I 
117TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6958 
To expand the financial, healthcare, and educational benefits received by 
Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteers, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 7, 2022 
Mr. KIM of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees 
on Foreign Affairs, Veterans’ Affairs, and Education and Labor, 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 com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To expand the financial, healthcare, and educational benefits 
received by Peace Corps and AmeriCorps volunteers, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘A Chance To Serve 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. EXPANDED BENEFITS FOR CURRENT AND FORMER 
PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS. 
(a) EXTENDED NON-COMPETITIVE ELIGIBILITY.— 
The President shall revise Executive Order 11103 (28 
Fed. Reg. 3571; relating to providing for the appointment 
of former Peace Corps volunteers to the civilian career 
services) to extend to three years the period during which 
any appointment under the authority of such Executive 
Order may be made. 
(b) EXTENDED HEALTHCARE.— 
(1) 1-YEAR
ELIGIBILITY
FOR
HEALTH
BENE-
FITS.—Subchapter VIII of title 38, United States 
Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
new section: 
‘‘§ 1789A. Former Peace Corps volunteers 
‘‘During the one-year period beginning on the day 
after the final day of the service of a Peace Corps volun-
teer, the Secretary shall provide such former volunteer 
such hospital care or medical services as the former volun-
teer may elect to receive at a medical facility of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs. The cost of any care or serv-
ices furnished under this section to such former volunteer 
shall be reimbursed at such rates as may be agreed upon 
by the Secretary and the Director of the Peace Corps, 
based on the cost of the care or service furnished and in 
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accordance with health care otherwise provided to volun-
teers under section 5(e) of the Peace Corps Act.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 5(e) 
of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(e)) is 
amended— 
(A) by inserting after the first sentence the 
following new sentence: ‘‘Former volunteers 
shall also be entitled to such hospital care and 
medical services as may be provided in accord-
ance with section 1789A of title 38, United 
States Code.’’; and 
(B) in the second sentence, by inserting 
‘‘(other than health care provided in accordance 
with such section 1789A)’’ after ‘‘such health 
care’’. 
(3) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sec-
tions for chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by adding after the item relating to sec-
tion 1789 the following new item: 
‘‘1789A. Former Peace Corps volunteers.’’. 
(c) NONTAXABLE STATUS FOR READJUSTMENT AL-
LOWANCES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, a readjustment allowance 
received pursuant to section 5(c) of the Peace Corps Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2504(c)) shall not be subject to taxation under 
chapter 1 of such Code. 
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