Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Quezon City

TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL no, 1872

Introduced by: HONORABLE ROSEMARIE CONEJOS PANOTES

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Even before the pandemic as a consequence of the unabated transmission of Covidl9
worldwide, the unemployment rate in the Philippines continues to plunge to a significantly
diminishing trend. This situation has greatly contributed to a growing mismatch in employment
position and educational background that have become a norm and no longer a special case. The
relevant programs and skills trade competencies, craftmanship and entrepreneurship activities will
certainly become an effective employment interventions in this situation.

This bill therefore seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development
Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in the Second Legislative District of the
Province of Camarines Norte to be specifically located at the Municipality of Daet, the Capital
Town of the Province, to be known as the Camarines Norte TESDA Training and Assessment
Center.

The establishment of a TESDA Training and Assessment Center will primarily provide
technical-vocational education and training (TVET) programs to students, local residents from low
income families, out-of-school youths, including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples
in the area and neighboring localities in the Province of Camarines Norte in order to help them
become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive labor assets.

The favorable consideration therefore of this important piece of legislation will certainly
help the residents in this province and its environs, specially the poor, find a better employment

alternative that will alleviate their plight.
nose VE vores

Representative
Second District, Camarines Norte


Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

TWENTIETH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 1872

Introduced by: HONORABLE ROSEMARIE C. PANOTES.

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE
MUNICIPALITY OF DAET, PROVINCE OF CAMARINES NORTE TO BE KNOWN AS
THE CAMARINES NORTE TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, AND
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR

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

SECTION 1. Short Title. ~ This Act shall be known as the “Camarines Norte 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 Daet,
Province of Camarines Norte to be known as the Camarines Norte TESDA Training and
‘Assessment Center. It shall be established in a highly accessible location in the Municipality of
Daet, Province of Camarines Norte, pursuant to the purpose of this Act and to the mutual
agreement between the TESDA and the concemed local government units (LGUs).

SEC. 3. General Mandate. — The Camarines Norte TESDA Training and Assessment
Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational education
and training (TVET) programs to students, local residents from lower income families, and out-
of-school youths, including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, in the Province of
Camarines Norte and other neighboring localities in the Bicol Region to help them become
productive, self-reliant and globally competitive labor assets.

The Center shall offer training programs on relevant skills trade competencies,
craftmanship, and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the effective employment
interventions that will hasten the development of the host area and the adjacent localities in the
Province of Camarines Norte into human resource and productivity hubs.

The Center shall serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired
competencies in TVET programs in the Province of Camarines Norte and adjacent localities in the
Bicol Region. It shall also 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 (DepEd) and TESDA.

SEC. 4. Training Programs. ~ The Center shall offer short-term certificate courses and
modular trainings in preferred technical-vocational skills and trade specialization. Toward 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, and promote mobile training programs to strengthen linkages
among the industry partners, the academe, and the Center geared towards the acquisition of
practical livelihood, enjoyable skills, gainful employment and entrepreneurship in priority areas in
the Province of Camarines Norte and neighboring localities in the Bicol Region.

The Center shall offer the following TVET programs with competencies assessment
leading to the 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, agri-business, agri-aqua trade technology and innovations, and
relevant farmers and  fisherfolks’ trainings for increased productivity and
entrepreneurship;

(c) 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 trainin

(d) Basic business literacy training in financial management, marketing, practical
accountancy, bookkeeping, 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, on-line home-based business operation, and use
of 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 on personality development, career counselling, job placement, and work
ethic and values, and

(i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by the people of the
Province of Camarines Norte and adjacent localities in the Bicol Region 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 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 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, instructional materials, and other standard requirements of a Center; c) sustainable
funding source and allocation of the budgetary requirement; d) assurance that the training
programs offered are fully aligned with the minimum standards of competency-based quality
technical-vocational skills technology and the needs of the host area and adjacent communities
served in the context of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Integration and the
Philippine Qualifications 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, under the supervision of the TESDA, who shall render full-time service and be
responsible for its administration and operation.

The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall be appointed by the TESDA Director
General in accordance with the rules and regulation of the Civil Service Commission and the
qualification requirements for such office.

The Technical-Vocational Administrator shall enter into agreement with locally-based
private and public counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons, subject to the approval of
the TESDA Director General, for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement
this Act.

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 fund to support the operation
of the Center herein established.

SEC. & Implementing Rules and Regulations. — Within ninety (90) days after the
effectivity of this Act, the TESDA shall, in coordination with DOLE, DTI, DOST, DA, DILG,
NEDA, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), the concerned LGUs, and such other
necessary rules and regulations for the effective implementation of this Act.

SEC. 9. Separability Clause.- \f, for any reason, any section or provision of this Act shall
be declared unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof shall not be affected
and shall remain in force and in effect.

SEC. 10. Repealing Clause. ~ All laws, decrees, executive orders, rules and regulations
contrary to or inconsistent with any provision of this Act are hereby 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 application.

Approved,