Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No._ 2952

INTRODUCED BY HONORABLE JANICE V. DEGAMO

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Pursuant to Republic Act No. 7796, it is the declared policy of the State to
provide relevant, accessible, high quality and efficient technical education and
skills development in support of the development of high quality _Filipino
middle-level manpower responsive to and in accordance with Philippine
development goals and priorities. Further, the State shall encourage active
participation of various concemed sectors, particularly private enterprises, being
direct participants in and immediate beneficiaries of a trained and skilled
workforce, in providing technical education and skills development opportunities.

In realizing this policy, the Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) was created and mandated to integrate, coordinate and monitor
skills development programs; restructure efforts to promote and develop middle-level
manpower, approve skills standards and tests; develop an accreditation system for
institutions involved in middle-level manpower development; fund programs and
projects for technical education and skills development; and assist trainers training
programs.

To carry out the said mandate, TESDA training centers were established in
different localities and provinces. This has abetted provinces in preventing
curtailment of employment opportunities as it increases the standards of laborers’
skills necessary in the professional and economic development. However, there are
some districts that are not yet endowed with TESDA training centers. These include
the 3rd District of Negros Oriental. The creation of TESDA centers in the 3rd District
of Negros Oriental will certainly advance its agricultural sector through accessible,
affordable, and quality training, will curb unemployment rate, and will also respond to
the increasing number of interested students and out-of-school youth in the province.
‘Therefore, expanding the coverage of TESDA programs in the geographically
challenged province of Negros Oriental is undeniably apt.

In line with the preceding, this bill proposes the establishment of a TESDA
Training and Assessment Centers in the City of Bayawan and Municipalities of
Bacong and Siaton, 3rd District of Negros Oriental. This will certainly help us move
closer to. shared prosperity as it will achieve an increase of manpower development

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and will ensure an inclusive technical education and skills development in the
province and in the whole country

In view of the foregoing, the approval of this bill is fervently called for.

JA! V. DEGAMO

Representative| 3r¥ District of Negros Oriental


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

House Bill No. 2952

Introduced by HONORABLE JANICE V. DEGAMO,

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT
CENTERS IN THE CITY OF BAYAWAN, AND MUNICIPALITIES OF
BACONG AND SIATON, THIRD DISTRICT, PROVINCE OF NEGROS
ORIENTAL, AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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 “Bayawan,
Bacong, and Siaton, Negros Oriental TESDA Training and Assessment Centers Act”

SEC, 2. Establishment. - There are hereby established a Technical Education
and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Centers, under
the supervision of the TESDA, to be known individually as follows:

a. Bayawan, Negros Oriental TESDA Training and Assessment Center;

b. Bacong, Negros Oriental TESDA Training and Assessment Center;
and

c. Siaton, Negros Oriental TESDA Training and Assessment Center.

‘The Centers shall be established in strategic location in the City of Bayawan
and Municipalities of Bacong and Siaton in the Third District of Negros Oriental,
pursuant to the purposes of this Act, and to the mutual agreement between the
TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs).

SEC. 3. General Mandate. — The Bayawan, Bacong, and Siaton, Negros
Oriental TESDA Training and Assessment Centers, hereinafter referred to as the
Centers, shall primarily provide relevant and quality technical-vocational education
and training (TVET), including practical short-term specialty courses and one (1) year
to three (3) year TESDA-registered technical-vocational skills training programs and
certificate courses, to out-of-school youths, high school students and graduates,
unemployed and underemployed adults, workers in the informal sector, persons with


disabilities and ethnic indigenous people, and residents from low-income families to
help them become productive, self-reliant, and globally competitive labor assets.

‘The Centers shall provide effective employment interventions through training
programs on relevant skills trade competencies, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship
activities that will help hasten the development of the host areas and the adjacent
localities into human resource and productivity hubs.

The Centers shall consider, in the design of relevant TVET programs to be
offered therein, the preferred skills categories based on identified development targets
to propel the province to becoming a skilled human resource and economic
productivity hub. The Centers shall also serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment
Centers for acquired competencies in technical-vocational skills in the Province.

The Centers, in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and
the TESDA, shall offer relevant teachers” training assistance and curriculum design to
the secondary schools providing the technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) track
under the K to 12 Program of the DepEd.

SEC. 4. Curricular Offerings/Training Programs. — The Centers, in
consultation with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of
Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Agriculture (DA), Department of the
Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Science and Technology
(DOST), National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), locally and
internationally-based business industry partners, and other relevant agencies, shall
offer diverse short-term certificate courses and modular trainings in relevant
technical-vocational skills and trade specialization to comply with employment
standards in preferred and emerging market-driven labor opportunities. The Centers
shall spearhead training programs in new skills to respond to market trends towards
attaining a robust inclusive economy in the host sites and in the adjacent localities and
communities in the Province.

The Centers may establish research and technology hubs, technology
development farms, mobile training programs, and satellite or extension training
centers in priority areas and neighboring localities in the Province of Negros Oriental
to serve the manpower needs of the area and strengthen the linkages among the
industry, the academe, and the Centers.

The Centers shall offer the following TESDA-registered technical-vocational
training programs with competencies assessment leading to National Certification
Levels I-III to increase the livelihood assets and competitive productivity of the
localities in the 3rd District of Negros Oriental:

(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 and aquaculture-related training and skills development in
such areas as farming-fishing operations technology, backyard farming
and home-based aquaculture and propagation innovation, mechanized farm
and fishing tools and equipment operation, agribusiness, agri-aqua trade
technology and innovation, and relevant farmers’ and_fisherfolk’s
continuing training for increased productivity and entrepreneurship,

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

(d) Livelihood skills development courses for preferred skills employment and
small-scale entrepreneurship (including practical skills education in crafis
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 (including baking), beauty culture (such as
cosmetology, hail and nail styling) and health and wellness training;

(©) 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;

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

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

(h) Seminars in personality development, career counseling and job
placement, and work ethics and values; and


(i) Other preferred priority skills and trades training that may be utilized by
the people of the City of Bayawan, Municipalities of Bacong and Siaton,
and of adjacent localities 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 Centers 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 Centers have
satisfactorily complied with the minimum requirements for quality standards
prescribed by TESDA governing the following competency assessment:

(a) Standard procedures and guidelines (SPGs) for the establishment and
operation of a TESDA-accredited provincial training and competency
assessment centers;

(b) Operational sustainability of the Centers established herein, such as
licensed faculty-trainers and personnel, equipment, training, and
laboratory facilities, instructional materials, and sustainable funding
source for the budgetary requirement of the Centers herein established;

(c) Sustainable funding source and allocation of the 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 the needs of host locality and the adjacent
communities within the service area of the Centers and full program
alignment and benchmarking in the context of the Association of
Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) framework and the PQF for TVET;
and

(e) Compliance with other TESDA conditionality and standards in
establishing a TESDA-accredited training assessment center, as may
be necessary.

SEC. 6. Administration. - The Centers 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 Centers’ respective administration and
operation.

‘The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall hold the appropriate position
title and rank under existing TESDA staffing pattern, and who shall be appointed by
the TESDA Director-General in accordance with civil service rules and regulations
and the qualification requirements of the TESDA. 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,


SEC. 7. Appropriations, — The Director-General of the TESDA shall include
in the Authority’s program the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall
be included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

SEC. 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. ~ Within sixty (60) days after
the effectivity of this Act, the TESDA, in coordination with the DOLE, DTI, DA,
Department of Budget and Management (DBM), DILG, DOST, NEDA, the
concerned LGUs, and such other relevant agencies and industry-business partners of
the host localities, and the provincial government shall formulate and issue the
necessary rules and regulations for the implementation of this Act.

SEC. 9. Separability Clause. ~ If, for any reason, any section 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.

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 modified 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,