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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. !7!1

Introduced by HONORABLE LUIS RAYMUND F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) Training Center in the Municipality of Minalabac, Province of
Camarines Sur. The same bill has passed the third reading during the 17" Congress,
and aims to serve 25 barangays in Minalabac.

In establishing a vocational and technical skills center, we are providing windows
of opportunities for people under the care of our education system. The center will not
only cater to the youth sector, but to everyone willing and able to learn skills that they
need in order to work locally and abroad. Accessible and high-quality technical
education and skills development centers will help the country produce self-reliant
and able workers.

This bill hopes to stimulate technical and vocational skills as an element of our
economic progress. It hopes to uplift the lives of the Filipino people by giving them
chances to acquire quality education without the economic constraints. With the
proper infrastructure and sustained training programs available in our education
system, we are able to provide opportunities for our constituents to help themselves
and make them employable.

In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought.

LUIS RAYMUND /#LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL noltit

Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF MINALABAC, PROVINCE OF CAMARINES SUR, TO BE
KNOWN AS THE MINALABAC TESDA 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. Short Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Minalabac TESDA Training
and Assessment Center Act".

SEC. 2. Establishment. - There is hereby established a Technical Education and

Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training Center in a highly accessible area in
the Municipality of Minalabac, Province of Camarines Sur, under the supervision of the
TESDA, to be known as the Minalabac TESDA Training Center.

SEC. 3. General Mandate, — The Minalabac TESDA Training Center, hereinafter
referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational training and skills
development programs to students and residents from low-income families and out-of-
school

youths, —_ including college drop-outs and persons with disabilities (PWDs), in the
Municipality of Minalabac and the neighboring communities in the Province of
Camarines Sur, geared towards the acquisition of practical livelihood, employable
skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship. 16

The Center shall help train local residents to become productive, self-reliant and
globally competitive middle to high-level skilled labor force to hasten the social and
economic development of these areas, in particular, and to meet the manpower needs
of both local and intemational labor markets, in general.

The Center shall consider in the design of relevant technical-vocational training
programs to be offered thereat a competency assessment of the socioeconomic profile,
employment conditions and opportunities, business climate, market and industry


potentials, resources available and presence of support structures, including the
literacy level and skills readiness, and the overall development needs of the host area
and adjacent communities within the operational radius of the Center established
herein. The Center shall also consider the relevant skills trade competencies,
craftsmanship training programs and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the
effective employment and development interventions required to make these areas as
human resource and economic productivity hubs.

The Center shalll also serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired
competencies in technical-vocational skills in the Municipality of Minalabac and other
municipalities of the Province of Camarines Sur.

Preference in admission, however, shall be given to the most disadvantaged citizens,
including PWDs, and to the most economically depressed areas of the Municipality of
Minalabac, Province of Camarines Sur, within the operational radius of the Center.

The Center shall, in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the
TESDA, render relevant teachers’ training assistance and curriculum design to the
secondary

schools offering technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) track under the K to 12 Program
of the DepEd in the Municipality of Minalabac and the other municipalities in the
Province of Camarines Sur.

SEC. 4. Training Programs — The Center shall offer diverse short-term certificate
courses and modular trainings in relevant technical-vocational skills and trades
‘specialization

to comply with employment standards in preferred market-driven labor opportunities,
but

shall likewise give premium efforts to skills specialization for local market employment
requirements geared towards achieving the development needs for a robust inclusive
economy of the host area and each of the adjacent localities and communities within
the

operational radius of the Center, in consultation with the Department of Labor and
Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Science
and

Technology (DOST), Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), National
Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), business-industry partners, and such
other relevant agencies, both local and interational

The Center may establish, as deemed necessary and practicable, research and
technology hubs, mobile training programs, and satellite or extension training centers in
priority areas throughout the Municipality of Minalabac within the service radius of the
Center to strengthen linkages among the industry, the academe and the technology
centers thereat.

To address the development and manpower needs of the Municipality of Minalabac
and the other adjacent localities of the Province of Camarines Sur, the Center shall
offer the following TESDA-registered technical-vocational training programs with
competencies assessment leading to National Certification Levels 1-111


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-related trainings and farm skills development in such areas as faming
technology and farm operations, backyard farming and home-based aquaculture
and propagation innovations, mechanized farm tools and equipment operations,
agribusiness and agri-trade technology and innovations, and relevant farmers’
trainings for increased productivity and entrepreneurship;

¢. Livelihood skills development courses for preferred skills employment and small
scale entrepreneurship, including practical skills education in crafts and arts,
workmanship and designing, high-speed sewing, dressmaking and tailoring,
horticulture, livestock raising and breeding, food processing technology, home
technology, culinary arts and commercial cooking, beauty culture, 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, including online home-based
business operation and use of social media business marketing;

e. Technical-vocational occupation and trades skills such as carpentry, masonry,
plumbing, practical electricity and installation, automotive servicing, electronics
servicing, welding technician, personal computer (PC) servicing, and such other
relevant practical skills courses;

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

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

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

i, Other preferred priority skills and trades training that may be needed by the

people of the Municipality of Minalabac, and relevant as well to the needs of the 40
other areas in the Province of Camarines Sur, to enhance their capacities for practical
livelihoods, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship skills.


SEC. 5. Compliance with TESDA Requirements. - The provisions of this Act
notwithstanding, the Center 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 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 (SPGs) for
the

establishment and operation of a Center; b) operational sustainability of the Center
established herein, in terms of licensed faculty-trainers and personnel, equipment, training

and laboratory facilities, instructional materials, and other standard requirements as
a Center,

¢) sustainable funding source and allocation of budget requirement of the Center
herein
established;

d) assurance that the training programs offered are fully aligned with the 4minimum
standards of competency-based quality technical-vocational skills technology and sthe
needs of the host area and adjacent communities served in the context of the ASEAN 6and
Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) for technical-vocational education; and
€) compliance with such other TESDA conditionality’s and standards, as may be necessary
and Sapplicable, in establishing a Center,

SEC. 6. Administration. — The Center shall be headed by a Technical-Vocational
‘Administrator, under the supervision of the TESDA, who shall render full-time services 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 Civil Service rules and regulations and the qualification requirements for
‘such office.

The Administrator shall enter into mutual agreements with locally-based private and

public counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons, subject to approval by the
TESDA Director General, for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively
implement this Act.

SEC. 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 concemed LGU, in consultation with the TESDA, shall likewise set aside

from any available local revenue an amount deemed appropriate as annual counterpart

fund to support the operation of the Minalabac TESDA Training and Assessment Center
established herein.

SEC. 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, NEDA,


Department of Budget and Management, DILG, 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 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 in affect.

SEC. 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.

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.