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118TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4502 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow Federal agencies to establish 
educational requirements for certain cybersecurity positions in the com-
petitive service, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2023 
Ms. MACE (for herself and Ms. PORTER) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability 
A BILL 
To amend title 5, United States Code, to allow Federal 
agencies to establish educational requirements for certain 
cybersecurity positions in the competitive service, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing the Acqui-
sition of Cybersecurity Experts Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE 
SERVICE CYBERSECURITY POSITIONS. 
Section 3308 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Office of Personnel Man-
agement’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Con-
sistent with subsection (b), the Office of Personnel 
Management’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CYBERSECU-
RITY POSITIONS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—With respect to any cov-
ered position— 
‘‘(A) an agency may prescribe a minimum 
educational requirement for employment in 
such a position only if a minimum education 
qualification is required by law to perform the 
duties of the position in the State or locality 
where the duties of the position are to be per-
formed; and 
‘‘(B) an agency may consider education in 
determining a candidate’s satisfaction of any 
other minimum qualification only if the can-
didate’s education directly reflects the com-
petencies necessary to satisfy that qualification 
and perform the duties of the position. 
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‘‘(2) PUBLICATION.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of the Modernizing 
the Acquisition of Cybersecurity Experts Act and 
annually thereafter, the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment shall publish on the Office’s website— 
‘‘(A) any changes made to minimum quali-
fications standards concerning education for 
covered positions; and 
‘‘(B) aggregate data indicating the level of 
educational attainment, sorted by position clas-
sification, of all accessions to covered positions. 
‘‘(3) COVERED
POSITION
DEFINED.—In this 
subsection, the term ‘covered position’ means— 
‘‘(A) any position in the competitive service 
classified under the GS–2210 information tech-
nology management series, or any successor se-
ries; and 
‘‘(B) any other position in the competitive 
service designated as ‘‘cybersecurity’’ under the 
National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 
(NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 
(NIST Special Publication 800–181), or suc-
cessor framework.’’. 
Æ 
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