Training and Accreditation Center
shall be headed by a Technical Vocational Administrator under the supervision

of The TESDA.

SEC. 6. Appropriations. ~ The Director General of the TESDA shall
include in the TESDA’s program the establishment of the Magalang TESDA
Training and Accreditation Center, the funding of which shall be included in the
annual General Appropriations Act. The municipal government of Magalang
shall also set aside funds from any available local revenues in an amount

deemed appropriate by the municipal officials concerned as subsidy for the

operationalization of the Training and Accreditation Center,

Implementing Rules and regulations, ~ The TESDA, in

coordination with the Department of Trade and Industry, shall formulate and

issue the nec

ary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this

Act.

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8, Separability Clause. — If for any reason, any part or
provision of this Act is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining parts

pr provisions not affected shall remain in full force and effect.

SEC. 9. Repealing Clause. - All laws, presidential decrees,
executive orders, rules and regulations contrary to or inconsistent with the
provisions of this Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.

SEC. 10. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15)
days after its publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general
circulation.

Approved,