I 
119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2447 
To increase cybersecurity education and job growth, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 27, 2025 
Mr. LIEU (for himself, Ms. TOKUDA, and Mrs. TORRES of 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-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘New Collar Jobs Act of 2025’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
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. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress find the following: 
(1) Domestic factory output has increased by 
21 percent since June 2009, but manufacturing em-
ployment has only increased 5 percent during that 
time, and has been flat since late 2014. 
(2) As manufacturers leverage new technologies 
from robotics to distributed control systems to create 
modern factories and industrial plants, different em-
ployment requirements have emerged including the 
need for cybersecurity talent. 
(3) Leading cybersecurity experts have reported 
a spike of 250 percent in industrial automation and 
control system cyber-incidents occurring during the 
period between 2011 and 2015 and as a result are 
seeking personnel with knowledge of their industry 
coupled with knowledge of security technology to 
prevent their organization from becoming victims of 
cyber-attacks. 
SEC. 3. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subpart D of part IV of sub-
chapter A of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
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1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new 
section: 
‘‘SEC. 45BB. EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDUCATION. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of section 38, the 
employee cybersecurity education credit determined under 
this section for the taxable year is an amount equal to 
50 percent of the aggregate qualified employee cybersecu-
rity education expenses paid or incurred by the employer 
during such taxable year. 
‘‘(b) LIMITATION.—The amount allowed as a credit 
under subsection (a) for the taxable year with respect to 
an employee shall not exceed $5,000. 
‘‘(c) QUALIFIED EMPLOYEE CYBERSECURITY EDU-
CATION EXPENSES.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘qualified employee cybersecurity education expenses’ 
means amounts paid or incurred for each employee who 
earns a certificate or degree at the undergraduate or grad-
uate level or industry-recognized certification relating to 
those specialty areas and work roles that are listed in 
NCWF Work Roles in the document entitled, ‘NICE Cy-
bersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF)’, published by 
the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education 
(NICE) of the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology. 
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‘‘(d) CERTAIN RULES TO APPLY.—Rules similar to 
the rules of subsections (i)(1) and (k) of section 51 shall 
apply for purposes of this section.’’. 
(b) CREDIT MADE PART OF GENERAL BUSINESS 
CREDIT.—Subsection (b) of section 38 of such Code is 
amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘plus’’ at the end of paragraph 
(40), 
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (41) and inserting a comma, and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (41) the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(42) the employee cybersecurity education 
credit determined under section 45BB(a), plus’’. 
(c) DENIAL OF DOUBLE BENEFIT.—Subsection (a) 
of section 280C of such Code is amended by inserting 
‘‘45BB(a),’’ after ‘‘45S(a),’’. 
(d) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
for subpart D of part IV of subchapter A of chapter 1 
of such Code is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new item: 
‘‘Sec. 45BB. Employee cybersecurity education.’’. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply to individuals commencing appren-
ticeship programs after the date of the enactment of this 
Act. 
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SEC. 4. STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CERTAIN CYBER-
SECURITY EMPLOYEES. 
Section 455 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 
U.S.C. 1087e) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(q) LOAN REPAYMENT FOR CYBERSECURITY WORK-
ERS IN ECONOMICALLY DISTRESSED AREA.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall cancel 
the amount described in paragraph (2) of the bal-
ance of interest and principal due, in accordance 
with such paragraph, on any eligible Federal Direct 
Loan not in default for a borrower who— 
‘‘(A) makes 36 consecutive monthly pay-
ments on the eligible Federal Direct Loan after 
the date of the enactment of this section pursu-
ant to any one or a combination of the fol-
lowing— 
‘‘(i) payments under an income-based 
repayment plan under section 493C; 
‘‘(ii) payments under a standard re-
payment plan under subsection (d)(1)(A), 
based on a 10-year repayment period; 
‘‘(iii) monthly payments under a re-
payment plan under subsection (d)(1) or 
(g) of not less than the monthly amount 
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