Virginia House Bill 1611

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-01-03 - Referred to Committee on General Laws
Pending: House General Laws Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Department of Human Resource Management; direct experience recruitment policy. Requires the Department of Human Resource Management to develop a statewide direct experience recruitment policy designed to provide guidance to state agencies on how to remove postsecondary degree requirements from hiring considerations, defined in the bill. The bill prohibits state agencies from rejecting applicants for job positions solely on the basis of the applicant lacking a postsecondary degree unless the agency substantiates in the job posting and to the Department the necessity of including a postsecondary degree as a baseline requirement, defined in the bill. Finally, the bill requires each state agency to provide a detailed quarterly report to the Department regarding the baseline requirements of its job postings.

Department of Human Resource Management; direct experience recruitment policy.

Del. Joshua Cole [D]	Del. James Leftwich [R]	Del. Katrina Callsen [D]	Del. Nadarius Clark [D]
Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler [D]	Del. Rozia Henson [D]	Del. Michael Jones [D]	Del. Ian Lovejoy [R]
Del. Marty Martinez [D]	Del. Candi Mundon King [D]	Del. Irene Shin [D]	Sen. Saddam Salim [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-01-03	House	Referred to Committee on General Laws
2025-01-03	House	Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-08-2025 25100114D

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1611
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/HB1611/text/HB1611