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S 3037 110th Congress Senate

ACTION Act

Official title: A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to improve the educational awards provided for national service, and for other purposes.

Introduced: May 20, 2008 See on congress.gov
Education Cabinet officersCommerceCorporation for National and Community ServiceEconomics and Public Finance
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Executive compensationExecutive reorganizationFederal aid to educationFederal officialsGovernment Operations and PoliticsGovernment corporationsHigher educationIncome taxNational serviceSalariesScholarshipsSocial WelfareTax exclusionTaxation
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May 20, 2008
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 20, 2008
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4488-4489)
May 20, 2008
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action May 20, 2008

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

AmeriCorps: Together Improving Our Nation Act or the ACTION Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to alter the formula for determining the amount of the national service educational award to base the award on the average cost of attending a four-year institution of higher education, rather than a portion of a veteran's basic educational assistance allowance.

Excludes the national service educational award from an individual's gross income for tax purposes.

Permits the Corporation for National and Community Service to support a national service program that is carried out by another federal agency and implements the priorities of such agency.

Makes Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation a Cabinet position. Raises the Officer's compensation to Level I of the Executive Schedule.

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Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · May 20, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3037: ACTION Act. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-3037/
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"S. 3037: ACTION Act." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-S-3037/.
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