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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 1000
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide for education
and training programs and resources of the Cybersecurity and Infrastruc-
ture Security Agency of the Department of Homeland Security, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY5, 2025
Mr. G
REENof Tennessee (for himself, Mr. GUEST, Mr. GIMENEZ, Mr. HIG-
GINSof Louisiana, Mr. STRONG, Mr. EZELL, Mr. ROGERSof Kentucky,
Mrs. B
IGGSof South Carolina, Mr. EVANSof Colorado, Mr. MOOLENAAR,
and Mr. G
ARBARINO) introduced the following bill; which was referred to
the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee
on Education and Workforce, 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
A BILL
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide
for education and training programs and resources of
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of
the Department of Homeland Security, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Providing Individuals 2
Various Opportunities for Technical Training to Build a 3
Skills-Based Cyber Workforce Act of 2025’’ or the ‘‘Cyber 4
PIVOTT Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. CISA EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS AND 6
RESOURCES. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subtitle D of title XIII of the 8
Homeland Security Act of 2002 is amended by adding at 9
the end the following new section: 10
‘‘SEC. 1334. CISA EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAMS 11
AND RESOURCES. 12
‘‘(a) E
XPANDINGEDUCATION AND TRAININGPRO-13
GRAMS AND RESOURCES TO COMMUNITYCOLLEGES, 14
T
ECHNICALSCHOOLS, ANDOTHERINSTITUTIONS OF 15
H
IGHEREDUCATION OFFERING TWO-YEARPRO-16
GRAMS.— 17
‘‘(1) S
TUDENT QUALIFICATIONS .— 18
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—The Director of the 19
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security 20
Agency (CISA) of the Department shall seek to 21
enter into partnerships or other arrangements 22
with community colleges (as such term is de-23
fined in section 5002 of the William M. (Mac) 24
Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act 25
for Fiscal Year 2021 (15 U.S.C. 9401), tech-26
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nical schools (as such term is defined in section 1
411.167 of title 20, Code of Federal Regula-2
tions), and other institutions of higher edu-3
cation offering two-year programs (in this sec-4
tion referred to as ‘participating institutions’) 5
to establish education and training programs 6
and facilitate internship and post-graduation 7
Federal job opportunities at participating insti-8
tutions. Such programs shall be known as the 9
‘Providing Individuals Various Opportunities 10
for Technical Training to Build a Skills-Based 11
Cyber Workforce Program’ or the ‘PIVOTT 12
Program’ (in this section referred to as the 13
‘Program’). 14
‘‘(B) E
LIGIBILITY.—The following cat-15
egories of students are eligible to participate in 16
the Program: 17
‘‘(i) Students enrolled in but who have 18
not yet started a two-year cyber or cyber- 19
relevant associate’s degree program or 20
comparable technical certification, as de-21
termined by the Director of CISA, at a 22
participating institution. 23
‘‘(ii) Students currently enrolled in 24
their first semester of a two-year cyber or 25
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cyber-relevant associate’s degree program 1
or comparable technical certification, as 2
determined by the Director of CISA, at a 3
participating institution. 4
‘‘(iii) Students identified by the Direc-5
tor of CISA who are eligible and qualified 6
to enroll in a two-year degree cyber or 7
cyber-relevant associate’s program or com-8
parable technical certification at a partici-9
pating institution, such as individuals who 10
are pursuing a career change, have a high 11
school diploma or equivalent, or would be 12
considered entry-level. 13
‘‘(iv) Students enrolled in technical 14
certifications at participating institutions 15
that are less than two years to complete 16
but align with Tasks, Knowledge, and 17
Skills (TKS), as defined by the National 18
Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 19
(NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Frame-20
work (NIST Special Publication 800–181, 21
revision 1), and prepare students to serve 22
in Federal, State, local, Tribal, or terri-23
torial government cyber or cyber-relevant 24
roles. 25
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‘‘(C) SCHOLARSHIPS.—The Secretary, act-1
ing through the Director of CISA, shall provide 2
students participating in the Program with full 3
tuition scholarships, including academic fees, 4
lab fees, travel, lodging, per diem, stipends, in-5
ternship costs, costs associated with virtual par-6
ticipation, certification testing fees, and any 7
other expenses the Director determines nec-8
essary to complete any requirement under the 9
Program, including for participation in one in- 10
person exercise in accordance with paragraph 11
(3)(B), including travel, lodging, meals, in-per-12
son or in-laboratory post-course assessments 13
fees, and other necessary expenses as deter-14
mined by the Director. 15
‘‘(D) S
ERVICE OBLIGATION.— 16
‘‘(i) I
N GENERAL.—Students who par-17
ticipate in and complete the Program shall 18
fulfill a two-year service obligation in a 19
cyber role, as defined by the National Ini-20
tiative for Cybersecurity Education 21
(NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Frame-22
work (NIST Special Publication 800–181, 23
revision 1) or the Department of Defense 24
Cyber Workforce Framework, or a cyber- 25
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relevant role, to advance the cyber mission 1
of an executive agency (as such term is de-2
fined in section 105 of title 5, United 3
States Code) or a State, local, Tribal, or 4
territorial government. 5
‘‘(ii) E
XCEPTION.—The service obliga-6
tion specified in clause (i) shall not apply 7
to students who— 8
‘‘(I) have completed a term of 9
service in the Armed Forces that is 10
equal to the service obligation speci-11
fied in clause (i); 12
‘‘(II) are currently serving in the 13
Armed Forces; or 14
‘‘(III) pursue service in the 15
Armed Forces in a cyber or cyber-rel-16
evant role during or immediately after 17
completion of the Program. 18
‘‘(iii) D
ELAYED SERVICE.—Students 19
who, immediately after completion of the 20
Program, enroll in a four-year degree pro-21
gram may complete the service obligation 22
specified in clause (i) after receiving such 23
four-year degree. 24
‘‘(E) P
ROGRAM COMPLETION TIMELINE .— 25
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‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Students shall 1
complete participation in the Program 2
within four years of starting the Program, 3
or pursuant to participating institution 4
rules if such rules are in effect at the time 5
such a student begins such participation. 6
‘‘(ii) P
ROCESS FOR UPDATED COM -7
PLETION TIMELINE.—A student who expe-8
riences extreme hardship during participa-9
tion in the Program may submit to the Di-10
rector of CISA an application to waive the 11
application of the timeline specified in 12
clause (i). The Director, in consultation 13
with the appropriate participating institu-14
tion, shall determine on a case-by-case 15
basis whether such student may be granted 16
additional time to complete the Program. 17
‘‘(2) I
NSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS .—A com-18
munity college, technical school, or other institution 19
of higher education is eligible to participate in the 20
Program if such college or school is— 21
‘‘(A) a participant in the National Centers 22
of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity 23
(NCAE–C) program; or 24
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‘‘(B) determined eligible by the Director of 1
CISA, taking into consideration whether the 2
virtual or in-person course offerings at such a 3
college or school aligns with pathways as de-4
fined by the National Initiative for Cybersecu-5
rity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Work-6
force Framework (NIST Special Publication 7
800–181, revision 1), and the presence of a cy-8
bersecurity clinic on campus. 9
‘‘(3) P
ROGRAM COMPONENTS .— 10
‘‘(A) I
N GENERAL.—In accordance with 11
subparagraph (C), students participating in the 12
Program shall complete a minimum of four eli-13
gible skills-based exercises described in subpara-14
graph (B). 15
‘‘(B) E
LIGIBLE SKILLS-BASED EXER -16
CISES.—Eligible skills-based exercises described 17
in this subparagraph may include the following: 18
‘‘(i) Laboratory work. 19
‘‘(ii) Competitions such as 20
hackathons, challenges, and capture the 21
flag. 22
‘‘(iii) Virtual programming. 23
‘‘(iv) Table-top exercises. 24
‘‘(v) Industry training workshops. 25
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‘‘(vi) Exercises in a box. 1
‘‘(C) P
ROVISION.— 2
‘‘(i) I
N GENERAL.—The Director of 3
CISA shall coordinate with participating 4
institutions to provide at least one skills- 5
based exercise under subparagraph (A) 6
each semester. 7
‘‘(ii) S
TUDENT REQUIREMENTS .—Stu-8
dents participating in the Program shall 9
complete at least one of the four skills- 10
based exercises under subparagraph (A) 11
in-person. 12
‘‘(iii) A
DMINISTRATION OF EXER -13
CISES.—The Director of CISA, in coordi-14
nation with participating institutions, shall 15
offer at least one in-person skills-based ex-16
ercise to Program participants every two 17
years. 18
‘‘(iv) C
OORDINATION.—The Director 19
of CISA shall coordinate and may jointly 20
offer the skills-based exercises under sub-21
paragraph (A) with the following: 22
‘‘(I) Other Federal agencies, such 23
as the Department of Defense, the 24
Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 25
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National Security Agency, and the Of-1
fice of the National Cyber Director, as 2
appropriate. 3
‘‘(II) Non-Federal entities with 4
cyber or cyber-relevant expertise, in-5
cluding cybersecurity clinics. 6
‘‘(v) E
XCEPTION.—A student partici-7
pating in the Program who is unable to 8
complete a skills-based exercise under sub-9
paragraph (A) may submit to the partici-10
pating institution a proposal for a com-11
parable skills-based exercise, as determined 12
by the Director of CISA. 13
‘‘(D) I
NTERNSHIPS.— 14
‘‘(i) I
N GENERAL.—The Director of 15
CISA and participating institutions shall, 16
as a core requirement of the Program, co-17
ordinate with appropriate entities to place 18
students participating in the Program in 19
an approved cyber or cyber-relevant intern-20
ship, as determined by the Director, with 21
any of the following: 22
‘‘(I) A State, local, Tribal, or ter-23
ritorial government entity. 24
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‘‘(II) A critical infrastructure 1
owner or operator that is located in a 2
rural community or is considered to 3
be a high-risk sector, as determined 4
by the Director of CISA. 5
‘‘(III) A Federal department or 6
agency, including with the CISA Re-7
gional Security Advisors program. 8
‘‘(ii) P
RIORITIZATION.—A student 9
who has communicated in writing to the 10
Director of CISA or the participating insti-11
tution during the internship placement 12
process that such student intends to serve 13
in a Federal Government position beyond 14
the obligations of the student under para-15
graph (1)(D) shall be prioritized for Fed-16
eral cyber internship opportunities that re-17
quire a security clearance. 18
‘‘(iii) C
URRENT FEDERAL EMPLOY -19
EES.—The Director of CISA shall coordi-20
nate with the heads of appropriate Federal 21
agencies to establish an approved cyber or 22
cyber-relevant internship program for stu-23
dents participating in the Program who 24
are Federal employees. 25
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‘‘(iv) SECURITY CLEARANCES .—The 1
Director of CISA shall take such actions 2
as may be necessary to begin, not later 3
than one year before an appropriate stu-4
dent under this subparagraph completes 5
participation in the Program, the process 6
to provide such student with an appro-7
priate security clearance. 8
‘‘(4) O
UTREACH INITIATIVES.— 9
‘‘(A) CISA.—The Director of CISA 10
shall— 11
‘‘(i) conduct regional outreach initia-12
tives, including at institutions designated 13
as National Centers of Academic Excel-14
lence in Cybersecurity (NCAE–C), and 15
provide informational materials about the 16
Program— 17
‘‘(I) at each CISA regional office; 18
and 19
‘‘(II) to industry partners to pro-20
mote the Program; and 21
‘‘(ii) seek to engage with industry 22
stakeholders to produce an annual report 23
on industry-relevant skills intended to in-24
form the skills-based exercises offered in 25
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the Program, which report may include 1
input from an advisory committee, estab-2
lished by the Director of CISA and com-3
prised of university-level educators. 4
‘‘(B) R
ECRUITMENT FAIR.—The Director 5
of CISA, in coordination with the National 6
Cyber Director, shall host a voluntary Federal 7
Government recruitment fair that includes Fed-8
eral Government agency representatives who 9
seek to recruit for open cybersecurity positions 10
each fiscal year. Information regarding such 11
fair shall be posted on a dedicated job board 12
hosted by CISA. Each such fair may be hosted 13
online or in-person at a minimum of five Pro-14
gram participating institutions. 15
‘‘(5) P
ROGRAM COMPLETION BENEFITS .— 16
‘‘(A) D
ATABASE.—The Director of CISA, 17
leveraging existing educational content reposi-18
tories, shall maintain an online database of 19
cyber training and education resources, mapped 20
to job roles set forth in the National Initiative 21
for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecu-22
rity Workforce Framework (NIST Special Pub-23
lication 800–181, revision 1), and Federal job 24
opportunities in cyber or cyber-relevant fields. 25
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Such database shall be available for access, as 1
appropriate, by students who have successfully 2
completed the Program. 3
‘‘(B) C
ERTIFICATION PROGRAM .—The Di-4
rector of CISA shall establish and update annu-5
ally a list of existing cyber certification pro-6
grams developed or offered by entities in the 7
private sector, academia, nonprofits, or other 8
institutions, as determined by the Director. The 9
Secretary, acting through the Director, may 10
fund, through vouchers requested by a student 11
participating in the Program, up to three cer-12
tifications and associated certification examina-13
tions per student from such list for such stu-14
dents who complete the Program within ten 15
years of such completion. 16
‘‘(C) A
DDITIONAL SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTU -17
NITIES FOR STUDENTS WHO COMPLETE THE 18
PROGRAM.—The Director of CISA may select, 19
pursuant to an application process designed by 20
Director, up to ten students per year who com-21
pleted the Program and have been employed by 22
the Federal Government for at least seven years 23
to be eligible for scholarships to be applied to 24
cyber or cyber-relevant degree programs offered 25
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at institutions designated as NCAE–C. Scholar-1
ship amounts under this subparagraph shall be 2
determined by the Director, subject to the avail-3
ability of appropriations for such purpose. 4
‘‘(6) T
ERMS OF PROGRAM SCHOLARSHIP .—A 5
scholarship recipient under this section shall be lia-6
ble to the United States for repayment of a scholar-7
ship awarded to such recipient as provided under 8
subsection (d) if such recipient— 9
‘‘(A) fails to maintain an acceptable level 10
of academic standing at the participating insti-11
tution, as determined by the Director of CISA; 12
‘‘(B) is dismissed from the participating 13
institution for disciplinary reasons; 14
‘‘(C) withdraws from the eligible degree 15
program before completing the Program; 16
‘‘(D) declares that such recipient does not 17
intend to fulfill the post-award employment ob-18
ligation under this section; or 19
‘‘(E) fails to maintain or fulfill the post- 20
graduation government service or post-award 21
obligations or requirements of such recipient. 22
‘‘(7) E
XCEPTION.—A student who— 23
‘‘(A) enlists or commissions in the Armed 24
Forces prior to completion of the Program, or 25
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‘‘(B) has a documented history of dem-1
onstrated effort to secure a position with a Fed-2
eral, State, local, Tribal, or territorial govern-3
ment within two years after completing the Pro-4
gram but who is not offered such a position, 5
may be, on a case-by-case basis, as determined by 6
the Director, exempted from liability to the United 7
States for repayment of a scholarship awarded to 8
such student. 9
‘‘(b) M
ONITORINGCOMPLIANCE.—As a condition of 10
participation in the Program, a participating institution 11
shall enter into an agreement with the Director of CISA 12
to monitor the compliance of scholarship recipients with 13
respect to their post-award employment obligations. 14
‘‘(c) A
MOUNT OFREPAYMENT.—If a circumstance 15
described in subsection (a)(6) occurs before the completion 16
of one year of a post-scholarship employment obligation 17
under this section, the total amount of scholarship awards 18
received by an individual under this section shall— 19
‘‘(1) be repaid immediately; or 20
‘‘(2) be treated as a loan to be repaid in accord-21
ance with subsection (d). 22
‘‘(d) R
EPAYMENTS.—A loan referred to subsection 23
(c) shall— 24
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‘‘(1) be treated as a Federal Direct Unsub-1
sidized Stafford Loan under part D of subpart 10 2
of chapter 2 of subpart 2 of part A of title IV of 3
the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a 4
et seq.); and 5
‘‘(2) be subject to repayment, together with in-6
terest thereon accruing from the date of the scholar-7
ship award, in accordance with terms and conditions 8
specified by the Secretary (in consultation with the 9
Secretary of Education) in regulations promulgated 10
to carry out this subsection. 11
‘‘(e) C
OLLECTION OFREPAYMENT.— 12
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—If a scholarship recipient is 13
required to repay a scholarship under this section, 14
the Secretary shall— 15
‘‘(A) determine the repayment amounts 16
and notify such recipient of the amount owed; 17
and 18
‘‘(B) collect such amount within a period 19
of time as determined by the Secretary, or such 20
amount shall be treated as a loan in accordance 21
with subsection (e). 22
‘‘(2) R
ETURNED TO THE DEPARTMENT .—Ex-23
cept as provided in paragraph (3), any repayment 24
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under this subsection shall be returned to the De-1
partment. 2
‘‘(3) R
ETENTION OF PERCENTAGE .—A partici-3
pating institution may retain a percentage of any re-4
payment such institution collects under this sub-5
section to defray administrative costs associated with 6
the collection of such repayment. The Secretary shall 7
establish a single, fixed percentage applicable to all 8
participating institutions. 9
‘‘(f) E
XCEPTIONS.—The Secretary may provide for 10
the partial or total waiver or suspension of any repayment 11
obligation by an individual under this section whenever 12
compliance by such individual with such obligation is im-13
possible or would involve extreme hardship to the indi-14
vidual. 15
‘‘(g) T
IMELINE FORIMPLEMENTATION.— 16
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Director of CISA and 17
participating institutions shall seek to enroll in the 18
Program, subject to the availability of appropria-19
tions, not fewer than 250 students for the first full 20
academic year of the Program that begins one year 21
after the date of the enactment of this section. 22
‘‘(2) G
ROWTH OF PROGRAM .—Beginning with 23
the second full academic year of the Program, the 24
Director of CISA and participating institutions shall 25
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seek to enroll in the Program each full academic 1
year, subject to the availability of appropriations, 2
not fewer than double the number of students en-3
rolled in the immediately preceding full academic 4
year until the number of such students reaches 5
1,000 each full academic year. 6
‘‘(3) P
LAN FOR 10,000 STUDENTS.—Not later 7
than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this 8
section, the Director of CISA and participating in-9
stitutions shall develop a plan, subject to capacity 10
and administrative capabilities, to enroll by not later 11
than ten years after the date of the establishment of 12
the Program at least 10,000 students in the Pro-13
gram each academic year. The Director shall brief 14
the Committee on Homeland Security of the House 15
of Representatives and the Committee on Homeland 16
Security and Government Affairs of the Senate re-17
garding such plan. 18
‘‘(h) R
EPORT ONENROLLMENTGOALS.—If the Di-19
rector of CISA and participating institutions fail in any 20
academic year to meet the minimum quota specified in 21
paragraph (1) or (2), as the case may be, of subsection 22
(g), the Director of CISA shall brief the Committee on 23
Homeland Security of the House of Representatives and 24
the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 25
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Affairs of the Senate within 30 days following the conclu-1
sion of such academic year. 2
‘‘(i) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 3
‘‘(1) C
YBER-RELEVANT.—The term ‘cyber-rel-4
evant’ means areas of national security that would 5
impact the cyber resiliency of the United States, in-6
cluding relating to operational technology, critical in-7
frastructure, artificial intelligence, quantum com-8
puting, security awareness, or computer science. 9
‘‘(2) S
KILLS-BASED EXERCISES .—The term 10
‘skills-based exercises’ means condensed programs 11
lasting at least one day that focus on practice and 12
application, rather than research and study.’’. 13
(b) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of contents 14
in section 1(b) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 is 15
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 16
1333 the following new item: 17
‘‘Sec. 1334. CISA education and training programs and resources.’’.
(c) REVIEW OFCISA EDUCATION, TRAININGPRO-18
GRAMS ANDRESOURCES.—Not later than 90 days after 19
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the 20
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) 21
of the Department of Homeland Security shall submit to 22
Congress a review of CISA’s education and training pro-23
grams. Such review shall evaluate the cost, reach, and cur-24
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rent demand of such programs, including relating to any 1
resource gaps in any of such programs. 2
(d) P
ROMOTINGCYBERCORPSSCHOLARSHIP FOR 3
S
ERVICE AS AGOLDSTANDARDPROGRAM.—The Sec-4
retary of Homeland Security shall submit to the Com-5
mittee on Homeland Security and the Committee on 6
Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Rep-7
resentatives and the Committee on Homeland Security 8
and Governmental Affairs and the Committee on Com-9
merce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a report 10
on current support of the Department to the CyberCorps 11
Scholarship for Service Program, including opportunities 12
to provide additional funding to such Program under ex-13
isting training and education programs of the Department 14
of Homeland Security. 15
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