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2025 · Regular session · House bill

HB3923

HB3923 directs the state's classification officer to identify agency jobs whose education, experience or training requirements could be reduced while still attracting people able to perform the work proficiently.

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Official caption: Relating to state employment opportunities for individuals who do not hold a bachelor's degree.

Signed by governorSource-checked explanation published

Official report lists House author(s): Bell, Keith, Cook, Ordaz, Bowers, Fairly. This does not identify sponsors or amendment drafters.

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HB3923 directs the state's classification officer to identify agency jobs whose education, experience or training requirements could be reduced while still attracting people able to perform the work proficiently.
The officer must report the gathered information to the governor's budget office and Legislative Budget Board by the existing deadline: October 1 before each regular legislative session.
The governor signed HB3923 June 20, 2025, and it took effect September 1, 2025.

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What does it do?

HB3923 directs the state’s classification officer to identify agency jobs whose education, experience or training requirements could be reduced while still attracting people able to perform the work proficiently. The officer must reduce, as far as practicable, the number of state agency positions requiring a bachelor’s degree, and evaluate ways to expand advancement opportunities for state employees without one. This is a duty to review and change appropriate job requirements—not a guarantee that every state job will become degree-free or that an applicant will be hired. Enacted text

The officer must report the gathered information to the governor’s budget office and Legislative Budget Board by the existing deadline: October 1 before each regular legislative session. The classification officer sits in the State Auditor’s Office and maintains the state position classification plan. That plan has statutory exclusions, including higher-education personnel and certain officials; this bill is not a blanket rewrite of every public employer’s hiring standards. Reporting deadline, Government Code 654.037 · Officer’s role · Plan exclusions

The governor signed HB3923 June 20, 2025, and it took effect September 1, 2025. It adds these duties to existing classification studies and recommendations; it does not itself list particular jobs whose requirements are removed. Official history

What changed along the way?

The introduced, House committee, House-passed, Senate committee and enrolled versions contain the same operative policy. Both committees reported it without amendments, and the amendment index lists none. There was no separate floor proposal to distinguish from an adopted change; the new subsection survived intact. Introduced · House report · House-passed · Senate report · Amendment index

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Who could benefit—and who could bear the costs?

Applicants and existing employees with relevant skills but no bachelor’s degree may gain access to more jobs or promotion paths. Agencies may gain a wider qualified applicant pool. Those are potential effects: the law preserves the emphasis on proficient performance and leaves the practical job-by-job changes to the classification process. It does not award an automatic promotion, pay increase or hiring preference.

The latest posted fiscal note anticipated no significant state fiscal impact, assuming the work could be absorbed with existing resources, and no significant local-government impact. It did not estimate how many jobs would change or how many additional people would be hired. May 22 fiscal note

Review boundary: This explains the enacted duties, not whether a specific vacancy now waives a degree or whether a later classification report has implemented a particular change. Separate licensing and job qualifications should not be assumed repealed.

Official sources

Catalog report retrieved 2026-10-25. Check the official record for corrections or later changes.