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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 334 

To increase cybersecurity education and job growth, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 8, 2019 

Mr. TED LIEU of California (for himself, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Ms. KUSTER of 

New Hampshire, and Mrs. TORRES of California) introduced 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 Labor, and Oversight and Reform, 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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

4 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 

5 ‘‘New Collar Jobs Act of 2019’’. 

6 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 

7 this Act is as follows: 

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. 

1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress find the following: 

3 (1) Domestic factory output has increased by 

4 21 percent since June 2009, but manufacturing em5 ployment has only increased 5 percent during that 

6 time, and has been flat since late 2014. 

7 (2) As manufacturers leverage new technologies 

8 from robotics to distributed control systems to create 

9 modern factories and industrial plants, different em10 ployment requirements have emerged including the 

11 need for cybersecurity talent. 

12 (3) Leading cybersecurity experts have reported 

13 spike of 250 percent in industrial automation and 

14 control system cyber-incidents occurring during the 

15 period between 2011 and 2015 and as a result are 

16 seeking personnel with knowledge of their industry 

17 coupled with knowledge of security technology to 

18 prevent their organization from becoming victims of 

19 cyber-attacks. 

20 SEC. 3. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 

21 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart D of part IV of sub22 chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 


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1 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 

2 section: 

3 ‘‘SEC. 45S. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 

4 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of section 38, the 

5 employee cybersecurity education credit determined under 

6 this section for the taxable year is an amount equal to 

7 50 percent of the aggregate qualified employee cybersecu8 rity education expenses paid or incurred by the employer 

9 during such taxable year. 

10 ‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—The amount allowed as a credit 

11 under subsection (a) for the taxable year with respect to 

12 an employee shall not exceed $5,000. 

13 ‘‘(c) QUALIFIED EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDU14 CATION EXPENSES.—For purposes of this section, the 

15 term ‘qualified employee cybersecurity education expenses’ 

16 means amounts paid or incurred for each employee who 

17 earns a certificate or degree at the undergraduate or grad18 uate level or industry-recognized certification relating to 

19 those specialty areas and work roles that are listed in 

20 NCWF Work Roles in the document entitled, ‘NICE Cy21 bersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF)’, published by 

22 the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 

23 (NICE) of the National Institute of Standards and Tech24 nology. 


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1 ‘‘(d) CERTAIN RULES TO APPLY.—Rules similar to 

2 the rules of subsections (i)(1) and (k) of section 51 shall 

3 apply for purposes of this section.’’. 

4 (b) CREDIT MADE PART OF GENERAL BUSINESS

5 CREDIT.—Subsection (b) of section 38 of such Code is 

6 amended by striking ‘‘plus’’ at the end of paragraph (35), 

7 by striking the period at the end of paragraph (36) and 

8 inserting ‘‘, plus’’, and by adding at the end the following 

9 new paragraph: 

10 ‘‘(37) the employee cybersecurity education 

11 credit determined under section 45S(a).’’. 

12 (c) DENIAL OF DOUBLE BENEFIT.—Subsection (a) 

13 of section 280C of such Code is amended by inserting 

14 ‘‘45S(a),’’ after ‘‘45P(a),’’. 

15 (d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 

16 for subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 

17 of such Code is amended by adding at the end the fol18 lowing new item: 

‘‘Sec. 45S. Employee cybersecurity education.’’. 

19 (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 

20 this section shall apply to individuals commencing appren21 ticeship programs after the date of the enactment of this 

22 Act. 


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1 SEC. 4. STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN CYBER2 SECURITY EMPLOYEES. 

3 Section 455 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 

4 U.S.C. 1087e) is amended by adding at the end the fol5 lowing: 

6 ‘‘(r) LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CYBERSECURITY WORK7 ERS IN ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA.— 

8 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall cancel 

9 the amount described in paragraph (2) of the bal10 ance of interest and principal due, in accordance 

11 with such paragraph, on any eligible Federal Direct 

12 Loan not in default for a borrower who— 

13 ‘‘(A) makes 36 consecutive monthly pay14 ments on the eligible Federal Direct Loan after 

15 the date of the enactment of this section pursu16 ant to any one or a combination of the fol17 lowing— 

18 ‘‘(i) payments under an income-based 

19 repayment plan under section 493C; 

20 ‘‘(ii) payments under a standard re21 payment plan under subsection (d)(1)(A), 

22 based on a 10-year repayment period; 

23 ‘‘(iii) monthly payments under a re24 payment plan under subsection (d)(1) or 

25 (g) of not less than the monthly amount 


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1 calculated under subsection (d)(1)(A), 

2 based on a 10-year repayment period; or 

3 ‘‘(iv) payments under an income con4 tingent repayment plan under subsection 

5 (d)(1)(D); and 

6 ‘‘(B) during the period in which the bor7 rower makes each of the 36 consecutive month8 ly payments described in subparagraph (A), has 

9 been employed in a cybersecurity job— 

10 ‘‘(i) located in an area that, for at 

11 least 12 of such consecutive monthly pay12 ments is an economically distressed area; 

13 and 

14 ‘‘(ii) that requires that the borrower 

15 work in the economically distressed area no 

16 less than 60 percent of total work hours. 

17 ‘‘(2) CANCELLATION AMOUNT.—After the con18 clusion of the employment period described in para19 graph (1), the Secretary shall cancel the lesser of 

20 the following: 

21 ‘‘(A) The obligation to repay the balance of 

22 principal and interest due as of the time of such 

23 cancellation, on the eligible Federal Direct 

24 Loans made to the borrower under this part. 

25 ‘‘(B) $25,000. 


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1 ‘‘(3) INELIGIBILITY OF DOUBLE BENEFITS.— 

2 No borrower may, for the same service, receive a re3 duction of loan obligations under both this sub4 section and— 

5 ‘‘(A) subsection (m); or 

6 ‘‘(B) section 428J, 428K, 428L, or 460. 

7 ‘‘(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

8 ‘‘(A) CYBERSECURITY JOB.—The term ‘cy9 bersecurity job’ means— 

10 ‘‘(i) a skill role as defined in the 

11 NCWF Work Roles by the National Initia12 tive for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) 

13 Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 

14 (NCWF) of the National Institute of 

15 Standards and Technology, Special Publi16 cation 800–181, or any successor docu17 ment; or 

18 ‘‘(ii) teaching a cybersecurity course 

19 for a skill role described in clause (i). 

20 ‘‘(B) ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA.— 

21 The term ‘economically distressed area’ means 

22 an area that meets one or more criteria under 

23 section 301(a) of the Public Works and Eco24 nomic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 

25 3161(a)).’’. 


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1 SEC. 5. CYBERCORPS SCHOLARSHIP-FOR-SERVICE PRO2 GRAM. 

3 (a) FUNDING INCREASE.—It is the sense of the Con4 gress that the number of scholarships awarded by the Na5 tional Science Foundation for scholarships awarded under 

6 the Federal cyber scholarship-for-service program estab7 lished by section 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement 

8 Act of 2014 for fiscal year 2019 and each succeeding fiscal 

9 year should be not less than double the number of such 

10 scholarships awarded for fiscal year 2018. 

11 (b) CYBERSECURITY COURSE INSTRUCTION.—Sec12 tion 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 

13 (15 U.S.C. 7442) is amended— 

14 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘and security 

15 managers’’ and inserting ‘‘security managers, and 

16 cybersecurity course instructors,’’; and 

17 (2) in subsection (d), by adding at the end the 

18 following: ‘‘Such work may include teaching a cyber19 security course for a skill role as defined in the 

20 NCWF Work Roles by the National Initiative for 

21 Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity 

22 Workforce Framework (NCWF) of the National In23 stitute of Standards and Technology, Special Publi24 cation 800–181, or any successor document.’’. 


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1 (c) ELIMINATION OF PRIORITY FOR FEDERAL GOV2 ERNMENT EMPLOYMENT PLACEMENTS.—Section 302(b) 

3 of such Act (15 U.S.C. 7442(b)) is amended— 

4 (1) in paragraph (1), by adding ‘‘and’’ at the 

5 end; 

6 (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘; and’’ and 

7 inserting a period; and 

8 (3) by striking paragraph (3). 

9 SEC. 6. INCREASED FUNDING FOR ADVANCED TECH10 NOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM. 

11 It is the sense of the Congress that the amount ex12 pended for the Information Technology and Cybersecurity 

13 Division of the Advanced Technological Education pro14 gram of the National Science Foundation established by 

15 section 3(a) of the Scientific and Advanced-Technology 

16 Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–476) for fiscal year 2019 

17 should be an amount equal to not less than 110 percent 

18 of the amount expended for such division for fiscal year 

19 2018. 

20 SEC. 7. CYBERSECURITY TRAINING INCENTIVE FOR GOV21 ERNMENT CONTRACTS. 

22 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart 15.3 of the Federal Ac23 quisition Regulation shall be revised to require, in the eval24 uation of a competitive proposal received in response to 

25 a solicitation for a contract valued in excess of 


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1 $5,000,000, that the head of an executive agency award 

2 a five percent score increase to each competitive proposal 

3 submitted by a qualified offeror. 

4 (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 

5 (1) EXECUTIVE AGENCY.—The term ‘‘executive 

6 agency’’ has the meaning given that term in section 

7 102 of title 40, United States Code. 

8 (2) QUALIFIED OFFEROR.—The term ‘‘qualified 

9 offeror’’ means a business that has claimed the em10 ployee cybersecurity education credit under section 

11 45S of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as added 

12 by section 3, at least once within the three-year pe13 riod preceding the date on which the business sub14 mits a competitive proposal for a contract valued in 

15 excess of $5,000,000. 

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