HR 2447

Summary

New Collar Jobs Act of 2025 This bill provides incentives for cybersecurity education. Specifically, the bill establishes an employee cybersecurity education tax credit for an employer who incurs costs for an employee who earns a certain cybersecurity certificate or degree. If a business claims such a credit, then federal agencies must award a score increase to each competitive proposal submitted by the business for a federal contract valued at more than $5 million. In addition, the Department of Education must cancel eligible student loans for borrowers who have (1) made 36 consecutive monthly payments, and (2) held a cybersecurity job in an economically distressed area during at least 12 months of payments. Finally, the bill makes cybersecurity course instructors eligible for awards under the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program.

Bill status

Status

In committee

Sponsor

Rep. Ted Lieu [D-CA-36]

Cosponsors

2

Policy area

Labor and Employment

Introduced

2025-03-27

Latest action

2025-03-27: 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.

Committee referrals

• Oversight and Government Reform Committee: House · Referred To · 2025-03-27
• Education and Workforce Committee: House · Referred To · 2025-03-27
• Ways and Means Committee: House · Referred To · 2025-03-27
• Science, Space, and Technology Committee: House · Referred To · 2025-03-27

Recent actions

• 2025-03-27: 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.
• 2025-03-27: 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.
• 2025-03-27: 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.
• 2025-03-27: 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.
• 2025-03-27: Introduced in House