US Congress Senate Bill 994 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on April 2 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-04-02 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2190-2191)
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

(1) converts the Corporation for National and Community Service into the National and Community Service Administration and revises its membership, leadership, and authority; (2) reauthorizes programs carried out by the administration; (3) establishes a National Service Foundation to accept and administer gifts on behalf of the administration; (4) modifies the calculation of national service educational awards; and (5) otherwise modifies provisions related to national and volunteer service programs. Additionally, the bill creates a 21st Century American Service Outreach Program to notify individuals age 17 and not more than age 30 of opportunities to participate in and apply for such national and volunteer service programs; increases living stipends for such volunteers and the cap on such full-time positions; provides a living allowance to members of the National Civilian Community Corps, under specified conditions; and provides an exclusion from gross income, for income tax purposes, for such educational awards and living allowances.

ACTION for National Service Act America’s Call To Improve Opportunities Now for National Service Act

Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Christopher Coons [D-DE]	Sen. Tammy Duckworth [D-IL]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-04-02	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S2190-2191)

HB3464 (Related) 2019-06-25 - Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/994/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s994/BILLS-116s994is.pdf