ACTION for National Service Act
America's Call To Improve Opportunities Now for National Service Act or the ACTION for National Service Act
This bill (1) converts the Corporation for National and Community Service into the National and Community Service Administration; (2) reauthorizes programs carried out by the administration; (3) establishes a National Service Foundation to accept and administer gifts on behalf of the administration; and (4) modifies the calculation of national service educational awards.
Furthermore, the bill
- creates a 21st Century American Service Outreach Program to notify individuals age 17 and not more than age 30 about their eligibility to participate in national 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.
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.