HR 159 United States House · 118th Congress

Chance to Compete Act of 2023

The Chance to Compete Act of 2023 reforms federal hiring practices for positions in the competitive service by establishing new standards for assessments used in the hiring process. It prohibits the use of automated self-assessments and certain résumé reviews after two years, requiring instead passing score assessments that directly demonstrate job-related skills. The bill mandates agencies to publicly post any waivers to these standards, limits waivers to 10% of positions, and requires OPM to create an online tool tracking hiring data including demographic information. This affects all federal agencies hiring through the competitive service and the applicants for those positions.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2023

Committee Review

Jan 2023

House Passage

Jan 2023

Senate Passage

President

Introduced Jan 9, 2023 Last action Jan 25, 2023

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What changed between versions

Introduced in House → Engrossed in House · 2 edits · Jan 24, 2023

MINOR

The engrossed version of HR 159 removes Section 8, which had provided a mechanism for determining the bill's budgetary effects under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO). All other changes are technical and formatting in nature, including capitalization adjustments, hyphenation corrections, removal of an accent mark, and replacement of en dashes with hyphens.

FISCAL

Section 8 (Determination of budgetary effects) was removed entirely. This section had specified that the bill's budgetary effects for PAYGO compliance would be determined by reference to the latest Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation statement submitted in the Congressional Record by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee before the vote on passage.

TECHNICAL

Multiple formatting changes: quotation marks added around 'examination' in section 3 heading; 'Competitive Service Act of 2015' lowercased to 'competitive service act of 2015'; 'Federal' lowercased to 'federal'; 'governmentwide' changed to 'government-wide' (two instances); en dashes in SORN identifiers (OPM/GOVT-5 and OPM/GOVT-6) replaced with hyphens; accent mark removed from 'resumes'.

Floor votes · House Jan 24, 2023

How they voted

422–2

Passed · 10 other

Total votes 434

Jan 24, 2023

D Democratic212

205 Yea 7

96% Yea

I Independent1

1 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican221

216 Yea 2 Nay 3

97% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Amendments

Jan 25, 2023

Committee

Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

upper

Jan 24, 2023

Introduced

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 422 - 2 (Roll no. 32). (text: CR H259-261)

lower

Jan 24, 2023

Lower · Passed

Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 422 - 2 (Roll no. 32). (text: CR H259-261)

lower

Jan 24, 2023

Introduced

Mr. Comer moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.

lower

Jan 9, 2023

Committee

Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

lower

Jan 9, 2023

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

1 primary · 5 co-sponsors