119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 494


To amend the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 to make improvements to the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service Program, and for other purposes.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 16, 2025

Mr. Connolly (for himself and Mr. Strong) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology


A BILL

To amend the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 to make improvements to the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service Program, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. Improvements to Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service Program.

Section 302 of the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 (15 U.S.C. 7442) is amended—

(1) in subsection (c), by striking “3 years” and inserting “5 years”; and

(2) in subsection (j), in the matter preceding paragraph (1)—

(A) by striking “A loan described subsection (i)” and inserting “The full amount of a loan described in subsection (i), regardless of any other limitations placed on such loans under part D of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.) or any implementing regulation, order, or policy,”; and

(B) in paragraph (1), by striking “part D of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087a et seq.)” and inserting “such part”.