Official Summaries

This bill makes certain changes to the CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program, including increasing available scholarship amounts to cover up to five years of eligible tuition. 

The program offers scholarships to students pursuing higher education in cybersecurity and related fields, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and aerospace. Under current law, the scholarship covers up to three years of tuition. Recipients must generally commit to work in cybersecurity for a government agency or institution of higher education following completion of their degree program for a period equivalent to the duration of the scholarship. If a recipient fails to fulfill the postgraduation work requirements, some or all of the scholarship must be repaid or treated as a loan. 

The bill also provides statutory authority for the National Science Foundation to treat as a Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loan the full amount of any scholarship award that is treated as a loan. Under current law, Federal Direct Unsubsidized Loans are subject to certain conditions (e.g., interest rates and repayment schedules) and are eligible for student loan forgiveness under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 494 Introduced in House (IH)]

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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.


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                    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

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                                 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''.
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