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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES } ey TIME 7:41 pm
Third Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez

House Bill No. 10592
EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to establish a TESDA training and assessment center in Barangay Agusan,
Cagayan de Oro City.

This TESDA training and assessment center shall be beneficial to high school graduates,
college graduates, out-of-school youths, and the constituents of Barangay Agusan.

The Center will help the beneficiaries become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive
labor assets. It shall provide effective employment interventions through training programs on
relevant skills in trade competencies, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship activities to help
hasten the development of Barangay Agusan.

In view of the foregoing, immediate approval of this measure is earnestly requested.

RUFUS B. RODRIGUEZ


EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Third Regular Session

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Introduced by Representative Rufus B. Rodriguez

House Bill No.10592

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
(TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN BARANGAY AGUSAN, CAGAYAN
DE ORO CITY, TO BE KNOWN AS THE BARANGAY AGUSAN, CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY
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 "Barangay Agusan, Cagayan de Oro
City TESDA Training and Assessment Center Act".

SEC. 2. Establishment — There is hereby established a training and assessment center, under
the supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the Barangay Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City
TESDA Training and Assessment Center. It shall be located in a highly accessible area in
Barangay Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City, pursuant to the purposes of this Act and to the
agreement between the TESDA and the concemed local government units (LGUs).

SEC. 3. General Mandate ~ The Barangay Agusan, 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, in Barangay Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City, 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 Barangay Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City into a human resource
and productivity hubs.

The Center shall 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 the TESDA.

SEC. 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 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


towards the acquisition by residents of practical livelihood, employable skills, gainful
employment, and entrepreneurial capabilities in Barangay Agusan, Cagayan de Oro City.

The Center shall offer the following TVET programs with competencies assessment
leading to National Certification Levels I-IIl

(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, agri-aqua trade technology and innovations, and
relevant farmers and fisherfolk’s trainings 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;

(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;

() Computer literacy and information technology-related skills, digital technology, web
design, animation, photoshop/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 Cagayan
de Oro City and of the other provinces in Region 10 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 Center 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 Center has satisfactorily complied with the minimum standards of quality prescribed by
JTESDA 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 (ASEAN) integration and the Philippine Qualification
Framework for PIET; and e) compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and
standards, as may be necessary and applicable in establishing a Center.


SEC. 6. Administration. — 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 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 Center, the funding of which shall be included in the annual
General Appropriations Act.

‘The LGUs concemed, 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. 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, the 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.

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 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,