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105TH CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 993

To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to repeal the

National Service Trust Program under which certain persons who perform national or community service receive stipends and educational

awards for such service.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MARCH 6, 1997

Mr. TIAHRT (for himself, Mr. FOLEY, Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas, Mr.

ROHRABACHER, Mr. NORWOOD, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mrs. ROUKEMA, Mr. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. BARR of Georgia, Mr. WELDON of Florida, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. STUMP, Mr.

GOODLATTE, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. MCKEON, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. KINGSTON,

Mr. LARGENT, Mr. BUYER, Mr. JONES, Mrs. CHENOWETH, Mr.

NETHERCUTT, Mr. NEUMANN, Mr. WATTS of Oklahoma, Mr.

HAYWORTH, Mr. SNOWBARGER, Mr. ISTOOK, Mr. WICKER, Mr. COLLINS,

Mr. HILLEARY, Mr. EHRLICH, Mr. MCINTOSH, Mr. ROGAN, Mr.

RADANOVICH, Mr. GILLMOR, Mr. ENSIGN, Mr. SCARBOROUGH, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. COBURN, Mr. EWING, Mr. LEWIS of Kentucky, Mr. BURTON

of Indiana, Mr. SOLOMON, Mr. MILLER of Florida, Mr. HOSTETTLER,

Mr. SENSENBRENNER, and Mr. DAN SCHAEFER of Colorado) introduced

the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and

the Workforce

A BILL

To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990

to repeal the National Service Trust Program under

which certain persons who perform national or community service receive stipends and educational awards for

such service.
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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 ‘‘Americorps Program

5 Elimination Act’’.

6 SEC. 2. REPEAL OF NATIONAL SERVICE TRUST PROGRAM

7 OF STIPENDS AND EDUCATIONAL AWARDS

8 FOR SERVICE.

9 (a) REPEAL.—Subtitle C of title I of the National

10 and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12571

11 through 12595) is repealed.

12 (b) EFFECT OF REPEAL ON PARTICIPANTS.—

13 (1) CONTINUATION OF CURRENT SERVICE AND

14 BENEFITS.—Notwithstanding the repeal of subtitle

15 C of title I of the National and Community Service

16 Act of 1990 by subsection (a), such subtitle shall

17 continue to apply with respect to an individual who,

18 on the date of the enactment of this section, is a

19 participant in an approved national service position

20 under such subtitle, until such time as the individual

21 completes the required term of service, is released

22 from completing the term of service, or otherwise

23 leaves the service position.

24 (2) NATIONAL SERVICE EDUCATIONAL

25 AWARDS.—The amendment made by subsection (a)
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1 shall not affect the provision of national service edu2 cational awards under subtitle D of title I of the Na3 tional and Community Service Act of 1990 (42

4 U.S.C. 12601 et seq) to current and former national

5 service participants pursuant to the terms of such

6 subtitle.

7 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) The National

8 and Community Service Act of 1990 is amended—

9 (A) in section 199A (42 U.S.C. 12655), by in10 serting ‘‘, as in effect before the repeal of such sub11 title,’’ after ‘‘subtitle C’’; and

12 (B) in section 501(a)(2) (42 U.S.C.

13 12681(a)(2))—

14 (i) in the paragraph heading, by striking

15 ‘‘C, D,’’ and inserting ‘‘D’’;

16 (ii) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sub17 titles C and’’ and inserting ‘‘subtitle H’’; and

18 (iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking

19 ‘‘under section 125, under subsections (b) and

20 (c) of section 126, and’’.

21 (2) Section 106 of the National and Community Serv22 ice Trust Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 12656) is amended—

23 (A) in subsection (i), by striking paragraph (3);

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1 (B) by adding at the end the following new sub2 section:

3 ‘‘(j) CROSS REFERENCES.—References in this section

4 to provisions of subtitle C of title I of the National and

5 Community Service Act of 1990, which has been repealed,

6 shall be construed to refer to such provisions as in effect

7 on the day before the date of the repeal.’’.

8 (3) The Public Lands Corps Act of 1993 is amend9 ed—

10 (A) in section 207(a) (16 U.S.C. 1726(a)), by

11 inserting before the period at the end the following:

12 ‘‘, as such section was in effect before the repeal of

13 such subtitle’’; and

14 (B) in section 210 (16 U.S.C. 1729), by strik15 ing subsection (b).

16 (4) Section 6703(a) of title 31, United States Code,

17 is amended by striking paragraph (5).

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