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Creates new incentives to grow the U.S. cybersecurity workforce, especially for modern manufacturing and other critical industries. Employers get a new tax credit to cover half the cost (up to $5,000 per worker per year) when they pay for employees to earn cybersecurity degrees, certificates, or industry certifications aligned to the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework.
Offers limited student loan relief for cybersecurity workers who spend substantial time working in economically distressed areas after the law takes effect. Encourages the National Science Foundation to expand CyberCorps scholarships and ATE program funding. Gives a 5% evaluation score boost in federal contract competitions over $5 million to companies that claimed the new employer cybersecurity education tax credit within the prior three years.
Amends subsection (a) to add 'cybersecurity course instructors' to the list of professionals the Federal Cyber Scholarship-for-Service Program recruits and trains.
Adds a new subsection (q) to 20 U.S.C. 1087e establishing loan cancellation (up to $25,000) for eligible Federal Direct Loan borrowers who meet specified repayment, employment, and geographic (economically distressed area) requirements for cybersecurity jobs, and prohibits receiving the same benefit for the same service under certain other provisions.
Adds new section 45BB (Employee cybersecurity education) establishing a tax credit equal to 50% of qualified employee cybersecurity education expenses, with a $5,000 per-employee limit and definitions referencing the NCWF.
Amends subsection (b) to add the employee cybersecurity education credit as a new paragraph (42) to be included in the general business credit.
Amends subsection (a) of section 280C by inserting additional text (specific insertion text not provided in section).
Amends the table of sections for subpart D by adding an item for the new section 45BB.
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 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.
Introduced March 27, 2025 by Ted Lieu · Last progress March 27, 2025