HB1611
Human Resource Management, Department of; hiring on the basis of direct experience.
Status:
Enacted
Latest Action:
March 24, 2025
Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475)
Chief Patron:
Joshua Cole (D)
Session:
2025 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Department of Human Resource Management; hiring on the basis of direct experience.
Prohibits any state agency from requiring as a condition of eligibility for hire to a position in state employment that an applicant have a baccalaureate degree. The bill provides an exception to such prohibition if the knowledge, skills, or abilities required for the position for which an applicant is applying ... (More) can only reasonably be obtained, as determined by the appointing authority, through a course of study in pursuit of, and culminating in the award of, a baccalaureate degree. This bill is identical to SB 1014. (Less)-
Bill History
- 01/03/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100114D
- 01/03/2025 - House: Referred to Committee on General Laws
- 01/27/2025 - House: Assigned GL sub: Professions/Occupations and Administrative Process
- 01/27/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 01/28/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1611)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (8-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Placed on General Laws Agenda
- 01/30/2025 - House: Incorporates HB2572(Leftwich)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Reported from General Laws with substitute (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/30/2025 - House: Committee substitute printed 25106595D-H1
- 02/02/2025 - House: Read first time
- 02/03/2025 - House: Read second time
- 02/03/2025 - House: General Laws Substitute agreed to
- 02/03/2025 - House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute
- 02/04/2025 - House: Read third time and passed House (97-Y 0-N)
- 02/04/2025 - House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 02/04/2025 - House: Passed House (99-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1611)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/05/2025 - Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 02/12/2025 - Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology (12-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (36-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/2025 - Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Read third time
- 02/17/2025 - Senate: Passed Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Enrolled
- 02/19/2025 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB1611ER)
- 02/19/2025 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/20/2025 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB1611)
- 02/22/2025 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/03/2025 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 3, 2025
- 03/03/2025 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
- 03/24/2025 - Approved by Governor-Chapter 475 (Effective 07/01/25)
- 03/24/2025 - Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0475)
