Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.,  
HON. MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE, HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. 
HORIBATA AND HON. NICOLAS ENCISO VIII 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority 
(TESDA) Training Center in the Municipality of Minalabac, Province of Camarines Sur. 
The same bill has passed the third reading during the 17th Congress, and aims to 
serve 25 barangays in Minalabac. 
In establishing a vocational and technical skills center, we are providing windows of 
opportunities for people under the care of our education system. The center will not 
only cater to the youth sector, but to everyone willing and able to learn skills that they 
need in order to work locally and abroad. Accessible and high-quality technical 
education and skills development centers will help the country produce self-reliant and 
able workers. 
This bill hopes to stimulate technical and vocational skills as an element of our 
economic progress. It hopes to uplift the lives of the Filipino people by giving them 
chances to acquire quality education without the economic constraints. With the proper 
infrastructure and sustained training programs available in our education system, we 
are able to provide opportunities for our constituents to help themselves and make 
them employable. 
In view of the foregoing, approval of this bill is earnestly sought. 
LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR. 
 MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE 
TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. HORIBATA 
NICOLAS ENCISO VIII 
July 7, 2022
1:12 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. ____ 
Introduced by HON. LUIS RAYMUND “LRAY” F. VILLAFUERTE, JR.,  
HON. MIGUEL LUIS R. VILLAFUERTE, HON. TSUYOSHI ANTHONY G. 
HORIBATA AND HON. NICOLAS ENCISO VIII 
AN ACT  
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE 
MUNICIPALITY OF MINALABAC, PROVINCE OF CAMARINES SUR, TO BE 
KNOWN AS THE MINALABAC 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 “Minalabac TESDA Training 
and Assessment Center Act”. 
SECTION 2. Establishment. – There is hereby established a Technical Education 
and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in the 
Municipality of Minalabac, Province of Camarines Sur, under the supervision of the 
TESDA, to be known as the Minalabac TESDA Training and Assessment Center. It 
shall be established in a highly accessible location in the Municipality of Minalabac, 
Province of Camarines Sur, pursuant to the purposes of this Act and to the mutual 
agreement between the TESDA and the concerned local government units (LGUs). 
SECTION 3. General Mandate. – The Minalabac TESDA Training and Assessment 
Center, hereinafter referred to as the Center, 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 Municipality of Minalabac and the rest of the adjacent 
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localities, to help them become productive, self-reliant and globally competitive labor 
assets. 
The Center shall offer training programs on relevant skills trade competencies, 
craftsmanship, and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the effective 
employment interventions that will hasten the development of the host area and 
adjacent localities in the Province of Camarines Sur into human resource and 
productivity hubs. 
The Center shall also serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for 
acquired competencies in TVET programs in the Municipality of Minalabac and other 
municipalities of the Province of Camarines Sur. It shall also provide teachers' training 
and curriculum design assistance to the secondary schools offering the technical-
vocational livelihood (TVL) track under the K to 12 Program in coordination with the 
Department of Education (DepEd) and the TESDA. 
 
SECTION 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 such 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, employable skills, gainful 
employment, and entrepreneurship in priority areas in the Municipality of Minalabac 
and other municipalities of the Province of Camarines Sur. 
The Center shall offer the following TVET programs with competencies 
assessment leading to National Certification Levels I-III: 
 


 
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(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 tools and equipment operation, agribusiness, agri-aqua 
trade technology and innovations, and relevant farmers and fisherfolk's 
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 training; 
 
(d) Basic business literacy training in financial management, 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; 
 
(e) Technical-vocational occupation and trades skills such as carpentry, 
masonry, plumbing, welding, practical electricity and installation, automotive 
servicing, electronics servicing, personal computer (PC) servicing, and such 
other relevant practical skills courses; 
 


 
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(f) Computer literacy and information technology (IT)-related skills, digital 
technology, web design, animation, photoshop/online photography, computer 
design, and advertising; 
 
(g) Social communication skills development and language proficiency 
courses in English and other languages for business process outsourcing 
employment and overseas job placement; 
 
(h) Seminars on personality development, career counseling and job 
placement, work ethic and values; and 
 
(i) Other preferred priority skills and trades training that may be needed by the 
people of the Municipality of Minalabac and other municipalities of the 
Province of Camarines Sur 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 Center 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 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, instructional 
materials, and other standard requirements of a Center; 
 
(c) Sustainable funding source and allocation of budget requirement; 
 
(d) Assurance that the training programs offered are fully aligned with the 
minimum standards of competency-based quality technical-vocational skills 
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in the context of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) 
Integration and the Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF) for TVET; and 
 
(e) Compliance with such other TESDA conditionalities and standards as may 
be necessary and applicable in establishing a Center. 
 
SECTION 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 the administration and operation of the Center. 
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, subject to the approval of the TESDA Director General, for such assistance 
as may be necessary to effectively implement this Act. 
 
SECTION 7. Appropriations. – The amount necessary to implement the provisions 
of this Act, and its continued implementation thereafter, shall be included in the annual 
General Appropriations Act. 
The concerned LGUs 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 Minalabac TESDA Training and Assessment Center 
herein established. 
 
SECTION 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, 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 
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SECTION 9. Separability Clause. – If, for any reason, any section of this Act shall be 
deemed unconstitutional or invalid, the other sections or provisions hereof shall not be 
affected and shall remain in force and effect. 
 
SECTION 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. 
 
SECTION 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,