Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. _7887

Introduced by
REPRESENTATIVE LOREN B. LEGARDA

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTERS IN THE
PROVINCE AND IN THE EIGHTEEN (18) MUNICIPALITIES OF ANTIQUE,
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Skills development is crucial in helping our community emerge from poverty. Leaming
vocational skill is a powerful tool to reduce unemployment rate, provide livelihood
opportunities, and improve the productive potential of an individual in contributing to the
economic growth of the community.

According to the World Bank, more than two billion working-age adults are not
equipped with the most essential literacy skills required by employers and one third of
the working age population in low- and middle-income countries lack the basic skills
required to get quality jobs.’

To address these challenges, the government has to continuously formulate innovative
‘strategies and training interventions in support of skills development efforts in order to
produce a skillful and competitive work force.

This measure therefore seeks to establish Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) training and assessment centers in the province and in the
municipalities of Antique, to provide Antiquefios the appropriate venue to access
trainings and learning opportunities that will equip them with the right skills and
technical expertise for them to be competitive, productive and employable in both local
and international market.

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TESDA is mandated to provide relevant, accessible 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.

TESDA has established training centers to assist different localities as they invest in the
enhancement and improvement of their capacity to generate more jobs and develop
skilled workers. In the province of Antique, TESDA is currently implementing the
construction of a provincial TESDA center in the municipality of Hamtic and of
municipal TESDA centers in its 18 municipalities. The passage of this bill will further
strengthen the capability of these TESDA centers to effectively fulfil its mandate in
producing skilled and competitive labor assets.

In view of the foregoing, the immediate passage of this bill is eamestly sought.

LOREN B. LEGARDA

? Republic Act No. 7796 or the Technical Education Skills and Development Act of 1994


Eighteenth Congress
First Regular Session

7887

HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by
REPRESENTATIVE LOREN B. LEGARDA

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTERS IN THE
PROVINCE AND IN THE EIGHTEEN (18) MUNICIPALITIES OF ANTIQUE,
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Be it enacted by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled

SECTION 4. Short Title. — This Act shall be known as the “Antique Provincial
and Municipal TESDA Training and Assessment Centers Act of 2020.”

SEC. 2. Establishment. — A Provincial Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center is hereby
established in the municipality of Hamtic in the Province of Antique, under the
supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the Antique Provincial TESDA Training

and Assessment Center.


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Municipal TESDA Training and Assessment Centers shall likewise be
established to be located in each of the municipalities of Anini-y, Barbaza, Belison,
Bugasong, Caluya, Culasi, Hamtic, Laua-an, Libertad, Pandan, Patnongon, San
Jose de Buenavista, San Remigio, Sebaste, Sibalom, Tibiao, Tobias Fornier, and
Valderrama, pursuant to the purpose of this Act and to the mutual agreement
between the TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs).

SEC. 3. General Mandate. — The Antique Provincial and Municipal TESDA
Training and Assessment Centers, hereinafter referred to as “Centers”, shall
primarily provide technical-vocational education and training (TVET) programs to
students and local residents from low-income families and out-of-school youth,
including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, in the respective localities
they are established to help them become productive, self-reliant, skilled and globally
competitive labor assets.

The Centers shall provide effective employment interventions through training
programs on relevant skills in trade competencies, craftsmanship, and
entrepreneurship activities to help hasten the development of the host area and the
adjacent localities in the Province of Antique into human resource and productivity
hubs.

The Centers shall serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Centers for
acquired competencies in TVET programs in the province and eighteen (18)
municipalities of Antique. It shall also provide technical-vocational training for
teachers and curriculum design assistance to the secondary schools offering the
technical-vocational livelihood track under the K to 12 Program, in coordination with

the Department of Education and TESDA.


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SEC 4. Training Programs. — The Centers shall offer short-term certificate

courses and modular trainings in preferred technical-vocational skills and trade
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 to enable the Centers to
develop skilled manpower to achieve a robust and inclusive economy in the host
area and its adjacent localities.

The Centers may establish research and technology hubs, technology
development farms, satellite or extension training centers, promote mobile training
programs, and strengthen linkages among the industry partners, the academe, and
the Centers geared towards the acquisition by residents of practical livelihood,
employable skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurial capabilities in priority
areas in the province and eighteen (18) municipalities of Antique.

The Centers shall offer the following TVET programs with competencies
assessment leading to National Certificate 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 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 trainings and skills development
in such areas as farming technology, fishing operations technology,

backyard farming and home-based aquaculture and propagation


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innovations, mechanized farm, fishing tolls and equipment

operation, agribusiness, agri-aqua trade technology and
innovations, and relevant farmers and fisherfolk’s training for
increased productivity and entrepreneurship;

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;

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,
online home-based business operation and social media business
marketing;

Technical-vocational occupation and trades skills such as
carpentry, masonry, plumbing, welding, practical electricity and
installation, automotive servicing, electronics servicing, personal

computer servicing, and such other relevant practical skills courses;


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Computer literacy and information technology-related skills, aod
technology, web design, animation, photoshop/online photography,
computer design and advertising;

Social communication skills and language proficiency courses in
English and other languages for business process outsourcing
employment and overseas job placement;

Seminars in personality development, career counseling, job
placement, and work ethic and values; and

Other preferred skills and trades that may be needed by the people
of the province and eighteen (18) municipalities of Antique 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 shall become operational only upon the determination

and certification by the TESDA, through the issuance of a formal recommendation

and certificate of compliance that the Centers has satisfactorily complied with the

minimum standards of quality prescribed by TESDA governing the following:

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standard procedures and guidelines for the establishment and
operation of Centers;

operational sustainability of the Centers, in terms of licensed
faculty-trainers and personnel, equipment, training and laboratory
facilities, instructional materials, and other standard requirement of
Centers;

sustainable funding source and allocation of the budgetary

requirement;


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d. full alignment of the training programs offered with minimum

Standards of competency-based quality technical-vocational skills
technology and the needs of the host area and adjacent community
served within the context of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) integration and the Philippine Qualification
Framework for TVET; and

e. compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and standard,

as may be necessary and applicable in establishing a Centers.

SEC 6. Administration. - The Centers shall be headed by a Technical-
Vocational Administrator who shall be under the supervision of the TESDA, render
full-time service and be responsible foe 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, instrumentalities or persons,
and seek 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 operation of the Centers, 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 Centers herein established.


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SEC 8. Implementing Rules and Regulations. — Within ninety (90) de
after the approval of this Act, the TESDA shall, in coordination with the DOLE, DTI,
DOST, DA, Department Budget and Management, DILG, NEDA, the concerned
LGUs, and such other relevant agencies and industry-business partners of the host
locality, prepare and issue necessary rules and regulations for the effective
implementation 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
thereof shall not be affected and shall remain in force and in effect.

SEC 10. Repealing Clause. - All laws, executive orders, decrees,
instructions, rules and regulations contrary or inconsistent with any provision of this
Act are repealed or amended 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,


Approved,