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Virginia · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 1014: Human Resource Management, Department of; hiring on the basis of direct experience.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 1014 is a bill introduced in the Virginia Senate on January 7, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Human Resource Management, Department of; hiring on the basis of direct experience. Primary sponsor: Schuyler VanValkenburg (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (March 24, 2025): Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

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 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 HB 1611.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Schuyler VanValkenburgPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate16

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0492)
  2. Approved by Governor-Chapter 492 (Effective 07/01/25)
  3. Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., March 24, 2025
  4. Enrolled Bill Communicated to Governor on February 20, 2025
  5. Signed by President
  6. Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (SB1014)
  7. Signed by Speaker
  8. Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB1014ER)
  9. Enrolled
  10. Passed House (94-Y 0-N)
  11. Read third time
  12. Read second time

Showing 12 most recent of 28 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source