Training and Workforce
Lawmakers Offer Bill To Open 529s to Pilot/Mx Training
Collins reintroduced the legislation that previously died in the last Congress
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U.S. Rep. Mike Collins (R-Georgia) reintroduced legislation to permit FAA-certified commercial pilot and aircraft maintenance technical training qualified expenses for 529 college savings plans. Collins had previously offered the bill, the Aviation Workforce Development Act, in 2023, but in the absence of a major tax package it made little progress. However, it did accrue 162 co-sponsors in the last Congress, suggesting a significant amount of support.

The latest introduction of H.R.1818 comes as Congress is assembling a tax bill that could serve as a potential venue for such a measure. Joining Collins in the introduction of the bill this year are Reps. Lucy McBath (D-Georgia), Jimmy Panetta (D-California), and Mike Kelly (R-Pennsylvania), who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee’s tax subcommittee.

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