Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act

To reauthorize and reform the national service laws.

3/10/2008--Introduced.
Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, or the GIVE Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (NSCA) and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (DVSA) to revise the programs under such Acts and reauthorize appropriations for more... such programs through FY2012. Revises under NSCA:
(1) the School-Based and Community-Based Service-Learning programs and Higher Education Innovative Programs for Community Service (Learn and Serve programs);
(2) National Service Trust programs (AmeriCorps);
(3) the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC); and
(4) the Investment for Quality and Innovation program. Eliminates the current Community-Based Learn and Serve programs. Establishes a new Learn and Serve program, Innovative Service-Learning Programs and Research, providing matching grants to:
(1) provide community service-learning opportunities to elementary and secondary, college, and graduate students, including summer of service programs; and
(2) research and evaluate service-learning. Includes among eligible AmeriCorps programs:
(1) an E-corp program increasing community access to technology;
(2) a program engaging citizens in public safety, health, and emergency preparedness services;
(3) a youth mentoring program;
(4) a program to reduce recidivism by re-engaging court-involved youth; and
(5) the Education Awards Only program. Establishes an AmeriCorp pilot grant program for state-approved, member-selected, national service positions. Increases National Service educational awards for AmeriCorps, NCCC, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) participants. Includes among needs to be met under the NCCC program, disaster relief, infrastructure improvement, environmental and energy conservation, and urban and rural development. Requires states to develop comprehensive plans for volunteer and paid service by Baby Boomers and older adults. Establishes an Office of Outreach and Recruitment in the Corporation for National and Community Service (Corporation), which shall plan pilot service programs to better utilize and serve veterans and displaced workers. Establishes matching fixed grant Innovative and Model Program Support programs within the Investment for Quality and Innovation program that include service programs for disadvantaged youth. Eliminates federal funding for the Points of Light Foundation. Establishes a new Energy Conservation Corps program awarding:
(1) matching grants to states for projects providing youth and young adults with career training in support of energy conservation, infrastructure and transportation improvement, and emergency operations;
(2) competitive grants for school-based green Learn and Serve programs; and
(3) competitive grants to National Senior Service Corps (Senior Corps) programs involving seniors in energy efficient housing, infrastructure rehabilitation, and environmental and energy conservation education projects. Revises under DVSA:
(1) the VISTA program; and
(2) the Senior Corps, including the Retired and Senior Volunteer program (RSVP), the Foster Grandparent program, and the Senior Companion program. Gives priority in VISTA participant selection to disadvantaged youth and retired adults of any profession. Authorizes new VISTA grant programs of national significance that provide poor and rural communities with:
(1) services reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals into society;
(2) financial literacy and planning;
(3) before-school and after-school services;
(4) community economic development initiatives;
(5) assistance to veterans and their families; and
(6) health and wellness services. Eliminates the VISTA Literacy Corps, University Year for VISTA, and Literacy Challenge Grant programs. Raises the minimum and maximum stipend provided to VISTA participants. Prioritizes RSVP projects in specified areas. Makes anyone 55 years of age or older eligible as Senior Corps volunteers. Provides, under the Senior Corps demonstration program, incentive matching grants to Senior Corps programs that exceed specified performance measures, enroll most of their volunteers in outcome-based service programs, and increase their enrollment of Baby Boomer volunteers. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the number of AmeriCorps, VISTA, and NCCC participants should reach 100,000 by 2012. Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act - Establishes a Congressional Commission on Civic Service to provide recommendations to Congress on improving opportunities for individuals to volunteer or perform national service. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Corporation should try to:
(1) coordinate its service programs so that senior citizens and their grandchildren can share volunteer opportunities and/or be assigned to the same geographic area; and
(2) work with the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide opportunities for young service participants to collect oral histories from senior citizens.

Sponsor

• Rep. Carolyn McCarthy [D, NY-4]
• and 27 Co-Sponsors
  • Rep. Jason Altmire [D, PA-4]
  • Rep. Robert Andrews [D, NJ-1]
  • Rep. Timothy Bishop [D, NY-1]
  • Rep. Yvette Clarke [D, NY-11]
  • Rep. Joe Courtney [D, CT-2]
  • Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
  • Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
  • Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
  • Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D, TX-15]
  • Rep. Mazie Hirono [D, HI-2]
  • Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
  • Rep. William Jefferson [D, LA-2]
  • Rep. Dale Kildee [D, MI-5]
  • Rep. Ron Klein [D, FL-22]
  • Rep. David Loebsack [D, IA-2]
  • Rep. Doris Matsui [D, CA-5]
  • Rep. Gregory Meeks [D, NY-6]
  • Rep. George Miller [D, CA-7]
  • Rep. Todd Platts [R, PA-19]
  • Rep. David Price [D, NC-4]
  • Rep. Linda Sanchez [D, CA-39]
  • Rep. John Sarbanes [D, MD-3]
  • Rep. Joe Sestak [D, PA-7]
  • Rep. Christopher Shays [R, CT-4]
  • Rep. Carol Shea-Porter [D, NH-1]
  • Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
  • Rep. John Yarmuth [D, KY-3]
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Committees

• House Education and Labor

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to H.R.5563

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Introduced		Voted on by House		Voted on by Senate		Considered By President		Bill Becomes Law
March 10, 2008		March 12, 2008

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• Urban economic development
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• Technology
• Technical education
• Summer employment
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• Student employment
• State and local government
• Social services
• Service learning
• Secondary education
• Scientific education
• Science policy
• School-age child care
• Scholarships
• Salaries
• Rural health
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• Rural affairs
• Rehabilitation of criminals
• Recidivists
• Public health
• Public contracts
• Politics and government
• Policy sciences
• Personal budgets
• Performance measurement
• Parents
• Parental consent
• Older workers
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Nonprofit organizations
• National service
• Minority education
• Minorities
• Military base closures
• Mentoring
• Mental illness
• Medicine
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• Mathematics
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• Learning
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• Labor
• Juvenile delinquency
• Job training
• Inspectors general
• Infrastructure (Economics)
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• Indians
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• Housing
• History
• Hispanic Americans
• Higher education
• Health policy
• Grievance procedures
• Grandparents
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• Government service contracts
• Government publicity
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• Government information
• Government corporations
• Gifts
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• Foster home care
• Financial services
• Financial planning
• Finance
• Federal-territorial relations
• Federal aid to education
• Federal advisory bodies
• Family services
• Families
• Executive reorganization
• Executive departments
• Ex-offenders
• Evaluation research (Social action programs)
• Environmental protection
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• Energy efficiency
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• Emergency medicine
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• Elementary education
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• Education of the disadvantaged
• Education
• Economic policy
• Drug abuse treatment
• Drug abuse
• Dropouts
• Disaster relief
• Depressed areas
• Defense economics
• Curricula
• Criminal justice
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• Cost effectiveness
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• Conferences
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• Armed forces
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• Aged
• Administrative remedies
• Elementary and secondary education

In the News

March 13, 2008 National-Service Bill Defeated in US House by One Vote

The Generations Invigorating Volunteering and Education (GIVE) Act, HR 5563 would have authorized AmeriCorps — which provides volunteers and grants to ...

Source: Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription)
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March 12, 2008 Republicans don't like paying for it

... criticizing House Republicans for defeating the GIVE Act, HR 5563, legislation that promotes volunteerism and reauthorizes national service programs. ...

Source: The State, SC
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April 04, 2008 Ohhhhh I'm Mad a Shoney's

HR 5563 [109th]: MEAL Act To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to extend the food labeling requirements of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990 to enable customers to make informed choices about the nutritional ...

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March 13, 2008 The Give Act Falls Short by a Hair

Yesterday afternoon, HR 5563, legislation to reauthorize the national service programs was defeated by a recorded vote of 277 - 140. Because the GIVE Act was considered under suspension, the legislation needed two-thirds of those ...

Source: CCC
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March 13, 2008 CLYBURN: WHAT DO REPUBLICANS HAVE AGAINST VOLUNTEERISM?

Clyburn today released the following statement criticizing House Republicans for defeating the GIVE Act, HR 5563, legislation that promotes volunteerism and reauthorizes national service programs. “What demonstrates true American values ...

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