English (PA)  

#4

Would add a section at end of bill that it is the Sense of Congress that the Corporation for National and Community Service should make the maximum effort possible to coordinate the recruiting and assignment procedures of their various programs to allow senior citizens and their grandchildren to share volunteer opportunities and/or be assigned to the same geographic areas during their period of service.

English (PA)

#5

Would add a section to bill that it is the Sense of Congress that the Corporation for National and Community Service should make the maximum effort possible to coordinate with the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide opportunities for young people enrolled in NACS programs to collect oral histories from senior citizens in the communities where they serve.

English (PA)  

#6

(REVISED) Would require the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service to coordinate with the Disabled American Veterans organization to provide opportunities for young people enrolled in existing NACS programs to serve as drivers in the DAV Transportation Network on a full-time, part-time, or as-needed basis.

Flake (AZ)

#7

Amendment would strike the "summer of service" grant program and reduce the authorized amount designated for the program.

Flake (AZ)

#13

(WITHDRAWN)  Would prohibit any entity from receiving funds under any program within the national service laws if that entity also receives an earmark.

Insle(WA) /Sarbanes(MD)

#14

Would add an Energy Conservation Corps, which would seek to address the nation’s energy and transportation infrastructure needs while providing work and service opportunities. 

Jackson-Lee (TX)

#2

(WITHDRAWN) Would expand scope to include community colleges serving predominantly minority student populations.

Jefferson (LA)

#3

(WITHDRAWN) Amendment would give priority to areas which the President has declared to be major disaster areas.

Matsui (CA)/Shays (CT)

#11

Would integrate two competitive funding streams and seek to improve collaboration between state and national entities.

McCarthy (NY)

#10

Manager's Amendment.  (2nd REVISION)  Would make various technical changes and clarifications to H.R. 2857, the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education (GIVE) Act.  The amendment includes the following key changes: Makes various technical changes to Learn and Serve America (Subtitle B); Clarifies matching requirements of AmeriCorps State/National (Subtitle C); Strengthens Senior Corps by phasing in competition for the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) by 2013 and creating incentive grants to encourage high performance among the Senior Corps programs with a priority for RSVP programs; and Provides New Service Initiatives including a new national service pilot program to support individuals seeking to do service for small, eligible entities and a Silver Scholarship program for individuals 55 years of age and older who perform 600 hours of service.

McDermott (WA)/Shays(CT)/Farr(CA) 

#1

Would establish a temporary Congressional Commission on Civic Service within the Legislative Branch.  The Commission would be tasked with making recommendations to Congress about how to improve opportunities for public service.

McKeon (CA)  

#12

Would require the Corporation to establish priorities for programs funded under the national service laws for programs that recruit veterans into service opportunities, promote community-based efforts to meet the needs of military families while a family member is deployed, and promote community-based efforts to meet the needs of military families when a member of the family returns from a deployment.  The amendment also would require the Corporation to annually report to Congress on the number and percentage of national service positions eligible for the education award that are filled by veterans, and to establish annual goals for increasing those numbers and percentages.

Sutton (OH)

#8

Would require the Corporation for National and Community Service to consider whether an area has a mortgage foreclosure rate greater than the national average when considering applications from States and other eligible entities.

Sutton (OH)

#9

Would require the Corporation for National and Community Service to conduct a study to identify specific areas of need for displaced workers and how existing programs and activities carried out under the national service laws can better serve displaced workers and communities affected by plant closings and job losses.  The amendment would also require the Corporation to develop and carry out a pilot program based on the findings of the study.

Weiner (NY)

#15

Would provide a $260,000,000 grant to establish GothamCorps, which would provide cities more discretion over the selection and placement of volunteers. In addition, volunteers would receive one year tuition at a state or city university on top of the benefits allocated through AmeriCorps. The first $150,000,000 is provided for 6 grants for cities with populations over 100,000 people and the remaining amount is available to cities with less then 100,000 people.