Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. _____ 
Introduced by Representative SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill was originally filed as House Bill No. 5856 in the 18th Congress on 
Decemer 18, 2019 and was substituted by House Bill No. 7359 on August 12, 2020. 
This measure was approved by the House on September 7, 2020 and was 
transmitted to Senate on September 9, 2020.  
This legislative measure proposes for the establishment of a Technical 
Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment 
Center in the Municipality of Mayoyao, Ifugao province to be known as the Ifugao 
Province TESDA Training and Assessment Center.  
Section 17, Article II of the 1987 Constitution mandates the State to give 
priority to education, science and technology, culture, and sports to foster 
patriotism and nationalism, accelerate social progress, and promote total human 
liberation and development.  
Relatively, Section 1, Article XIV clearly states 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.  In context with 
these constitutional provisions, it is apparent that the State has the obligation to 
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ensure that quality education be accessible and be afforded to all citizens not just 
for economic function but also for socio-cultural aspirations. 
Ifugao is located at the foot of the Cordillera Mountain Ranges. It is bounded 
on the west by Benguet, on the south by Nueva Vizcaya, on the east by Isabela and 
on the north by Mt. Province. It is generally located at 120 degrees 40'17" 
longitude. Ifugao is politically divided into 11 municipalities and 175 barangays 
with the municipality of Lagawe as its capital.  Although there are two (2) district 
engineering offices in Ifugao, the geographic terrain still poses challenges to travel 
from one place to another in the province. Some areas can hardly be reached due 
to road conditions frequently affected by landslides and soil erosions. 
Moreover, the province has struggled through the years to deal with its 
internal challenges that hindered its progress and development. Poverty, literacy, 
and employment have been rampant to many areas of the province which are 
entirely solvable with education and livelihood opportunities. The degrading 
status of the famous rice terraces and the fading indigeneity of crucial dimensions 
of the Ifugao material culture also become critical. 
It is then deemed necessary that a facilitated training and education be 
afforded to Ifugaos to enhance and to formalize their skills that may be utilized 
for livelihood and employment purposes. The Ifugao people are famed for their 
sculpture, weaving, painting, engineering, and other creative skills that would, if 
administered and certified by TESDA, be instrumental for them to pursue 
employment essential to elevate their status of life. This proposed establishment 
of training and assessment center would give many unemployed but skilled 
Ifugaos an opportunity to secure jobs and to enter in a profitable enterprise that 
would help solve the economic conditions of the province. 
The proposed conversion arises out of extreme necessity and urgency. 
In view of the foregoing premises, immediate enactment of this bill is 
earnestly sought. 
ATTY. SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO 


Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
House Bill No. _____ 
Introduced by Representative SOLOMON R. CHUNGALAO 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE 
MUNICIPALITY OF MAYOYAO, PROVINCE OF IFUGAO, TO BE KNOWN AS 
THE MAYOYAO, IFUGAO PROVINCE 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 “Mayoyao, Ifugao 
Province TESDA Training and Assessment Center Act”. 
SEC. 2. Establishment. – There is hereby established a Technical Education 
and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) training and assessment center in the 
Municipality of Mayoyao, Province of Ifugao under the supervision of the TESDA, 
to be known as the Mayoyao, Ifugao Province TESDA Training and Assessment 
Center. It shall be located in a highly accessible location in the Municipality of 
Mayoyao, Provine of Ifugao, pursuant to the purpose of this Act and to the 
agreement between the TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs). 
SEC. 3. General Mandate. – The Mayoyao, Ifugao Province TESDA 
Training and Assessment Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall 
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primarily provide technical-vocation 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 Municipality of 
Mayoyao and the neighboring localities in the Province of Ifugao, 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 the host area and 
the adjacent localities in the Province of Ifugao into human resource and 
productivity hubs.  
 
The Center shall serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for 
acquired competencies in TVET programs in the Municipality of Mayoyao and 
adjacent localities in the Province of Ifugao. It shall also provide technical-
vocational training for teachers and curriculum design assistance to 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 priority areas in the municipality of Mayoyao and neighboring 
localities in the Province of Ifugao. 
 
The Center shall offer the following TVET 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, 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 training and skills development in 
such areas as farming-fishing operations technology, backyard farming 
and home-based aquaculture and propagation innovation, mechanized 
farm and fishing tools and equipment operation, agribusiness, agri-aqua 
trade technology and innovations, and relevant farmers and fisherfolks’ 
training for increased productivity and entrepreneurship; 
c. Livelihood skills development courses for preferred skills employment 
and small-scale entrepreneurship, including practical skills education in 
crafts and arts, 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, 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 trade skills such as carpentry, 
masonry, plumbing, welding, practical electricity and installation, 
automotive servicing, electronics servicing, basic personal computer 
servicing, and such other relevant practical skills courses; 
f. 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 
overseas job placement; 
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. 
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  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, and instructional materials, and other standard requirements of a 
Center; (c) sustainable funding source and allocation for 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 TVET; 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 concerned, in consultation with the TESDA, shall set aside from 
any available local revenue an amount deemed appropriate as annual counterpart 
find 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 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,