During the inaugural CEDIA Smart Home Day on Capitol Hill in 2024, board members, executives, and industry leaders engaged in pivotal discussions with U.S. political leaders to introduce CEDIA and advocate for critical issues facing the industry. Photo by Aileen Taylor.
The bipartisan “Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act” has been included in the federal tax bill (H.R. 1) following two years of in-person and ongoing lobbying by CEDIA. Hundreds of members have further amplified the effort by writing letters to their congressional representatives.
The “Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act” would expand the use of 529 savings accounts to cover workforce technical training and credentialing programs, directly benefiting individual workers and the smart home technology industry.
On March 27, 2025, CEDIA engaged in a series of bipartisan meetings during CEDIA on the Hill Day, where the “Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act” was a key advocacy priority. Two months after these meetings, on May 22, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the federal tax package (H.R. 1), which includes language from the “Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act.”
The legislation is now under consideration in the U.S. Senate, and CEDIA is urging members to contact their U.S. Senators and advocate for inclusion of the “Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act” language in the final tax bill.
CEDIA’s Government Affairs team has created a pre-populated letter that advocates can complete in under two minutes and send directly to their U.S. Senators. The form is accessible now through June 27, 2025, via the CEDIA Action Center.
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