“To prohibit the use of funds to eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service.”
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This section states congressional findings that (1) every $1 in federal investment in AmeriCorps and Senior Corps returns $17.30 to society; (2) over 900,000 Americans have served more than 1.2 billion hours in AmeriCorps over 30 years, valued at over $38 billion across all states and territories; and (3) the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), its authorizing statute, and related reforms have received strong bipartisan support over decades. It expresses the sense of Congress that any CNCS reform or reorganization must (1) comply with existing laws, maintain U.S. support for national service, ensure the National Service Trust meets all obligations to AmeriCorps participants, and preserve the federal role in addressing human, educational, environmental, and public safety needs through civic engagement; and (2) occur only via act of Congress, as required to eliminate CNCS as a government corporation under 5 U.S.C. §103.
This section prohibits the use of any federal funds appropriated by the American Relief Act, 2025 (P.L. 118-158) or any other appropriations act from eliminating the Corporation for National and Community Service's (CNCS) status as a government corporation, as defined in 5 U.S.C. §103. (CNCS administers national service programs such as AmeriCorps, which engage volunteers in community service in exchange for education awards and stipends.) The section further provides that nothing therein permits the elimination, dismantlement, or subsumption of CNCS under existing law and requires the CNCS chief executive officer to certify compliance to the House Committee on Education and Workforce and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions within 30 days of enactment and annually thereafter for five years.