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<dc:title>119 HR 1818 IH: Aviation Workforce Development Act</dc:title>
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<dc:date>2025-03-03</dc:date>
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<distribution-code display="yes">I</distribution-code><congress display="yes">119th CONGRESS</congress><session display="yes">1st Session</session><legis-num display="yes">H. R. 1818</legis-num><current-chamber>IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES</current-chamber><action display="yes"><action-date date="20250303">March 3, 2025</action-date><action-desc><sponsor name-id="C001129">Mr. Collins</sponsor> (for himself, <cosponsor name-id="P000613">Mr. Panetta</cosponsor>, <cosponsor name-id="K000376">Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania</cosponsor>, and <cosponsor name-id="M001208">Mrs. McBath</cosponsor>) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the <committee-name committee-id="HWM00">Committee on Ways and Means</committee-name></action-desc></action><legis-type>A BILL</legis-type><official-title display="yes">To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow qualified distributions from qualified tuition programs for certain aviation maintenance and commercial pilot courses.</official-title></form><legis-body id="H43F7201D8421429D81232C99D0AFE36F" style="OLC"><section id="H5143DFEF35D34EE583BF7FC900E8C020" section-type="section-one"><enum>1.</enum><header>Short title</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">This Act may be cited as the <quote><short-title>Aviation Workforce Development Act</short-title></quote>. </text></section><section id="HB3F4FF6AD3174F98817600F5F2832CE1"><enum>2.</enum><header>Qualified distributions from qualified tuition programs for certain aviation maintenance and commercial pilot courses</header><subsection id="HDC82F3705D3B4670ABEC418F0934D604"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/529">Section 529(c)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:</text><quoted-block style="OLC" id="H2ADF7DA475D941E8BC2DFADFE9DCA363" display-inline="no-display-inline"><paragraph id="H6A06034DA98541488010832BE2BD2207"><enum>(10)</enum><header>Treatment of certain aviation maintenance and commercial pilot courses</header><subparagraph id="H9DD7E208AD3B409FB166F04C8D9929EB"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any reference in this subsection to the term <quote>qualified higher education expense</quote> shall include a reference to expenses for tuition, fees, books, supplies, and equipment required for the participation of a designated beneficiary in a qualified aviation maintenance course or a qualified commercial pilot course.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE19F91B5570C4B399FBB3195ABFE98ED"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Qualified aviation maintenance course</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this paragraph, the term <quote>qualified aviation maintenance course</quote> means any course of instruction taught at an aviation maintenance technician school governed by part 147 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC9DFE722555B472E8C0C618DC7B9110E"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Qualified commercial pilot course</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The term <quote>qualified commercial pilot course</quote> means a commercial pilot course taught at a flight school that provides flight training, as defined in part 61 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations, or that holds a pilot school certificate under part 141 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.</text></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block></subsection><subsection id="H24345509D3F443C5AE45C94273B94897"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendment made by this section shall apply to distributions made after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text></subsection></section></legis-body></bill> 

