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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2447 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To increase cybersecurity education and job growth, and for other purposes. |
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| 6 | 6 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 7 | 7 | | MARCH27, 2025 |
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| 8 | 8 | | Mr. L |
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| 9 | 9 | | IEU(for himself, Ms. TOKUDA, and Mrs. TORRESof California) intro- |
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| 10 | 10 | | duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, |
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| 11 | 11 | | Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and |
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| 12 | 12 | | Means, Education and Workforce, and Oversight and Government Re- |
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| 13 | 13 | | form, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each |
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| 14 | 14 | | case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of |
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| 15 | 15 | | the committee concerned |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To increase cybersecurity education and job growth, and |
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| 18 | 18 | | for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) S |
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| 23 | 23 | | HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ‘‘New Collar Jobs Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | (b) T |
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| 26 | 26 | | ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6 |
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| 27 | 27 | | this Act is as follows: 7 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Sec. 2. Findings. |
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| 30 | 30 | | Sec. 3. Employee cybersecurity education. |
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| 34 | 34 | | Sec. 4. Student loan repayment for certain cybersecurity employees. |
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| 35 | 35 | | Sec. 5. CyberCorps scholarship-for-service program. |
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| 36 | 36 | | Sec. 6. Increased funding for Advanced Technology Education program. |
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| 37 | 37 | | Sec. 7. Cybersecurity training incentive for Government contracts. |
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| 38 | 38 | | SEC. 2. FINDINGS. |
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| 39 | 39 | | 1 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Congress find the following: 2 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (1) Domestic factory output has increased by 3 |
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| 42 | 42 | | 21 percent since June 2009, but manufacturing em-4 |
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| 43 | 43 | | ployment has only increased 5 percent during that 5 |
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| 44 | 44 | | time, and has been flat since late 2014. 6 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (2) As manufacturers leverage new technologies 7 |
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| 46 | 46 | | from robotics to distributed control systems to create 8 |
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| 47 | 47 | | modern factories and industrial plants, different em-9 |
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| 48 | 48 | | ployment requirements have emerged including the 10 |
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| 49 | 49 | | need for cybersecurity talent. 11 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (3) Leading cybersecurity experts have reported 12 |
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| 51 | 51 | | a spike of 250 percent in industrial automation and 13 |
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| 52 | 52 | | control system cyber-incidents occurring during the 14 |
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| 53 | 53 | | period between 2011 and 2015 and as a result are 15 |
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| 54 | 54 | | seeking personnel with knowledge of their industry 16 |
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| 55 | 55 | | coupled with knowledge of security technology to 17 |
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| 56 | 56 | | prevent their organization from becoming victims of 18 |
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| 57 | 57 | | cyber-attacks. 19 |
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| 58 | 58 | | SEC. 3. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 20 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (a) I |
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| 60 | 60 | | NGENERAL.—Subpart D of part IV of sub-21 |
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| 61 | 61 | | chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 22 |
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| 65 | 65 | | 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 1 |
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| 66 | 66 | | section: 2 |
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| 67 | 67 | | ‘‘SEC. 45BB. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 3 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘(a) I |
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| 69 | 69 | | NGENERAL.—For purposes of section 38, the 4 |
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| 70 | 70 | | employee cybersecurity education credit determined under 5 |
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| 71 | 71 | | this section for the taxable year is an amount equal to 6 |
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| 72 | 72 | | 50 percent of the aggregate qualified employee cybersecu-7 |
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| 73 | 73 | | rity education expenses paid or incurred by the employer 8 |
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| 74 | 74 | | during such taxable year. 9 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ‘‘(b) L |
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| 76 | 76 | | IMITATION.—The amount allowed as a credit 10 |
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| 77 | 77 | | under subsection (a) for the taxable year with respect to 11 |
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| 78 | 78 | | an employee shall not exceed $5,000. 12 |
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| 79 | 79 | | ‘‘(c) Q |
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| 80 | 80 | | UALIFIEDEMPLOYEECYBERSECURITYEDU-13 |
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| 81 | 81 | | CATIONEXPENSES.—For purposes of this section, the 14 |
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| 82 | 82 | | term ‘qualified employee cybersecurity education expenses’ 15 |
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| 83 | 83 | | means amounts paid or incurred for each employee who 16 |
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| 84 | 84 | | earns a certificate or degree at the undergraduate or grad-17 |
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| 85 | 85 | | uate level or industry-recognized certification relating to 18 |
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| 86 | 86 | | those specialty areas and work roles that are listed in 19 |
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| 87 | 87 | | NCWF Work Roles in the document entitled, ‘NICE Cy-20 |
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| 88 | 88 | | bersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF)’, published by 21 |
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| 89 | 89 | | the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 22 |
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| 90 | 90 | | (NICE) of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-23 |
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| 91 | 91 | | nology. 24 |
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| 95 | 95 | | ‘‘(d) CERTAINRULESTOAPPLY.—Rules similar to 1 |
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| 96 | 96 | | the rules of subsections (i)(1) and (k) of section 51 shall 2 |
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| 97 | 97 | | apply for purposes of this section.’’. 3 |
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| 98 | 98 | | (b) C |
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| 99 | 99 | | REDITMADEPART OFGENERALBUSINESS 4 |
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| 100 | 100 | | C |
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| 101 | 101 | | REDIT.—Subsection (b) of section 38 of such Code is 5 |
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| 102 | 102 | | amended— 6 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (1) by striking ‘‘plus’’ at the end of paragraph 7 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (40), 8 |
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| 105 | 105 | | (2) by striking the period at the end of para-9 |
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| 106 | 106 | | graph (41) and inserting a comma, and 10 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (3) by inserting after paragraph (41) the fol-11 |
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| 108 | 108 | | lowing new paragraph: 12 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ‘‘(42) the employee cybersecurity education 13 |
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| 110 | 110 | | credit determined under section 45BB(a), plus’’. 14 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (c) D |
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| 112 | 112 | | ENIAL OFDOUBLEBENEFIT.—Subsection (a) 15 |
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| 113 | 113 | | of section 280C of such Code is amended by inserting 16 |
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| 114 | 114 | | ‘‘45BB(a),’’ after ‘‘45S(a),’’. 17 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (d) C |
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| 116 | 116 | | LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 18 |
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| 117 | 117 | | for subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 19 |
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| 118 | 118 | | of such Code is amended by adding at the end the fol-20 |
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| 119 | 119 | | lowing new item: 21 |
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| 120 | 120 | | ‘‘Sec. 45BB. Employee cybersecurity education.’’. |
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| 121 | 121 | | (e) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 22 |
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| 122 | 122 | | this section shall apply to individuals commencing appren-23 |
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| 123 | 123 | | ticeship programs after the date of the enactment of this 24 |
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| 124 | 124 | | Act. 25 |
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| 128 | 128 | | SEC. 4. STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN CYBER-1 |
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| 129 | 129 | | SECURITY EMPLOYEES. 2 |
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| 130 | 130 | | Section 455 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 3 |
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| 131 | 131 | | U.S.C. 1087e) is amended by adding at the end the fol-4 |
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| 132 | 132 | | lowing: 5 |
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| 133 | 133 | | ‘‘(q) L |
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| 134 | 134 | | OANREPAYMENT FORCYBERSECURITYWORK-6 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ERS INECONOMICALLYDISTRESSEDAREA.— 7 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ‘‘(1) I |
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| 137 | 137 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall cancel 8 |
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| 138 | 138 | | the amount described in paragraph (2) of the bal-9 |
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| 139 | 139 | | ance of interest and principal due, in accordance 10 |
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| 140 | 140 | | with such paragraph, on any eligible Federal Direct 11 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Loan not in default for a borrower who— 12 |
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| 142 | 142 | | ‘‘(A) makes 36 consecutive monthly pay-13 |
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| 143 | 143 | | ments on the eligible Federal Direct Loan after 14 |
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| 144 | 144 | | the date of the enactment of this section pursu-15 |
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| 145 | 145 | | ant to any one or a combination of the fol-16 |
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| 146 | 146 | | lowing— 17 |
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| 147 | 147 | | ‘‘(i) payments under an income-based 18 |
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| 148 | 148 | | repayment plan under section 493C; 19 |
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| 149 | 149 | | ‘‘(ii) payments under a standard re-20 |
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| 150 | 150 | | payment plan under subsection (d)(1)(A), 21 |
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| 151 | 151 | | based on a 10-year repayment period; 22 |
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| 152 | 152 | | ‘‘(iii) monthly payments under a re-23 |
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| 153 | 153 | | payment plan under subsection (d)(1) or 24 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (g) of not less than the monthly amount 25 |
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| 158 | 158 | | calculated under subsection (d)(1)(A), 1 |
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| 159 | 159 | | based on a 10-year repayment period; or 2 |
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| 160 | 160 | | ‘‘(iv) payments under an income con-3 |
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| 161 | 161 | | tingent repayment plan under subsection 4 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (d)(1)(D); and 5 |
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| 163 | 163 | | ‘‘(B) during the period in which the bor-6 |
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| 164 | 164 | | rower makes each of the 36 consecutive month-7 |
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| 165 | 165 | | ly payments described in subparagraph (A), has 8 |
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| 166 | 166 | | been employed in a cybersecurity job— 9 |
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| 167 | 167 | | ‘‘(i) located in an area that, for at 10 |
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| 168 | 168 | | least 12 of such consecutive monthly pay-11 |
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| 169 | 169 | | ments is an economically distressed area; 12 |
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| 170 | 170 | | and 13 |
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| 171 | 171 | | ‘‘(ii) that requires that the borrower 14 |
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| 172 | 172 | | work in the economically distressed area no 15 |
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| 173 | 173 | | less than 60 percent of total work hours. 16 |
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| 174 | 174 | | ‘‘(2) C |
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| 175 | 175 | | ANCELLATION AMOUNT .—After the con-17 |
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| 176 | 176 | | clusion of the employment period described in para-18 |
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| 177 | 177 | | graph (1), the Secretary shall cancel the lesser of 19 |
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| 178 | 178 | | the following: 20 |
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| 179 | 179 | | ‘‘(A) The obligation to repay the balance of 21 |
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| 180 | 180 | | principal and interest due as of the time of such 22 |
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| 181 | 181 | | cancellation, on the eligible Federal Direct 23 |
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| 182 | 182 | | Loans made to the borrower under this part. 24 |
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| 183 | 183 | | ‘‘(B) $25,000. 25 |
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| 187 | 187 | | ‘‘(3) INELIGIBILITY OF DOUBLE BENEFITS .— 1 |
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| 188 | 188 | | No borrower may, for the same service, receive a re-2 |
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| 189 | 189 | | duction of loan obligations under both this sub-3 |
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| 190 | 190 | | section and— 4 |
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| 191 | 191 | | ‘‘(A) subsection (m); or 5 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ‘‘(B) section 428J, 428K, 428L, or 460. 6 |
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| 193 | 193 | | ‘‘(4) D |
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| 194 | 194 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7 |
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| 195 | 195 | | ‘‘(A) C |
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| 196 | 196 | | YBERSECURITY JOB.—The term ‘cy-8 |
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| 197 | 197 | | bersecurity job’ means— 9 |
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| 198 | 198 | | ‘‘(i) a skill role as defined in the 10 |
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| 199 | 199 | | NCWF Work Roles by the National Initia-11 |
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| 200 | 200 | | tive for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) 12 |
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| 201 | 201 | | Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 13 |
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| 202 | 202 | | (NCWF) of the National Institute of 14 |
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| 203 | 203 | | Standards and Technology, Special Publi-15 |
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| 204 | 204 | | cation 800–181, or any successor docu-16 |
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| 205 | 205 | | ment; or 17 |
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| 206 | 206 | | ‘‘(ii) teaching a cybersecurity course 18 |
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| 207 | 207 | | for a skill role described in clause (i). 19 |
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| 208 | 208 | | ‘‘(B) E |
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| 209 | 209 | | CONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA .— 20 |
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| 210 | 210 | | The term ‘economically distressed area’ means 21 |
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| 211 | 211 | | an area that meets one or more criteria under 22 |
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| 212 | 212 | | section 301(a) of the Public Works and Eco-23 |
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| 213 | 213 | | nomic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 24 |
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| 214 | 214 | | 3161(a)).’’. 25 |
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| 218 | 218 | | SEC. 5. CYBERCORPS SCHOLARSHIP-FOR-SERVICE PRO-1 |
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| 219 | 219 | | GRAM. 2 |
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| 220 | 220 | | (a) F |
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| 221 | 221 | | UNDINGINCREASE.—It is the sense of the Con-3 |
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| 222 | 222 | | gress that the number of scholarships awarded by the Na-4 |
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| 223 | 223 | | tional Science Foundation for scholarships awarded under 5 |
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| 224 | 224 | | the Federal cyber scholarship-for-service program estab-6 |
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| 225 | 225 | | lished by section 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement 7 |
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| 226 | 226 | | Act of 2014 for fiscal year 2026 and each succeeding fiscal 8 |
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| 227 | 227 | | year should be not less than double the number of such 9 |
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| 228 | 228 | | scholarships awarded for fiscal year 2024. 10 |
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| 229 | 229 | | (b) C |
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| 230 | 230 | | YBERSECURITY COURSEINSTRUCTION.—Sec-11 |
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| 231 | 231 | | tion 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 12 |
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| 232 | 232 | | (15 U.S.C. 7442) is amended— 13 |
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| 233 | 233 | | (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and security 14 |
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| 234 | 234 | | managers’’ and inserting ‘‘security managers, and 15 |
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| 235 | 235 | | cybersecurity course instructors,’’; and 16 |
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| 236 | 236 | | (2) in subsection (d), by adding after paragraph 17 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (6) the following: 18 |
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| 238 | 238 | | ‘‘Such work may include teaching a cybersecurity course 19 |
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| 239 | 239 | | for a skill role as defined in the NCWF Work Roles by 20 |
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| 240 | 240 | | the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 21 |
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| 241 | 241 | | (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) of 22 |
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| 242 | 242 | | the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Spe-23 |
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| 243 | 243 | | cial Publication 800–181, or any successor document.’’. 24 |
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| 247 | 247 | | (c) ELIMINATION OFPRIORITY FORFEDERALGOV-1 |
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| 248 | 248 | | ERNMENTEMPLOYMENT PLACEMENTS.—Section 302(b) 2 |
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| 249 | 249 | | of such Act (15 U.S.C. 7442(b)) is amended— 3 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (1) in paragraph (2), by adding ‘‘and’’ at the 4 |
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| 251 | 251 | | end; 5 |
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| 252 | 252 | | (2) by striking paragraph (3); and 6 |
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| 253 | 253 | | (3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-7 |
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| 254 | 254 | | graph (3). 8 |
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| 255 | 255 | | SEC. 6. INCREASED FUNDING FOR ADVANCED TECH-9 |
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| 256 | 256 | | NOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM. 10 |
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| 257 | 257 | | It is the sense of the Congress that the amount ex-11 |
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| 258 | 258 | | pended for the Information Technology and Cybersecurity 12 |
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| 259 | 259 | | Division of the Advanced Technological Education pro-13 |
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| 260 | 260 | | gram of the National Science Foundation established by 14 |
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| 261 | 261 | | section 3(a) of the Scientific and Advanced-Technology 15 |
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| 262 | 262 | | Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–476) for fiscal year 2026 16 |
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| 263 | 263 | | should be an amount equal to not less than 110 percent 17 |
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| 264 | 264 | | of the amount expended for such division for fiscal year 18 |
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| 265 | 265 | | 2024. 19 |
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| 266 | 266 | | SEC. 7. CYBERSECURITY TRAINING INCENTIVE FOR GOV-20 |
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| 267 | 267 | | ERNMENT CONTRACTS. 21 |
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| 268 | 268 | | (a) I |
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| 269 | 269 | | NGENERAL.—The head of an executive agency 22 |
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| 270 | 270 | | shall award a five percent score increase to each competi-23 |
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| 271 | 271 | | tive proposal submitted by a qualified offeror for the eval-24 |
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| 272 | 272 | | uation of a competitive proposal received in response to 25 |
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| 277 | 277 | | $5,000,000. 2 |
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| 278 | 278 | | (b) A |
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| 279 | 279 | | PPLICABILITY.—This section shall apply with 3 |
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| 280 | 280 | | respect to any solicitation issued on an after the date of 4 |
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| 281 | 281 | | the enactment of this Act. 5 |
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| 282 | 282 | | (c) D |
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| 283 | 283 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 6 |
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| 284 | 284 | | (1) E |
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| 285 | 285 | | XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 7 |
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| 286 | 286 | | agency’’ has the meaning given that term in section 8 |
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| 287 | 287 | | 102 of title 40, United States Code. 9 |
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| 288 | 288 | | (2) Q |
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| 289 | 289 | | UALIFIED OFFEROR.—The term ‘‘qualified 10 |
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| 290 | 290 | | offeror’’ means a business that has claimed the em-11 |
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| 291 | 291 | | ployee cybersecurity education credit under section 12 |
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| 292 | 292 | | 45BB of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as 13 |
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| 293 | 293 | | added by section 3, at least once within the three- 14 |
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| 294 | 294 | | year period preceding the date on which the business 15 |
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| 295 | 295 | | submits a competitive proposal for a contract valued 16 |
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| 296 | 296 | | in excess of $5,000,000. 17 |
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