Republic of the Philippines 
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. _______ 
INTRODUCED BY  
REP. ALFRED VARGAS 
AN ACT  
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER 
IN BARANGAY STA. LUCIA, QUEZON CITY, AND 
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
Article XIV, Section 1 of the Constitution provides 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.” 
The Constitution further mandates that the State establish, maintain, and 
support a complete, adequate, and integrated system of education relevant 
to the needs of the people and society. 
Access to education is the foundation of the human capital of any 
country. It shall be made inclusive and afforded to all Filipinos to enhance, 
cultivate, and formalize their skills to be utilized for their livelihood and for 
their locality’s economic growth. 
One of the major strengths of the Fifth District of Quezon City is its 
youthful and reliable working population. This human capital currently 
dominates the demographic profile of the area and are equally deserving of 
vast opportunities such as livelihood and skills and competencies trainings. 
Through a Training Center under the tutelage of the Technical 
Education Skill Development Authority (TESDA) Training, we aim to utilize 
the growing potential of the District’s youth and working population for 
economic development. 
June 17, 2021
1:00 pm
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This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills 
Development Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in Brgy. 
Sta. Lucia, Quezon City. This measure will ensure that residents and most 
especially out-of-school youths in the area and nearby localities are provided 
access to technical and vocational education for employment. 
In view of the foregoing, the immediate passage of this bill is 
earnestly sought.
ALFRED VARGAS 


Republic of the Philippines
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS 
Second Regular Session 
House Bill No. _______ 
INTRODUCED BY  
REP. ALFRED VARGAS 
AN ACT  
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER 
IN BARANGAY STA. LUCIA, QUEZON CITY, 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 “Barangay 
Sta. Lucia 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 Brgy. Sta. Lucia, Quezon City, under the supervision 
of the TESDA. It shall be established in a highly accessible location in Brgy. 
Sta. Lucia, Quezon City, 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 Barangay Sta. Lucia 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 low-income families, and out-of-school 
youths, including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples, in 
Quezon City and the neighboring localities and the National Capital Region 
(NCR), to help them become productive, self-reliant, and globally competitive 
labor assets. 
The Center shall provide effective employment interventions through 
the training programs on relevant skills trade competencies, craftmanship, 
and entrepreneurship activities that will help hasten the development of 
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Brgy. Sta. Lucia, Quezon City and its adjacent localities into human 
resource and productivity hubs. 
 
 
The Center shall serve as TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for 
acquired competencies in TVET programs in Brgy. Sta. Lucia, Quezon City, 
neighboring barangays and cities in the NCR. It shall also provide teacher’s 
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 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 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 Brgy. Sta. Lucia, Quezon City and 
neighboring barangays and cities in the NCR. 
 
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 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 
acquaculture-related 
trainings 
and 
skills 
development in such areas as farming technology, fishing 
operations 
technology, 
backyard 
farming 
and 
home-based 
acquaculture 
and 
propagation 
innovations, 
operations, 
agribusiness, agri-aqua trade technology and innovations, and 
relevant farmers and fisherfolk’s training 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, 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 
trade 
skills 
such 
as 
carpentry, masonry, plumbing, welding, practical electricity and 
installation, automotive servicing, electronics 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 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, and work ethic and values; and 
(i) Other preferred skills and trades training that may be needed by 
the people of Quezon City and the other cities in the NCR 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 standards of quality prescribed by 
the TESDA governing the following; 
(a) Standard procedures and guidelines for the establishment and 
operation of the 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 all 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 Southeast 
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. 
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 its 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 
a 
counterpart 
agencies 
or 
instrumentalities and persons, subject to approval of the TESDA Director 
General, for such assistance as may be necessary to effectively implement 
this Act. 
SECTION 7. Appropriations. – The TESDA Director General 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. 
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 of this Act. 
 
SECTION 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 hereof shall not be affected and shall thereby 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 hereby 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,