TWENTIETH CONGRESS 
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
First Regular Session 
) 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and 
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. 
House Bill No._________ 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill approved by the House of Representatives during the 19th Congress. 
This bill seeks to create the TESDA Skills and Training and Assessment Center in the 
City of Cagayan de Oro located at Barangay Camaman-an. 
The convenience and availability of the training center in Cagayan de Oro City will 
provide the out-of-school youths and our constituents with the opportunity to develop 
themselves to be self-reliant and learn new techniques geared towards earning a livelihood. 
Likewise, it provides the necessary atmosphere where inborn talents are developed into self-
reliant individuals.  
The necessity for its creation in Cagayan de Oro City shall also serve the other 56 
barangays in the Second District of Cagayan de Oro City. With the proper technology and 
other resources available in our locality, our constituents shall be blessed with the technical 
knowledge of helping themselves to sustain the worth of being a productive individual of our 
society on a self-help basis and help themselves towards self-sustainability.  
In view thereof, the approval of this bill is urgently urged. 
 RUFUS B. RODRIGUEZ 
  MAXIMO B. RODRIGUEZ, JR. 
July 1, 2025
 5:08 pm
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TWENTIETH CONGRESS   
) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
First Regular Session  
 
) 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez and 
Representative Maximo B. Rodriguez, Jr. 
House Bill No._________ 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING IN BARANGAY CAMAMAN-AN, CITY OF CAGAYAN DE ORO, A 
TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TRAINING AND 
ASSESSMENT CENTER, TO BE KNOWN AS THE CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY TECHNICAL 
EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY 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. Establishment of a Training and Assessment Center in Cagayan de Oro City. – 
There is hereby established a training and assessment center, under the supervision of the 
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), to be known as the “Cagayan 
de Oro City TESDA Training and Assessment Center”. It shall be located in a highly accessible 
area in Barangay Camaman-an, City of Cagayan de Oro, pursuant to the purposes of this Act 
and to the agreement between the TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs). 
SEC. 2. General Mandate. – The Cagayan de Oro City TESDA Training and Assessment 
Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational 
education and training (TVET) programs to students and local residents from low-income 
families and out-of-school youths, including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, 
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 in trade competencies, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship activities to help 
hasten the development of the host area and its adjacent localities into human resource and 
productivity hubs. 
The Center shall also provide technical-vocational training for teachers and curriculum 
design assistance to the secondary schools in the province offering the technical-vocational 
livelihood track under the K to 12 Program, in coordination with the Department of Education 
and the TESDA. 
SEC. 3. 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 area and its adjacent 
localities. 
The Center 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 Center geared 
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towards the acquisition by residents of practical livelihood, employable skills, gainful 
employment, and entrepreneurial capabilities in priority areas in the City of Cagayan de Oro 
and its neighboring localities. 
 
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 training 
seminars for farmers and fisherfolk to encourage entrepreneurship and thus increase their 
productivity; 
 
(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 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; 
 
(e) 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; 
 
(f) Computer literacy and information technology-related skills, digital technology, web design, 
animation, photoshop or 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 in personality development, career counseling, job placement, and work ethic 
and values; and 
 
(i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of the City of 
Cagayan de Oro and of adjacent localities to enhance their capacities for practical livelihood, 
gainful employment, and entrepreneurial activities. 
 
SEC. 4. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. –The provisions of this Act notwithstanding, 
the Center shall become operational only upon the issuance by the TESDA of a formal 
recommendation and certificate of compliance attesting that the Center has satisfactorily 
complied with the minimum standards of quality it has prescribed 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; (d) 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 the Association of Southeast 
Asian Nations integration and the Philippine Qualifications Framework for TVET; and (e) 
compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and standards as may be necessary and 
applicable in establishing a Center. 
 
SEC. 5. Administration of the Center. – The Center shall be headed by a Technical-Vocational 
Administrator who shall render full-time service and be responsible for its administration and 
operation, under the supervision of the TESDA. 
 
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 may 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. 6. 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. 
 
SEC. 7. Implementing Rules and Regulations. – Within ninety (90) days after the approval of 
this Act, the TESDA shall, in coordination with the DOLE, DTI, DOST, DA, Department of 
Budget and Management, DILG, NEDA, the concerned LGUs, and such other relevant 
agencies and industry business partners of the host locality, prepare and issue rules and 
regulations for the effective implementation of this Act. 
 
SEC. 8. 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. 9. Repealing Clause. – All laws, executive orders, decrees, instructions, rules and 
regulations contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act are repealed or amended 
accordingly. 
 
SEC. 10. Effectivity. – This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in the 
Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation. 
 
 
 
Approved,