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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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Twentieth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSEBILLNO. 283 _

Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE LAARNI LAVIN ROQUE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Education is fundamental to the realization of inclusive growth, as it begets
knowledge and culture, education finds its practical articulation and
demonstration in the world of work. Thus, knowledge, as it is inextricably
embedded with people replete with ideas and bursting with entrepreneurial
spirits, is valued as the key strategic resource to achieving growth objectives.
Commitment to education acknowledges the different pathways toward
acquiring knowledge, of which technical and vocational education and training,
as a path when taken in conjunction with other education and training pathways,
is recognized to be one primary knowledge building block.

Republic Act No. 7796, otherwise known as the Technical Education and
Skills Development Act of 1994 provides that “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.

This Bill seeks to expand the coverage of TESDA programs by creating a
municipal training center in the Municipality of Kalilangan, Province of Bukidnon.

Creation of this training center will provide relevant, accessible, high quality
and efficient technical education and skills development in support of the
development of Filipino middle level manpower responsive to and in
accordance with Philippine development goals and priorities.

Given the above premises, the urgent passage of this bill is earnestly

sought.
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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

Twentieth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILLNO. _283

Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE LAARNI LAVIN ROQUE

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING THE KALILANGAN TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING CENTER AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of the
Philippines in Congress assembled:

SECTION 1. TESDA Kalilangan Municipal Training Center. -There shall be
established a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
Municipal Training Center in Kalilangan, Bukidnon under the control and
supervision of the TESDA.

SECTION 2. General Mandate. - The TESDA Municipal Training Center
shall primarily provide technical-vocational training and skills development
programs to students from low-income families and to out-of-school youths in
Kalilangan, Bukidnon. It shall develop the students to become productive, self-
reliant, and globally competitive middle-level skilled labor workers, in order to
boost the social and economic development of Kalilangan, Bukidnon, as well as
to meet the demand of local and international labor markets.

The TESDA Municipal Training Center shall also serve as municipal
competency assessment center for required competencies in technical-
vocational skills in the whole Kalilangan, Bukidnon. In coordination with the
Department of Education (DepEd), it shall render when necessary and
practicable, teachers’ capability building programs and curriculum design
technical assistance to the secondary schools in the Municipality of Kalilangan,
Bukidnon offering technical-vocational and livelihood track under the K to 12
Program of the DepEd.

SECTION 3. Curricular Offerings. - The TESDA Municipal Training Center
shall address the skills development priorities of the Kalilangan, Bukidnon. It


shall offer short-term courses in preferred market-driven and relevant technical-
vocational courses or qualifications within its areas of specialization in
consultation with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), the Local
Government Units (LGUs), the industries and such other relevant agencies, both
local and international.

The TESDA Municipal Training Center may likewise establish research and
development centers, technology development farms, and mobile training
Programs throughout the Municipality to strengthen linkages between the
industry, academe, and the technology programs.

SECTION 4. Site. The TESDA Municipal Training Center shall be
established in the Municipality of Kalilangan, Bukidnon, pursuant to the mutual
agreement between TESDA and the Municipal Government of Kalilangan,
Bukidnon.

SECTION 5. Organizational Structure and Staffing Pattern. - The TESDA
Municipal Training Center shall adopt the organizational structure and staffing
pattern of a TESDA Regional Training Center in accordance with the existing
guidelines of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), and the Civil
Service Commission (CSC).

SECTION 6. Appropriations. ~ The amount necessary for the
implementation of this Act shall be taken from the current fiscal year's
unexpended and unobligated appropriations of the agency. Thereafter, the
amount necessary for the funding of the TESDA Municipal Training Center shall
be included in the Annual General Appropriations Act as a separate line-item
budget under TESDA.

SECTION 7. Separability Clause. If any provision of this Act shall be
declared invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining part or Provisions not
otherwise affected shall remain in force.

SECTION 8. Repealing Clause. Any law, decree, ordinance, administrative
circulars not consistent with any provision of this Act is hereby amended,
repealed or modified accordingly.

SECTION 9. Fffectivity Clause. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days
after its complete publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2)

newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,