Republic of the Philippines 
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. __________ 
_________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by Representative ED CHRISTOPHER S. GO 
_________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER  
IN SAN MARIANO, PROVINCE OF ISABELA, TO BE KNOWN AS 
THE SAN MARIANO TESDA TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER, 
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
This bill seeks to establish a Technical Education and Skills Development 
Authority (TESDA) Training and Assessment Center in San Mariano, Province of 
Isabela. 
In establishing a vocational and technical skills center, numerous 
windows of opportunity will be opened for people who are in most need for skills 
development and training. The center will cater to the youth sector and to 
everyone else who is willing and able to learn skills that will make them 
employable locally and abroad. With ready access to high-quality technical 
education and skills development center, the 2nd District of Isabela will certainly 
be put in the right position to produce self-reliant, technically proficient, and 
able workers. 
This bill hopes to stimulate economic development in the district by 
providing its people ready access to technical and vocational skills trainings. It 
hopes to uplift the economic condition of the host community by giving its 
residents golden opportunity to acquire quality education without the prohibitive 
cost of traveling far and paying more. With the proper infrastructure and 
sustained training programs available right in our district, we can provide 
opportunities for our constituents to help themselves and to make them 
employable and gainful in all turns. 
In view of the foregoing, the passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
 ED CHRISTOPHER S. GO 
  Representative 
2nd District, Isabela 
August 16, 2022
2:27 pm
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Republic of the Philippines 
House of Representatives 
Quezon City, Metro Manila 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL NO. __________ 
_________________________________________________________ 
Introduced by Representative ED CHRISTOPHER S. GO 
_________________________________________________________ 
AN ACT 
ESTABLISHING A TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
AUTHORITY (TESDA) TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT CENTER  
IN SAN MARIANO, PROVINCE OF ISABELA, TO BE KNOWN AS 
THE SAN MARIANO 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. Establishment of TESDA Center. — There is hereby 
established a Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) 
Training Center in a highly accessible area in San Mariano, Province of Isabela, 
under the supervision of the TESDA, to be known as the San Mariano, Isabela 
TESDA Training Center. 
SEC. 2. General Mandate. — The San Mariano, Isabela 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 youth, including college drop-outs 
and persons with disabilities (PWDs), in San Mariano and the neighboring 
communities in the Province of Isabela, geared towards the acquisition of 
practical 
livelihood, 
employable 
skills, 
gainful 
employment, 
and 
entrepreneurship. 
The Center shall help train 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. 
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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 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 turn these areas into 
human resources and economic productivity hubs. 
The Center shall also serve as a TESDA-accredited Assessment Center for 
acquired competencies in technical-vocational skills in San Mariano and other 
municipalities of the Second District and the Province of Isabela. 
Preference in admission, however, shall be given to the most 
disadvantaged citizens, including PWDs, and to the most economically depressed 
areas of San Mariano, Province of Isabela, 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 San Mariano 
and the other municipalities in the Province of Isabela. 
SEC. 3. Training Programs. — The Center shall offer diverse short-term 
certificate courses and modular trainings in relevant technical-vocational skills 
and trade specializations to comply with employment standards in preferred 
market-driven labor opportunities, but shall likewise put a premium on the 
promotion of 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; Provided, that the Center shall develop 
programs and policies to this end 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 San Mariano 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 San Mariano and the 
other adjacent localities of the Province of Isabela, 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 areas 
such 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 arts and crafts, 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, and online home-based business operation 
and use of social media business marketing; 


e. 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; 
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 trade training that may be 
needed by the people of the Municipality of San Mariano, and relevant as 
well to the needs of the other areas in the Province of Isabela, to enhance 
their capacities for practical livelihoods, gainful employment, and 
entrepreneurship skills. 
SEC. 4. 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; 
c) sustainable funding source and allocation of budget requirement 
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 conditionality’s and standards, as 
may be necessary and applicable, in establishing a Center. 
SEC. 5. 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. 
SEC. 6. 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 Center established herein. 
SEC. 7. 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. 
SEC. 8. 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. 


SEC. 9. 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. 
SEC. 10. Effectivity. — This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its 
publication in the Official Gazette or in a newspaper of general circulation. 
 
Approved,