IIB 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6967 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
OCTOBER 11, 2022 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To implement merit-based reforms to the civil service hiring 
system that replace degree-based hiring with skills- and 
competency-based hiring, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Chance to Compete 
Act of 2022’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) TERMS DEFINED IN SECTION 3304 OF TITLE 5, 
UNITED STATES CODE.—In this Act, the terms ‘‘agency’’, 
‘‘Director’’, ‘‘examining agency’’, ‘‘Office’’, ‘‘subject mat-
ter expert’’, and ‘‘technical assessment’’ have the mean-
ings given those terms in subsection (c)(1) of section 3304 
of title 5, United States Code, as added by section 3(a). 
(b) OTHER TERMS.—In this Act, the term ‘‘competi-
tive service’’ has the meaning given the term in section 
2102 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 3. DEFINING THE TERM ‘‘EXAMINATION’’ FOR PUR-
POSES OF HIRING IN THE COMPETITIVE 
SERVICE. 
(a) EXAMINATIONS; TECHNICAL ASSESSMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 3304 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(A) 
by 
redesignating 
subsections 
(c) 
through (f) as subsections (d) through (g), re-
spectively; and 
(B) by inserting after subsection (b) the 
following: 
‘‘(c) EXAMINATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) DEFINITIONS.— 
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‘‘(A) EXAMINATION.— 
‘‘(i) In this chapter, the term ‘exam-
ination’— 
‘‘(I) means an opportunity to di-
rectly demonstrate knowledge, skills, 
abilities, and competencies, through 
an assessment; 
‘‘(II) includes a re´sume´ review 
that is— 
‘‘(aa) conducted by a subject 
matter expert; and 
‘‘(bb) based upon indicators 
that— 
‘‘(AA) are derived from 
a job analysis; and 
‘‘(BB) bear a rational 
relationship to performance 
in the position for which the 
examining agency is hiring; 
and 
‘‘(III) on and after the date that 
is 2 years after the date of enactment 
of the Chance to Compete Act of 
2022, does not include a self-assess-
ment from an automated examination, 
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a re´sume´ review (except as provided 
in subclause (II)), or any other meth-
od of determining the experience or 
level of educational attainment of an 
individual, alone. 
‘‘(ii)(I) An agency’s Chief Human 
Capital Officer may waive clause (i)(III) if 
the Officer provides a written report to the 
Director of the Office of Personnel Man-
agement within 30 days of authorizing the 
waiver that justifies the need for such 
waiver and articulates the data, evidence, 
and circumstances for such need. 
‘‘(II) The Director is authorized to 
provide agencies guidance and instruction 
on the data, evidence, and circumstances 
that should be included in the waiver de-
scribed in subclause (I) and shall post any 
waiver on a public website within 30 days 
of receipt of the waiver. 
‘‘(III) A waiver shall not be consid-
ered in effect until it is posted on the pub-
lic website pursuant to subclause (II). 
‘‘(B) OTHER DEFINITIONS.—In this sub-
section— 
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‘‘(i) the term ‘agency’ means an agen-
cy described in section 901(b) of title 31; 
‘‘(ii) the term ‘Director’ means the 
Director of the Office; 
‘‘(iii) the term ‘examining agency’ 
means— 
‘‘(I) the Office; or 
‘‘(II) an agency to which the Di-
rector has delegated examining au-
thority under section 1104(a)(2) of 
this title; 
‘‘(iv) the term ‘subject matter expert’ 
means an employee or selecting official— 
‘‘(I) who possesses understanding 
of the duties of, and knowledge, skills, 
and abilities required for, the position 
for which the employee or selecting of-
ficial is developing or administering 
an assessment; and 
‘‘(II) whom the agency that em-
ploys the employee or selecting official 
designates to assist in the develop-
ment and administration of technical 
assessments under paragraph (2); and 
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