July 13, 2022
12:02 am
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. _________ 
Introduced by Rep. Mohamad Khalid Q. Dimaporo and Rep. Sittie Aminah Q. Dimaporo 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY 
(TESDA) 
TRAINING 
AND 
ASSESSMENT 
CENTER 
IN 
THE 
MUNICIPALITY OF TUBOD, PROVINCE OF LANAO DEL NORTE, TO BE KNOWN 
AS THE TUBOD TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, 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 “Tubod TESDA Training and 
Assessment Center Act”. 
SECTION 2. There is hereby established a Technical Education and Skills Development 
Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in Brgy. Poblacion, Municipality of Tubod, 
Province of Lanao del Norte, to be known as the Tubod TESDA Training and Assessment Center. 
It shall be established in a highly accessible location in the Municipality of Tubod, Province of 
Lanao del Norte, pursuant to the purpose of this Act and to the mutual agreement between the 
TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs). 
SECTION 3. General Mandate. The Tubod 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, in the Municipality of 
Tubod and the rest of the localities comprising the First Congressional District of the Province of 
Lanao del Norte to help them become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive labor assets. 
The Center shall offer training programs on relevant skills trade competencies, 
craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the effective employment 
interventions that will hasten the development of the host area and adjacent localities in the 
Province of Lanao del Norte into human resource and productivity hubs.  
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The Center shall serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired 
competencies in TVET programs in the Municipality of Tubod and other municipalities of the 
Province of Lanao del Norte. It shall provide teachers' training and curriculum design assistance 
to the secondary schools offering the technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) track under the K to 
12 Program.  
 
SECTION 4. 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 such 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, and promote mobile training programs to strengthen linkages 
among the industry partners, the academe, and the Center geared towards the acquisition of 
practical livelihood, employable skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship in priority areas 
throughout the Municipality of Tubod and in adjacent areas in the First District of the Province of 
Lanao del Norte.  
 
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 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 innovations, mechanized farm, fishing tools and equipment operation, 
agribusiness and agri-aqua trade technology and innovations, and relevant farmers and fisherfolks' 
trainings for increased productivity and entrepreneurship;  
 
(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, 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 use of 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/online photography, computer design, and advertising;  
 
(g) Social communication skills development and language proficiency eourses in English 
and other languages for business process outsourcing employment and overseas job placement;  
 
(h) Seminars on personality development, career counseling and job placement, work ethic 
and values; and  
 
(i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of the 
Municipality of Tubod, and other areas in the Province of Lanao del Norte to enhance their 
capacities for practical livelihood, gainful employment, and entrepreneurial activities. 
 
SECTION 5. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. - The provisions of this Act 
notwithstanding, the Center shall become operational only upon determination and certification by 
the TESDA, through the issuance of a formal recommendation and certificate of compliance, that 
the Center has satisfactorily complied with the minimum requirements for quality standards 
prescribed by the TESDA governing the following competency assessment:  
 
(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 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 the host area and adjacent communities served in the context of the 
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 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.  
 
SECTION 6. Administration. - The Center 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 administration and operation of the Center. 
 


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 or instrumentalities and persons, subject to the approval of 
the TESDA Director General, for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement 
this Act. 
 
SECTION 7. Appropriations. – The amount necessary to implement the provisions of this 
Act, and its continued implementation thereafter, shall be included in the annual General 
Appropriations Act.  
 
The concerned LGU, 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 Tubod TESDA Training and Assessment Center herein established.  
 
SECTION 8. 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, concerned LGUs, and such other relevant 
agencies and industry-business partners of the host locality, prepare and issue the necessary rules 
and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.  
 
SECTION 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 remain in force and effect. 
 
SECTION 10. 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.  
 
SECTION 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,