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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 8595 

To provide for supplemental appropriations to increase the number of 

Americorps members and to increase the living allowances of such members, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 3, 2024 

Ms. NORTON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on Education 

and the Workforce, 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 

A BILL 

To provide for supplemental appropriations to increase the 

number of Americorps members and to increase the living allowances of such members, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Promoting National 

5 Service and Reducing Unemployment Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS. 

7 In addition to any amounts otherwise appropriated 

8 or made available, there is appropriated such sums as may 


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1 be necessary, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 

2 2025— 

3 (1) to increase by not less than 500,000 the 

4 number of national service positions approved under 

5 subtitle C of title I of the National and Community 

6 Service Act of 1990; and 

7 (2) to enable an increase in the living allowance 

8 of each participant of a national service program to 

9 200 percent of the poverty line, as specified under 

10 section 140(a)(1) of the National and Community 

11 Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12594(a)(1)), as 

12 amended by section 3. 

13 SEC. 3. PERMANENT INCREASE IN LIVING ALLOWANCE. 

14 Section 140(a)(1) of the National and Community 

15 Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12594(a)(1)) is amended 

16 to read as follows: 

17 ‘‘(1) LIVING ALLOWANCE REQUIRED.—Subject 

18 to paragraphs (2) and (3), a national service pro19 gram (including a national service program carried 

20 out using assistance provided under section 121) 

21 shall provide to each participant of such program a 

22 living allowance in an amount equal to 200 percent 

23 of the poverty line (as defined by the Office of Man24 agement and Budget, and revised annually in ac25 cordance with section 673(2) of the Community 


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1 Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) ap2 plicable to a family of the size involved), and ad3 justed each year after 2025 for inflation as meas4 ured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban 

5 Consumers published by the Secretary of Labor.’’. 

6 SEC. 4. PERMANENT INCREASE IN COST PER MEMBER 

7 SERVICE YEAR. 

8 Section 189(a) of the National and Community Serv9 ice Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12645c(a)) is amended by 

10 striking ‘‘$18,000 per full-time equivalent position’’ and 

11 inserting ‘‘125 percent of the amount of the minimum liv12 ing allowance of a full-time participant per full-time equiv13 alent position’’. 

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