Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL No. 7238

Introduced by HON. MANUEL F. ZUBIRI

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The Lumads' call for State recognition and protection of their right to education has been
loud and clear the past few months. The severe lack of adequate facilities for formal
education and skills training specifically geared towards the needs of the senior members of
indigenous peoples have forced the Lumad themselves to personally call the central
government's attention to their worsening plight’. While legislators from Bukidnon have
already filed several bills to establish more formal educational facilities for the Bukidnon
youth, the need for adequate skills training faciltiies for Bukidnon’s ageing indigenous
peoples have yet to be met

In hopes of addressing the foregoing legislative gap, | am filing the instant bill to establish
an Indigenous Training Center which would provide training and skills development for the
underserved segments of the Lumad population of Bukidnon, senior citizens included. By
empowering the ageing Lumads through training and skills development, the Center seeks
to equip them with the tools needed for them to remaining active contributors to national
growth and development well into their twilight years.

The instant bill is one of several bills which | intend to fiJé to address the pressing need to

provide my constituents with the basic necessities and services needed for them to survive

and thrive in the 21" century.

! Umil, Anne Marxe, “Why Lumad children persist in fight for right to education”, Bulatlat,
hitp://bulatlat.com/main/2017/11/25/lumad-children-persist-fight-right-education/,
Accessed 5 February 2018



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

SEVENTEENTH CONGRESS
Second Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 7238

Introduced by Representative HON. MANUEL F. ZUBIRI

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDIGENOUS TRAINING
CENTER IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF QUEZON, BUKIDNON, AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. Indigenous Training Center. - There shall be established a training
and learning center for indigenous peoples in the Municipality of Quezon, Province of
Bukidnon

SECTION 2. Participation of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples ~ It
shall be the duty of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP), in
coordination with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority to provide the
appropriate training of skills and development to members of the indigenous cultural
communities (ICCs) in the Province of Bukidnon.

To this end, the NCIP shall formulate learning programs that shall be relevant to the
needs of the concerned ICCs who themselves shall determine the types of skills they need
to be trained at, given their circumstances. For this purpose, the NCIP shall coordinate with
the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for the construction of a building
where the skills training and learning sessions shall be conducted.

SECTION 3. Implementing Rules and Regulations. - The Commissioner of the
NCIP, in consultation with the TESDA, shall promulgate the necessary rules and
regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this Act.

SECTION 4. Repealing Clause. - All laws, parts of laws, decrees, presidential
issuances, proclamations, orders, ordinances, and administrative regulations in conflict with
the provisions of this Act are hereby amended, modified or repealed accordingly.

SECTION 5. Separability Clause. ~ If any provision of this law or the application
thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this law, or the
application of such provision or part to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected
thereby.

SECTION 6. Effectivity Clause. - This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its
publication in the Official Gazette or in at least two (2) newspapers of general circulation.

Approved,