Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
First Regular Session

HOUSE BILL NO. 5533

Introduced by: REP. RUTH MARIANO-HERNANDEZ

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This bill aims to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
(TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in the City of Cabuyao, Province of Laguna, to
be known as the Cabuyao City TESDA Training and Assessment Center.

‘The availability of a training center in Cabuyao City will provide high school graduates,
out-of-school-youths and ordinary citizens with the opportunity to acquire skills and
techniques to develop into self-reliant, productive and employable individuals.

‘The proposed Cabuyao City TESDA Training and Assessment Center will cater to the
city’s 18 barangays as well as the neighboring cities and municipalities in the area.

Itis also important to note that the proposed center shall also help upgrade the human
resource base of the more than 100 listed companies in the City, among them being
Nestlé Philippines, Asia Brewery, Inc, Tanduay Distillers, Inc, Wyeth Philippines, Inc.,
Procter & Gamble Philippines, Nutri-Asia, Inc, Ginebra San Miguel Cabuyao, Palmphil
Garments Philippines Corporation, SwissPharma Research Laboratories, Inc, First
Sumiden Circuits, Inc, and Ram Food Products, Inc. It shall also help serve the potential
skilled labor requirements of the Light Industry and Science Park Special Economic
Zone located in the city.

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



Republic of the Philippines
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Quezon City

EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS

First Regular Session

5533
HOUSE BILL NO.

Introduced by: REP. RUTH MARIANO-HERNANDEZ

AN ACT
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER IN THE CITY OF
CABUYAO, PROVINCE OF LAGUNA, TO BE KNOWN AS THE CABUYAO CITY 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 “Cabuyao City TESDA Training
and Assessment Center Act”.

SECTION 2. Establishment. - There is hereby established a Technical Education and
Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Training Center in a highly accessible area in the
City of Cabuyao, Province of Laguna, under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known
as the Cabuyao City TESDA Training Center.

SECTION 3. General Mandate. - The Cabuyao City TESDA Training Center, hereinafter
referred to as the Center, shall primarily provide technical-vocational training and skills
development programs to students and residents from low-income families and out-of-
school youths, including college drop-outs and persons with disabilities (PWDs), in
Cabuyao City and the neighboring communities in the Province of Laguna, geared
towards the acquisition of practical livelihood, employable skills, gainful employment,
and entrepreneurship.

The Center shall help train local residents to become productive, self-reliant and
globally competitive middle to high-level skilled labor force to hasten the social and
economic development of these areas, in particular, and to meet the manpower needs of
both local and international labor markets, in general.

The Center shall consider in the design of relevant technical-vocational training
programs to be offered thereat a competency assessment of the socioeconomic profile,
employment conditions and opportunities, business climate, market and industry
potentials, resources available and presence of support structures, including the

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literacy level and skills readiness, and the overall development needs of the host area
and adjacent communities within the operational radius of the Center established
herein. The Center shall also consider the relevant skills trade competencies,
craftsmanship training programs and entrepreneurship activities needed to deliver the
effective employment and development interventions required to make these areas as
human resource and economic productivity hubs.

The Center shall also serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for acquired
competencies in technical-vocational skills in the City of Cabuyao and other
municipalities of the Province of Laguna.

Preference in admission, however, shall be given to the most disadvantaged citizens,
including PWDs, and to the most economically depressed areas of the City of Cabuyao,
Province of Laguna, within the operational radius of the Center.

The Center shall, in coordination with the Department of Education (DepEd) and the
TESDA, render relevant teachers’ training assistance and curriculum design to the
secondary schools offering technical-vocational livelihood (TVL) track under the K to 12
Program of the DepEd in the City of Cabuyao and the other municipalities in the
Province of Laguna.

SECTION 4. Training Programs - The Center shall offer diverse short-term certificate
courses and modular trainings in relevant technical-vocational skills and trades
specialization to comply with employment standards in preferred market-driven labor
opportunities, but shall likewise give premium efforts to skills specialization for local
market employment requirements geared towards achieving the development needs for
a robust inclusive economy of the host area and each of the adjacent localities and
communities within the operational radius of the Center, in consultation with the
Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), Department of Trade and Industry
(DTI), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG), National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA), business-
industry partners, and such other relevant agencies, both local and international.

The Center may establish, as deemed necessary and practicable, research and
technology hubs, mobile training programs, and satellite or extension training centers
in priority areas throughout the City of Cabuyao within the service radius of the Center
to strengthen linkages among the industry, the academe and the technology centers
thereat.

To address the development and manpower needs of the City of Cabuyao and the other
adjacent localities of the Province of Laguna, the Center shall offer the following TESDA-
registered technical-vocational training programs with competencies assessment
leading to National Certification Levels I-III:

a. Skills training in industrial technology and hard trades 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-related trainings and farm skills development in such areas as
farming technology and farm operations, backyard farming and home-based
aquaculture and propagation innovations, mechanized farm tools and
equipment operations, agribusiness and agri-trade technology and
innovations, and relevant farmers’ trainings 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 designing, high-speed sewing, dressmaking and
tailoring, horticulture, livestock raising and breeding, food processing
technology, home technology, culinary arts and commercial cooking, beauty
culture, and 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, including online home-based business operation and use of
social media business marketing;

fe. Technical-vocational occupation and trades skills such as carpentry,
masonry, plumbing, practical electricity and installation, automotive
servicing, electronics servicing, welding technician, personal computer (PC)
servicing, and such other relevant practical skills courses;

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, language proficiency courses in
English and other language for business process outsourcing (call center)
employment and overseas job placement;

h. Seminars in 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 City of Cabuyao, and relevant as well to the needs of the other
areas in the Province of Laguna, to enhance their capacities for practical
livelihood, gainful employment, and entrepreneurship skills.

SECTION 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 (SPGs) for the establishment and
operation of a Center;

b

operational sustainability of the Center established herein, in terms of
licensed faculty-trainers and personnel, equipment, training and laboratory
facilities, instructional materials, and other standard requirements as a
Center;

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sustainable funding source and allocation of budget requirements of the
Center herein established;

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 ASEAN and Philippine Qualifications Framework (PQF)
for technical-vocational education; 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 services
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 Civil Service rules and regulations and the qualification
requirements for such office.

The Administrator shall enter into mutual agreements with locally-based private and
public counterpart agencies or instrumentalities and persons, subject to approval by 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 LGU, in consultation with the TESDA, shall likewise set aside from any
available local revenue an amount deemed appropriate as annual counterpart fund to
support the operation of the Cabuyao City TESDA Training and Assessment Center
established herein.

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, NEDA,
Department of Budget and Management, DILG, 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 implementation of this Act.

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 thereby remain in force and in affect.

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,