Fewer state jobs require a four-year degree, as far as practicable.
The bill tells the State Auditor's classification officer to find state agency jobs whose education, experience, and training requirements could be lowered, and to cut the number of state jobs that require a bachelor's degree as far as practicable. It touches state agencies and job seekers or state workers who lack a four-year degree. The officer must also look for ways to help those workers advance and report findings to the governor's budget office and the Legislative Budget Board on the existing reporting schedule, starting September 1, 2025.
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relating to state employment opportunities for individuals who do
not hold a bachelor's degree.
WHAT IT DOES
Fewer state jobs require a four-year degree, as far as practicable.
The bill tells the State Auditor's classification officer to find state agency jobs whose education, experience, and training requirements could be lowered, and to cut the number of state jobs that require a bachelor's degree as far as practicable. It touches state agencies and job seekers or state workers who lack a four-year degree. The officer must also look for ways to help those workers advance and report findings to the governor's budget office and the Legislative Budget Board on the existing reporting schedule, starting September 1, 2025.
CHARGES
[ ] NONE FOUND
TOTAL
No significant fiscal implication to the State is anticipated.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Parker moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 3923 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. The bill was read third time and was passed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
Names were not printed. No individual positions are inferred.
Sources
Senator Parker moved that Senate Rule 7.18 and the Constitutional Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days be suspended and that HB 3923 be placed on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
Published stock of positions for this vote, except where marked derived.
Yea: 31 (published)
Nay: 0 (published)
Present, not voting: Not printed
Absent: Not printed
Excused: Not printed
Senate journal. Source snapshot 2026-10-19, Central time.
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By: Bell of Kaufman
H.B. No. 3923
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to state employment opportunities for individuals who do
not hold a bachelor's degree.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 654.037, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
(e) The classification officer shall:
(1) identify state agency positions for which the
educational, experience, and training requirements could be
reduced to increase the number of qualified applicants who could
proficiently perform the positions;
(2) reduce to the extent practicable the number of
state agency positions requiring an employee to hold a bachelor's
degree as a condition of employment;
(3) evaluate ways to expand career advancement
opportunities for state agency employees who do not hold a
bachelor's degree; and
(4) report the information gathered as required by
this subsection to the governor's budget office and the Legislative
Budget Board in the time required by Subsection (a)(2).
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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