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Quezon City
Eighteenth Congress
Second Regular Session
House Bill No: g 7.88

Introduced by REP. MERCEDES C. CAGAS

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill seeks to create the Technical Education And Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
Training Center in the province of Davao del Sur to be located at Digos City and to be known as
Davao del Sur TESDA Training and Assessment Center.

The Lone District of Davao del Sure comprises of nine municipalities and one component city.
The Center shall be a source of the required skills, knowledge and technology to drive productivity
in industries within the province, and consequently the entire nation for sustained economic

growth.

More than increasing global competitiveness, the establishment of the Center shall pursue the
principle of social inclusion by ensuring equity in terms of giving access to high quality and
relevant technical and vocational education and training. The Center shall pursue greater number
of beneficiaries by catering not only to those who are willing to learn skills to increase their
qualifications in securing a job, but most importantly to the socially excluded and displaced
individuals such as the informal workers, indigenous peoples, farmers and fisherfolks, drug
dependent, abuse victims, out-of-school youths, solo parents, persons with disability and other
marginalized members of our society.

The Center shall aim to uplift the socioeconomic status of the disadvantaged by providing
opportunities to develop themselves to be self-reliant and productive members of the community
for their employment and income-generation.

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

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Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City
Eighteenth Congress
Second Regular Session

House Bill No: 878g

Introduced by REP, MERCEDES C. CAGAS

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TECHNICAL
EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (TESDA)
TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE LONE DISTRICT OF
DAVAO DEL SUR, WHICH SHALL BE LOCATED IN THE MUNICIPALITY
OF DIGOS, PROVINCE OF DAVAO DEL SUR AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
THEREFORE

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

SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the “Davao del Sur TESDA Training and
Assessment Center Act.”

SECTION 2. There is hereby established under the supervision of the Department of Labor
and Employment (DOLE), a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA)
Training and Assessment Center in the Lone District of Davao del Sur, to be located in the
Municipality of Digos, Province of Davao del Sur.

SECTION 3. The Davao del Sur TESDA Training and Assessment Center shall primarily
provide technical and vocational training and skills development programs to informal workers,
indigenous peoples, farmers and fisherfolks, drug dependent, abuse victims, out-of-school youths,
solo parents, persons with disability and other marginalized sectors in the Province of Davao del
Sur.

SECTION 4. The TESDA in coordination with the DOLE shall formulate the necessary
Implementing Rules and Regulations that shall govern the implementation of this Act.

SECTION 5. The amount necessary for the effective implementation of this Act shall be
included in the General Appropriations Act on the year following the approval of this act and every
year thereafter.

SECTION 6. Separability Clause: If, for any reason, any section of this Act shall be deemed
unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provision thereof shall not be affected thereby and
shall remain in force and effect.


SECTION 7. Repealing Clause: All laws, executive orders, decrees, instructions, rules and
regulations, contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act are hereby repealed or
modified accordingly.

SECTION 8. Effectivity: This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after publication in
the Official gazette or in two (2) national newspaper of general circulation.

Approved,