Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
15 Regular Session

6851

House Bill No.

Introduced by Representative ERIC GO YAP

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Republic Act No. 7796, also known as the Technical Education and Skills
Development Act of 1994, provides that the State shall “provide relevant, accessible, high
quality, and efficient technical education and skills development in support of the development
of high quality Filipino middle-level manpower responsive to and in accordance with
Philippine development goals and priorities.”

This measure forwards the creation of a TESDA Training and Assessment
Center in each of the Municipality in the Province of Benguet, namely: Atok, Bakun,
Bokod, Buguias, Itogon, Kabayan, Kapangan, Kibungan, La Trinidad, Mankayan,
Sablan, Tuba, and Tublay. These training centers shall provide technical and
vocational training skills development programs to low-income families, out-of-
school youth, people with disabilities, and indigenous peoples residing in the
Province of Benguet and in the rest of the neighboring localities in the Cordillera.

Through the establishment of a TESDA Center in every Municipality in the
province, learners will be equipped with basic practical knowledge and technical
expertise they can use to be self-reliant, productive, and employable. With their
enhanced capacities, they build up their communities to be more efficient and
progressive.

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

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ERIC GO YAP


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City, Metro Manila

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
1 Regular Session

6851
House Bill No.

Introduced by Representative ERIC GO YAP

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTERS IN THE
MUNICIPALITIES OF ATOK, BAKUN, BOKOD, BUGUIAS, ITOGON,
KABAYAN, KAPANGAN, KIBUNGAN, LA TRINIDAD, MANKAYAN, SABLAN,
TUBA, AND TUBLAY, PROVINCE OF BENGUET, 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 “Benguet Province
TESDA Training and Assessment Centers Act”.

SEC. 2. Establishment. - There is hereby established a Technical Education and
Skills Development Authority (TESDA) training and assessment center in the
Municipalities of Atok, Bakun, Bokod, Buguias, Itogon, Kabayan, Kapangan,
Kibungan, La Trinidad, Mankayan, Sablan, Tuba, and Tublay, Province of Benguet,
under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known individually as follows:

a.) Atok, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;
b,) Bakun, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;

c.) Bokod, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;

d.) Buguias, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;
e.) Itogon, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;

f) Kabayan, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;
g,) Kapangan, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;

h.) Kibungan, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;


i) La Trinidad, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;
j) Mankayan, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;
k,) Sablan, Benguet Training and Assessment Center;

1) Tuba, Benguet Training and Assessment Center; and
m.) Tublay, Benguet Training and Assessment Center.

They shall be established in a highly accessible locations in the thirteen (13)
municipalities in the Province of Benguet, pursuant to the purposes of this Act, and to
the agreement between of the TESDA and the concerned local government units
(LGUs).

SEC. 3. General Mandate. - The aforementioned TESDA Training and
Assessment Centers, hereinafter referred to as the Centers, 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 Municipalities of Atok, Bakun, Bokod,
Buguias, Itogon, Kabayan, Kapangan, Kibungan, La Trinidad, Mankayan, Sablan,
Tuba, and Tublay, Province of Benguet and the rest of the neighboring localities in
the Cordillera, to help them become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive
labor assets.

The Centers shall provide effective employment interventions through training
programs on relevant skills trade competencies, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship
activities that will help hasten the development of the host area and the adjacent
localities in the Province of Benguet into human resource and productivity hubs.

The Centers shall each serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for
acquired competencies in TVET programs in the Province of Benguet. They shall,
respectively, provide teachers’ training 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 Centers 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 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 Centers 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 Centers
geared towards the acquisition of practical livelihood, employable skills, gainful
employment, and entrepreneurship in priority areas in the Municipalities of Atok,
Bakun, Bokod, Buguias, Itogon, Kabayan, Kapangan, Kibungan, La Trinidad,
Mankayan, Sablan, Tuba, and Tublay, Province of Benguet and the rest of the
neighboring localities in the Cordillera.

The Centers 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, agri-aqua trade
technology and innovations, and relevant farmers and fisherfolk’s trainings for
increased productivity and entrepreneurship;

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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 use of social media business marketing;

°)

Technical-vocational occupation and trades skills such as carpentry, masonry,
plumbing, welding, practical electricity and installation, automotive servicing,


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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;

Social communication skills and language proficiency courses in English and
other languages for business process outsourcing employment and overseas
job placement;

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

Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of
the Province of Benguet and the rest of the neighboring localities in the
Cordillera, 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 Centers 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 Centers have individually and satisfactorily
complied with the minimum standards of quality prescribed by the TESDA governing
the following:

a) Standard procedures and gui

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d)

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‘lines for the establishment and operation of a
Center;

Operational sustainability of the Centers, in terms of licensed faculty-trainers
and personnel, equipment, training and laboratory facilities, instructional
materials, and other standard requirements of a Center;

Sustainable funding source and allocation of the budgetary requirement;

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 TVET; and

Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and standards, as may be
necessary and applicable in establishing a Center.


SEC. 6. Administration. - The Centers shall each be headed by a Technical-
Vocational Administrator, under the supervision of the TESDA, who shall render full-
time service and be responsible for the Centers’ respective administration and
operation.

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 for 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 Centers, the funding of which shall be
included in the annual General Appropriations Act.

The LGUs concerned, 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 Centers 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 localities,
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,