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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2447
To increase cybersecurity education and job growth, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH27, 2025
Mr. L
IEU(for himself, Ms. TOKUDA, and Mrs. TORRESof California) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science,
Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and
Means, Education and Workforce, and Oversight and Government Re-
form, 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 increase cybersecurity education and job growth, 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
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3
(a) S
HORTTITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 4
‘‘New Collar Jobs Act of 2025’’. 5
(b) T
ABLE OFCONTENTS.—The table of contents for 6
this Act is as follows: 7
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings.
Sec. 3. Employee cybersecurity education.
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Sec. 4. Student loan repayment for certain cybersecurity employees.
Sec. 5. CyberCorps scholarship-for-service program.
Sec. 6. Increased funding for Advanced Technology Education program.
Sec. 7. Cybersecurity training incentive for Government contracts.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
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Congress find the following: 2
(1) Domestic factory output has increased by 3
21 percent since June 2009, but manufacturing em-4
ployment has only increased 5 percent during that 5
time, and has been flat since late 2014. 6
(2) As manufacturers leverage new technologies 7
from robotics to distributed control systems to create 8
modern factories and industrial plants, different em-9
ployment requirements have emerged including the 10
need for cybersecurity talent. 11
(3) Leading cybersecurity experts have reported 12
a spike of 250 percent in industrial automation and 13
control system cyber-incidents occurring during the 14
period between 2011 and 2015 and as a result are 15
seeking personnel with knowledge of their industry 16
coupled with knowledge of security technology to 17
prevent their organization from becoming victims of 18
cyber-attacks. 19
SEC. 3. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 20
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Subpart D of part IV of sub-21
chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 22
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1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 1
section: 2
‘‘SEC. 45BB. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 3
‘‘(a) I
NGENERAL.—For purposes of section 38, the 4
employee cybersecurity education credit determined under 5
this section for the taxable year is an amount equal to 6
50 percent of the aggregate qualified employee cybersecu-7
rity education expenses paid or incurred by the employer 8
during such taxable year. 9
‘‘(b) L
IMITATION.—The amount allowed as a credit 10
under subsection (a) for the taxable year with respect to 11
an employee shall not exceed $5,000. 12
‘‘(c) Q
UALIFIEDEMPLOYEECYBERSECURITYEDU-13
CATIONEXPENSES.—For purposes of this section, the 14
term ‘qualified employee cybersecurity education expenses’ 15
means amounts paid or incurred for each employee who 16
earns a certificate or degree at the undergraduate or grad-17
uate level or industry-recognized certification relating to 18
those specialty areas and work roles that are listed in 19
NCWF Work Roles in the document entitled, ‘NICE Cy-20
bersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF)’, published by 21
the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 22
(NICE) of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-23
nology. 24
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‘‘(d) CERTAINRULESTOAPPLY.—Rules similar to 1
the rules of subsections (i)(1) and (k) of section 51 shall 2
apply for purposes of this section.’’. 3
(b) C
REDITMADEPART OFGENERALBUSINESS 4
C
REDIT.—Subsection (b) of section 38 of such Code is 5
amended— 6
(1) by striking ‘‘plus’’ at the end of paragraph 7
(40), 8
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-9
graph (41) and inserting a comma, and 10
(3) by inserting after paragraph (41) the fol-11
lowing new paragraph: 12
‘‘(42) the employee cybersecurity education 13
credit determined under section 45BB(a), plus’’. 14
(c) D
ENIAL OFDOUBLEBENEFIT.—Subsection (a) 15
of section 280C of such Code is amended by inserting 16
‘‘45BB(a),’’ after ‘‘45S(a),’’. 17
(d) C
LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 18
for subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 19
of such Code is amended by adding at the end the fol-20
lowing new item: 21
‘‘Sec. 45BB. Employee cybersecurity education.’’.
(e) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 22
this section shall apply to individuals commencing appren-23
ticeship programs after the date of the enactment of this 24
Act. 25
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SEC. 4. STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN CYBER-1
SECURITY EMPLOYEES. 2
Section 455 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 3
U.S.C. 1087e) is amended by adding at the end the fol-4
lowing: 5
‘‘(q) L
OANREPAYMENT FORCYBERSECURITYWORK-6
ERS INECONOMICALLYDISTRESSEDAREA.— 7
‘‘(1) I
N GENERAL.—The Secretary shall cancel 8
the amount described in paragraph (2) of the bal-9
ance of interest and principal due, in accordance 10
with such paragraph, on any eligible Federal Direct 11
Loan not in default for a borrower who— 12
‘‘(A) makes 36 consecutive monthly pay-13
ments on the eligible Federal Direct Loan after 14
the date of the enactment of this section pursu-15
ant to any one or a combination of the fol-16
lowing— 17
‘‘(i) payments under an income-based 18
repayment plan under section 493C; 19
‘‘(ii) payments under a standard re-20
payment plan under subsection (d)(1)(A), 21
based on a 10-year repayment period; 22
‘‘(iii) monthly payments under a re-23
payment plan under subsection (d)(1) or 24
(g) of not less than the monthly amount 25
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calculated under subsection (d)(1)(A), 1
based on a 10-year repayment period; or 2
‘‘(iv) payments under an income con-3
tingent repayment plan under subsection 4
(d)(1)(D); and 5
‘‘(B) during the period in which the bor-6
rower makes each of the 36 consecutive month-7
ly payments described in subparagraph (A), has 8
been employed in a cybersecurity job— 9
‘‘(i) located in an area that, for at 10
least 12 of such consecutive monthly pay-11
ments is an economically distressed area; 12
and 13
‘‘(ii) that requires that the borrower 14
work in the economically distressed area no 15
less than 60 percent of total work hours. 16
‘‘(2) C
ANCELLATION AMOUNT .—After the con-17
clusion of the employment period described in para-18
graph (1), the Secretary shall cancel the lesser of 19
the following: 20
‘‘(A) The obligation to repay the balance of 21
principal and interest due as of the time of such 22
cancellation, on the eligible Federal Direct 23
Loans made to the borrower under this part. 24
‘‘(B) $25,000. 25
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‘‘(3) INELIGIBILITY OF DOUBLE BENEFITS .— 1
No borrower may, for the same service, receive a re-2
duction of loan obligations under both this sub-3
section and— 4
‘‘(A) subsection (m); or 5
‘‘(B) section 428J, 428K, 428L, or 460. 6
‘‘(4) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 7
‘‘(A) C
YBERSECURITY JOB.—The term ‘cy-8
bersecurity job’ means— 9
‘‘(i) a skill role as defined in the 10
NCWF Work Roles by the National Initia-11
tive for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) 12
Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 13
(NCWF) of the National Institute of 14
Standards and Technology, Special Publi-15
cation 800–181, or any successor docu-16
ment; or 17
‘‘(ii) teaching a cybersecurity course 18
for a skill role described in clause (i). 19
‘‘(B) E
CONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA .— 20
The term ‘economically distressed area’ means 21
an area that meets one or more criteria under 22
section 301(a) of the Public Works and Eco-23
nomic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 24
3161(a)).’’. 25
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SEC. 5. CYBERCORPS SCHOLARSHIP-FOR-SERVICE PRO-1
GRAM. 2
(a) F
UNDINGINCREASE.—It is the sense of the Con-3
gress that the number of scholarships awarded by the Na-4
tional Science Foundation for scholarships awarded under 5
the Federal cyber scholarship-for-service program estab-6
lished by section 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement 7
Act of 2014 for fiscal year 2026 and each succeeding fiscal 8
year should be not less than double the number of such 9
scholarships awarded for fiscal year 2024. 10
(b) C
YBERSECURITY COURSEINSTRUCTION.—Sec-11
tion 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 12
(15 U.S.C. 7442) is amended— 13
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and security 14
managers’’ and inserting ‘‘security managers, and 15
cybersecurity course instructors,’’; and 16
(2) in subsection (d), by adding after paragraph 17
(6) the following: 18
‘‘Such work may include teaching a cybersecurity course 19
for a skill role as defined in the NCWF Work Roles by 20
the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 21
(NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) of 22
the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Spe-23
cial Publication 800–181, or any successor document.’’. 24
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(c) ELIMINATION OFPRIORITY FORFEDERALGOV-1
ERNMENTEMPLOYMENT PLACEMENTS.—Section 302(b) 2
of such Act (15 U.S.C. 7442(b)) is amended— 3
(1) in paragraph (2), by adding ‘‘and’’ at the 4
end; 5
(2) by striking paragraph (3); and 6
(3) by redesignating paragraph (4) as para-7
graph (3). 8
SEC. 6. INCREASED FUNDING FOR ADVANCED TECH-9
NOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM. 10
It is the sense of the Congress that the amount ex-11
pended for the Information Technology and Cybersecurity 12
Division of the Advanced Technological Education pro-13
gram of the National Science Foundation established by 14
section 3(a) of the Scientific and Advanced-Technology 15
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–476) for fiscal year 2026 16
should be an amount equal to not less than 110 percent 17
of the amount expended for such division for fiscal year 18
2024. 19
SEC. 7. CYBERSECURITY TRAINING INCENTIVE FOR GOV-20
ERNMENT CONTRACTS. 21
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The head of an executive agency 22
shall award a five percent score increase to each competi-23
tive proposal submitted by a qualified offeror for the eval-24
uation of a competitive proposal received in response to 25
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a solicitation for a contract valued in excess of 1
$5,000,000. 2
(b) A
PPLICABILITY.—This section shall apply with 3
respect to any solicitation issued on an after the date of 4
the enactment of this Act. 5
(c) D
EFINITIONS.—In this section: 6
(1) E
XECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 7
agency’’ has the meaning given that term in section 8
102 of title 40, United States Code. 9
(2) Q
UALIFIED OFFEROR.—The term ‘‘qualified 10
offeror’’ means a business that has claimed the em-11
ployee cybersecurity education credit under section 12
45BB of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as 13
added by section 3, at least once within the three- 14
year period preceding the date on which the business 15
submits a competitive proposal for a contract valued 16
in excess of $5,000,000. 17
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