Skip to main content
H.R. 5000 119th Congress House

Cybersecurity Hiring Modernization Act

Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit the use of educational requirements or qualifications in evaluating candidates for certain cybersecurity positio… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend title 5, United States Code, to limit the use of educational requirements or qualifications in evaluating candidates for certain cybersecurity positions in the competitive service, and for other purposes.

Introduced: August 19, 2025 Introduced by: Nancy Mace Republican · South Carolina See on congress.gov
Government Operations and Politics Computer security and identity theftComputers and information technologyEmployee hiringGovernment employee pay, benefits, personnel managementGovernment information and archives
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 4, 2026
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.
Feb 4, 2026
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Aug 19, 2025
Introduced in House
Aug 19, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
 Ask about this bill AI · grounded in the bill text

Have a question about what this bill does? Ask in plain English; the answer is drawn from the bill's actual text and official record, and it'll tell you when something isn't in the text rather than guess.

AI answers can be imperfect; always confirm against the full bill text.

What's happening now February 4, 2026

Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.

 Hearings & markups 1
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Lobbying activity 7

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

Bodies those filers lobbied

A filing lists the bills it worked on and the parts of government it contacted in separate sections, so these are the bodies those filers named anywhere in the filing, not a per-bill breakdown.

See all 7 filings →
Cite this page click to expand
APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5000: Cybersecurity Hiring Modernization Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5000/
MLA
"H.R. 5000: Cybersecurity Hiring Modernization Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5000/.
Bluebook (legal)
H.R. 5000, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5000/.
Markdown link
[H.R. 5000: Cybersecurity Hiring Modernization Act](https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-5000/)
Report a problem