EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
Second Regular Session 
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S.B. No.
SENATE 
1626
Introduced by SENATOR IMEE R. MARCOS
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AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS 
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) MAN POWER DEVELOPMENT 
TRAINING CENTER IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MAYOYAO, PROVINCE OF 
IFUGAO, TO BE KNOWN AS THE MAYOYAO TESDA TRAINING AND
ASSESSMENT CENTER
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Article XIV, Section 1 of the Constitution provides that "the State shall protect and 
promote the right of all citizens to quality education at all levels and shall take 
appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all." The Constitution further 
mandates that the State establish, maintain and support a complete, adequate, and 
integrated system of education relevant to the needs of the people and society.
The availability or access to education is the foundation of the development of 
the human capital of any country. The quality of a country's human capital, which is 
nurtured through education, determines the course of its national development. 
Likewise, access to education should be inclusive and should be afforded to the 
Ifugaos to enhance and to formalize their skills to be used for their livelihood and for 
their locality's economic growth.
This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development 
Authority (TESDA) Manpower Development Center in the municipality of Mayoyao, 
Ifugao.
Given the abovementioned circumstances, the immediate passage of this bill is 
earnestly sought.
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IMEE R. MARCOS
Senator


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EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE) 
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES ) 
Second Regular Session 
)
SENATE 
S.B. No. 1626
Introduced by SENATOR IMEE R. MARCOS
DATE
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AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS 
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA) MAN POWER DEVELOPMENT 
TRAINING CENTER IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MAYOYAO, PROVINCE OF 
IFUGAO, TO BE KNOWN AS THE MAYOYAO TESDA TRAINING AND
ASSESSMENT CENTER
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines 
Congress assembled:
Section. 1. Short Tide. - This Act shall be known as the "Mayoyao TESDA 
Training and Assessment Center Act."
Section 2. Establishment - There is hereby established a Technical Education 
and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Manpower Development Training and 
Assessment Center in Barangay Mongol, Municipality of Mayoyao, in the Province of 
Ifugao, under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the Mayoyao TESDA 
Training and Assessment Center.
Section 3. General Mandate. - The Mayoyao TESDA Training and Assessment 
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 dropouts and persons 
with disabilities, in the municipality of Mayoyao, and other adjacent localities in the 
Province of Ifugao, geared towards the acquisition of practical livelihood, employable 
skills, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship.
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 international 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, available resources, presence of support structures, including the 
literacy level and skills readiness, and the overall development within the host areas 
and adjacent communities within the operational radius of the Center established


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herein. The Center shall also consider the relevant skills trade competencies, 
craftmanship training programs, and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the 
effective employment and development Interventions required to make these areas as 
human resource and productivity hubs.
The Center shall also serve as TESDA-accredited assessment centers for 
acquired competencies in technical-vocational skills. Preference In admission shall be 
given to the most disadvantaged citizens, including persons with disabilities, and to 
the most economically depressed areas of the municipality of Mayoyao and other 
adjacent localities in the Province of Ifugao with the highest percentage of 
disadvantaged and indigent citizens.
The Center shall, in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) 
and the TESDA, offer relevant teachers' training assistance and curriculum design to 
the secondary schools providing the technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) track under 
the K to 12 Program of the DepEd.
Section 4. Training Programs. - The Center shall offer diverse short-term 
certificate courses and modular trainings in relevant technical-vocational skills and 
trade specialization to comply with employment standards in preferred and emerging 
market-driven labor opportunities, and shall likewise give premium efforts to skills 
specialization for the local market employment requirements geared towards achieving 
the development of a robust inclusive economy within the host areas 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), the Department 
of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the 
Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), the National Economic and 
Development Authority (NEDA), business-industry partners, and such other relevant 
agencies, both local and international.
The Center may establish research and technology hubs, technology 
development farms, mobile training programs, and satellite or extension training 
centers in priority areas throughout the Province of Ifugao within the service radius of 
the Center to strengthen linkages among the industry, the academe and the Center.
To address the development and manpower needs of the municipality of 
Mayoyao and the other adjacent localities in the Province of Ifugao, the Center shall 
offer the following TESDA-registered technical-vocational training programs with 
competencies assessment leading to National Certification Levels I-III:
a. Skills training in industrial technology and hard trade such as metal and steel 
works, machine fabrication and operation, heavy equipment operation, 
automative 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 training and skjlls development in such 
areas as farming-fishing operations technology, backyard farming and home- 
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tools and equipment operation, agribusiness, agri-aqua trade technology and 
innovations, and relevant farmers and fisherfolks' continuing training for 
increased productivity and entrepreneurship;
c. Social communication skills development, language proficiency courses in 
English and other languages for business process outsourcing employment such 
as call center and overseas job placement;
d. 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, cosmetology, health and 
wellness training;
e. Basic business literacy training and 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;
f. Technical-vocational occupation and trade skills such as carpentry, masonry, 
plumbing, welding, practical electricity and installation, automotive servicing, 
electronics servicing, basic personal computer (PC) troubleshooting and 
servicing, and such other relevant practical skills courses;
g. Computer literacy and information technology (IT)-related skills, digital 
technology, web design, animation, photoshop/online photography, computer 
design and advertising;
h. Seminars in personality development, career counseling and job-placement, 
and work ethic and values; and
i. other preferred priority skills and trade training that may be utilized by the 
people of the municipality of Mayoyao and other localities In the province of 
Ifugao, 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 Mayoyao 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 individually and satisfactorily complied with the minimum requirements for quality 
standards prescribed by the TESDA governing the following competency assessment:
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Standard procedures and guidelines (SPGs) for the establishment and operation 
of a TESDA-accredited training and assessment center;
Operational sustainability of the Center established herein, such as licensed- 
faculty trainers and personnel, equipment, and training and laboratory facilities, 
and instructional materials;
Sustainable funding source and allocation for the budgetary requirement of the 
Center herein established;
Assurance that the training programs offered are fully aligned with the 
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technology and the needs of the host site and adjacent localities served in the
context of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Philippine
Qualifications Framework (PFQ) for technical-vocational education; and 
e. Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and standards, as may be
necessary and applicable.
Section 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 of the Center shall be appointed by the 
TESDA Director General in accordance with Civil Service Commission rules and 
regulation and the qualification requirements for such office.
The Technical-Vocational Administrator of the Center shall enter into mutual 
agreements with locally-based private and public counterpart agencies or 
instrumentalities and persons, subject to approval of the TESDA Director General, for 
such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement this Act.
Section 7. Appropriations. - The Director General of the TESDA shall include in 
the Authority's program the implementation of this Act, the funding of which shall be 
included in the annual General Appropriations Act. The LGUs concerned, in 
consultation with the TESDA, shall likewise set aside from available local revenue an 
amount deemed appropriate as annual counterpart fund to support the operation of 
the Center established herein.
Section 8. Impiementing Ruies andReguiations. - Within ninety (90) days after 
the approval of this Act, the TESDA, in coordination with the DOLE, the DTI, the DOST, 
the NEDA, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the DILG, the 
concerned LGU, and such other relevant agencies and industry-business partners of 
the host locality shall prepare and issue the necessary rules and regulations for the 
implementation of this Act.
Section 9. Separabiiity Clause. - If any provision of this Act is declared invalid 
or unconstitutional, the other provisions not affected thereby shall continue to be in 
full force and effect.
SEC. 12. Repealing Clause. - All other laws, decrees, orders, rules and 
regulations, other issuances, or parts thereof inconsistent with the provisions of this 
Act are hereby repealed or modified accordingly.
SEC. 13. Effectivity. -This Act shall take effect immediately after its publication 
In the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation.
Approved,