I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3130 
To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to promote 
active citizenship, including volunteerism, community dialogue, and serv-
ice, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 29, 2017 
Mr. HUFFMAN (for himself and Mr. DESAULNIER) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Work-
force, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Energy 
and Commerce, Foreign Affairs, and Veterans’ Affairs, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 
to promote active citizenship, including volunteerism, 
community dialogue, and service, 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 ‘‘International & Na-
tional Service Promotion to Ignite Renewed Engagement 
Act’’ or the ‘‘INSPIRE Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. PURPOSES AND FINDINGS. 
(a) PURPOSES.—The purpose of this Act is to— 
(1) promote active citizenship, including vol-
unteerism, community dialogue, and service; 
(2) encourage and expand peaceful, positive, 
and respectful patriotic acts both nationally and 
internationally; and 
(3) increase educational benefits for those that 
serve so that more people will not only have the fi-
nancial ability to perform extensive community serv-
ice, but to increase the overall number of national 
and international volunteers to 260,000, and provide 
an additional 240,000 teachers and health profes-
sionals to underserved areas. 
(b) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) On April 21, 2009, the President signed the 
Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, to amend 
and reauthorize the National and Community Serv-
ice Act of 1990 and Domestic Volunteer Service Act 
of 1973. 
(2) The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America 
Act set bold benchmarks for expanding the number 
and scope of service in the United States. 
(3) The Edward M. Kennedy Serve America 
Act required the Corporation for National and Com-
munity Service to develop a plan to increase the 
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number of approved national service positions from 
88,000 in fiscal year 2010 to 250,000 in fiscal year 
2017. 
(4) The total national service positions in fiscal 
year 2016 were 85,928, 149,072 less than the 
235,000 authorized in the Edward M. Kennedy 
Serve America Act. 
(5) Congress should renew its commitment to 
national service and appropriate funds necessary to 
support the increased national service positions in 
the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. 
(6) The Peace Corps was founded in 1961 to 
promoting world peace and friendship by improving 
the lives of those they serve, helping others under-
stand American culture, and sharing their experi-
ence with Americans back home. 
(7) Nearly 225,000 Peace Corps volunteers 
have served in 141 countries over the lifetime of the 
program. 
(8) In 1985 Congress made it the policy of the 
United States to maintain consistent with pro-
grammatic and fiscal considerations, a Peace Corps 
volunteer level of at least 10,000 individuals. 
(9) 10,000 individuals has not been reached 
since 1968, although the objective has been reiter-
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ated by three Presidents. In 2016 the Peace Corps 
had about 7,213 volunteers serving in 65 nations. 
(10) Congress must now renew its commitment 
to world peace and appropriate funds necessary to 
support 10,000 Peace Corps positions. 
(11) Encouraging national and international 
service fosters community dialogue, inclusive rela-
tionships, and positive actions. 
(12) An individual’s ability to serve should not 
be compromised by economic circumstances. Con-
gress should expand educational benefits for service 
and public service loan programs to ensure all that 
wish to serve can do so. 
(13) Congress should unleash a force of a half 
million dedicated, patriotic individuals to teach in 
our schools, increase health outcomes in underserved 
areas, conserve our natural resources, and build up 
our communities. 
SEC. 3. CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY 
SERVICE. 
(a) RURAL COMMUNITIES.—Section 121 of the Na-
tional and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
12571) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
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(A) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and 
(2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; 
(B) by striking ‘‘Subject to’’ and inserting 
the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) PRIORITY.—Not less than 10 percent of 
the grant amounts awarded under subsection (a) for 
a fiscal year, shall be awarded to carry out or sup-
port the national service programs described in sub-
section (a) that carry out or support projects or ac-
tivities in rural communities with not more than 
20,000 individuals.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e)(4)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Corporation’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—The Corporation’’; 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) RURAL
COMMUNITIES.—The Cor-
poration shall waive the requirements of para-
graph (1) with respect to a national service pro-
gram in any fiscal year that carries out or sup-
ports projects or activities in rural communities 
with not more than 20,000 individuals.’’. 
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(b) COORDINATED TRIBAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL 
RECRUITMENT.—Section 122(a)(2) of the National and 
Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12572(a)(2)) 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B)— 
(A) by redesignating clauses (vii) through 
(ix) as clauses (viii) through (x), respectively; 
and 
(B) by inserting after clause (vi) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(vii) providing services designed to 
recruit and mentor young members of Na-
tive American and Alaska Native tribes 
prior to enrollment in postsecondary edu-
cation to work in health professions, in-
cluding nursing and mental health profes-
sions;’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (C)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end of clause 
(v); 
(B) by striking the period at the end of 
clause (vi) and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(vii) any additional local indicator re-
lating to the recruitment and mentoring of 
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health of Native American and Alaska Na-
tive tribal youth to work in health profes-
sions, that is approved by the Corporation, 
in consultation with the Director of the In-
dian Health Service.’’. 
(c) 
EDUCATIONAL
AWARDS
AND
ADDITIONAL 
FUNDS.—The National and Community Service Act of 
1990 (42 U.S.C. 12603) is amended— 
(1) in section 147(a) (42 U.S.C. 12603(a))— 
(A) by striking ‘‘Except as provided’’ and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘shall receive’’ and all that 
follows through the period at the end and in-
serting the following: ‘‘shall be entitled to re-
ceive a national service educational award equal 
to the amount described in paragraph (2).’’; 
and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) AWARD AMOUNT.—A national service edu-
cational award under paragraph (1) payable to an 
individual described in such paragraph shall be equal 
to the lesser of— 
‘‘(A) $21,970.46; or 
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‘‘(B) an amount equal to the in-State tui-
tion to complete a program at a public institu-
tion of higher education in the State in which 
the individual is enrolled or accepted to be en-
rolled. 
‘‘(3) 
MANDATORY
APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
shall be available to the Corporation, from funds in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such funds 
as may be necessary to carry out this subsection for 
fiscal year 2018 and each succeeding fiscal year.’’; 
and 
(2) in section 501 (42 U.S.C. 12681), by add-
ing at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS.— 
‘‘(1) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to 
be appropriated such additional sums as are nec-
essary for the administration of this Act and the Do-
mestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 
4950 et seq.), including the programs and activities, 
and functions of such Acts, and the goals described 
in paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of 
Congress that amounts appropriated under para-
graph (1) should be sufficient to provide or facilitate 
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volunteer service opportunities and programs for not 
fewer than 250,000 volunteers in full-time national 
service per year before the end of the 5-year period 
beginning on the date of enactment of the 21st Cen-
tury Community Service Expansion Act.’’. 
(d) NONCOMPETITIVE ELIGIBILITY.—Section 177 of 
the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (20 
U.S.C. 12637) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(g) NONCOMPETITIVE ELIGIBILITY.—Under such 
regulations as the Office of Personnel Management may 
prescribe, an individual who has completed a satisfactory 
full term of service of not less 1,700 hours under any pro-
gram under this Act shall be eligible for appointment in 
the Federal competitive service in the same manner as 
Peace Corps Volunteers as prescribed in Executive Order 
No. 11103.’’. 
(e) EXCLUSION FROM GROSS INCOME.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 117 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to qualified scholar-
ships) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(e) AMERICORPS EDUCATIONAL AWARDS.—Gross 
income shall not include any national service educational 
award described in subtitle D of title I of the National 
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and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12601 
et seq.).’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 
by this subsection shall apply to taxable years end-
ing after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. PEACE CORPS. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Title I 
of the Peace Corps Act is amended by adding at the end 
the following new section: 
‘‘AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
‘‘SEC. 29. (a) There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this Act— 
‘‘(1) $432,777,778 for fiscal year 2018; 
‘‘(2) $455,555,556 for fiscal year 2019; 
‘‘(3) $501,111,112 for fiscal year 2020; 
‘‘(4) $523,888,890 for fiscal year 2021; 
‘‘(5) $546,666,000 for fiscal year 2022; 
‘‘(6) $569,444,446 for fiscal year 2023; 
‘‘(7) $592,222,224 for fiscal year 2024; and 
‘‘(8) such sums as may be necessary each subsequent 
fiscal year. 
‘‘(b) Amounts authorized to be appropriated pursu-
ant to this section for a fiscal year are authorized to re-
main available for obligation through the end of the subse-
quent fiscal year.’’. 
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(b) EDUCATION BENEFIT AND TAX EXEMPTION.— 
Section 5 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2504) is 
amended— 
(1) by inserting after subsection (c), the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(d) EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS.— 
‘‘(1) EDUCATIONAL AWARD.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Upon completion of a 
satisfactory full term of service as a volunteer 
under this Act, as determined under Executive 
Order No. 11103, an individual shall receive an 
educational award in an amount equal to the 
lesser of— 
‘‘(i) $21,970.46; or 
‘‘(ii) an amount equal to the in-State 
tuition to complete a program at a public 
institution of higher education in the State 
in which the individual is enrolled or ac-
cepted to be enrolled. 
‘‘(B) USE
OF
AWARD.—An educational 
award received under this subsection shall be 
used to repay Federal student loans or to pay 
for the cost of attendance at an institution of 
higher education. 
‘‘(C) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
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‘‘(2) PAYMENT OF INTEREST.—The President 
shall provide, on behalf of an individual, for the pay-
ment of interest that accrues during a period for 
which such individual has obtained forbearance in 
the repayment of a Federal student loan, if the indi-
vidual has completed a satisfactory full term of serv-
ice as a volunteer under this Act, as determined 
under Executive Order No. 11103. 
‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this section— 
‘‘(A) The term ‘institution of higher edu-
cation’ has the meaning given the term in (sec-
tion 102 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1002)). 
‘‘(B) The ‘Federal student loan’ has the 
meaning given the term ‘qualified student loan’ 
under section 148(b)(7) of the National and 
Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 
12604(b)(7)).’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(o) Under such regulations as the Office of Per-
sonnel Management may prescribe, an individual who has 
completed a satisfactory full term of service as a Peace 
Corps volunteer, as determined under Executive Order No. 
11103, shall be eligible for appointment in the Federal 
competitive service as described under such order.’’. 
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(c) INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 117 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by the preceding 
provisions of this Act, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(f) PEACE CORPS LOAN REPAYMENTS.—Gross in-
come shall not include any loan repayment described in 
section 5(d) of the Peace Corps Act.’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 
by this subsection shall apply to taxable years end-
ing after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 5. PUBLIC SERVICE PROGRAMS. 
(a) STAFFORD LOAN FORGIVENESS.—Title IV of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.) 
is amended— 
(1) in section 428J(c) (20 U.S.C. 1078– 
10(c))— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘$5,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$21,970.46’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraph (3); and 
(2) in section 460(c) (20 U.S.C. 1087j(c))— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘$5,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘$21,970.46’’; and 
(B) by striking paragraph (3). 
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(b) NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE CORPS LOAN RE-
PAYMENT PROGRAM.— 
(1) PERIOD OF OBLIGATED SERVICE.—Section 
338B(f)(1)(B)(iv) of the Public Health Service Act 
(42 U.S.C. 254l–1(f)(1)(B)(iv)) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘2 years’’ and inserting ‘‘5 years’’. 
(2) PAYMENTS FOR EACH YEAR OF OBLIGATED 
SERVICE.—Section 338B(g)(2)(A) of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254l–1(g)(2)(A)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘up to $50,000, plus, beginning 
with fiscal year 2012, an amount determined by the 
Secretary on an annual basis to reflect inflation’’ 
and inserting ‘‘up to $100,000, plus, beginning with 
fiscal year 2020, an amount determined by the Sec-
retary on an annual basis to reflect inflation’’. 
(c) NURSING EDUCATION LOAN REPAYMENT PRO-
GRAM.— 
(1) PERIOD OF OBLIGATED SERVICE.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Section 846(a)(3) of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
297n(a)(3)) is amended by striking ‘‘not less 
than two years’’ and inserting ‘‘not less than 
four years’’. 
(B) 
TECHNICAL
CORRECTION.—Section 
846(a)(2) of the Public Health Service Act (42 
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U.S.C. 297n(a)(2)) is amended by striking 
‘‘subpart II’’ and inserting ‘‘this part’’. 
(2) PAYMENTS OF ALL PRINCIPAL AND INTER-
EST.—Section 846(b) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 297n(b)) is amended— 
(A) in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), by 
striking ‘‘30 percent’’ each place it appears and 
inserting ‘‘25 percent’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) Upon completion by that individual of a 
fourth year of such service, the Secretary shall pay 
another 25 percent of the principal of, and the inter-
est on each such loan.’’. 
(3) TAX EXCLUSION FOR NURSING EDUCATION 
LOAN REPAYMENTS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Part III of subchapter 
B of chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 is amended by inserting after section 
139F the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 139G. NURSING EDUCATION LOAN REPAYMENTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Gross income shall not include 
the value of any loan repayment (of principal or interest) 
made by the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
under section 846 of the Public Health Service Act. 
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‘‘(b) DENIAL
OF
DOUBLE
BENEFIT.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of this subtitle, no deduction 
or credit shall be allowed for, or by reason of, any expendi-
ture to the extent of the amount excluded under sub-
section (a) for any subsidy, rebate or other amount which 
was provided with respect to such expenditure. The ad-
justed basis of any property shall be reduced by the 
amount excluded under subsection (a) which was provided 
with respect to such property.’’. 
(B) CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
1016(a) of such Code is amended by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph (36), by striking 
the period at the end of paragraph (37) and in-
serting ‘‘, and’’, and by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(38) to the extent provided in section 
139G(b).’’. 
(C) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of 
sections for part III of subchapter B of chapter 
1 of such Code is amended by inserting after 
the item relating to section 139F the following 
new item: 
‘‘Sec. 139G. Nursing education loan repayments.’’. 
(D) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments 
made by this paragraph shall apply to payments 
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made after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, in taxable years ending after such date. 
(d) PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE LOAN REPAY-
MENT PROGRAM.—Section 776(g) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 295f–1(g)) is amended to read as 
follows: 
‘‘(g) APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry out this section, 
there are authorized to be appropriated, and are appro-
priated, out of any monies in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, $195,000,000 for fiscal year 2018 and 
$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2019 through 
2022.’’. 
SEC. 6. INCREASE OF CERTAIN EDUCATION DEBT REPAY-
MENTS BY DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS. 
(a) EDUCATION DEBT REDUCTION PROGRAM.—Sec-
tion 7683(d)(1) of title 38, United States Code, is amend-
ed— 
(1) by striking ‘‘$120,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$250,000’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘$24,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$50,000’’. 
(b) EXCLUSION FROM GROSS INCOME.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 117 of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by the preceding 
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provisions of this Act, is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(g) VA EDUCATION DEBT REDUCTION PROGRAM.— 
Gross income shall not include any loan repayments under 
subchapter VII of chapter 76 of title 38, United States 
Code.’’. 
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made 
by paragraph (1) shall apply to payments made after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, in taxable 
years ending after such date. 
SEC. 7. EXEMPTION OF HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SHORTAGE 
AREAS FROM MEDICARE GRADUATE MED-
ICAL EDUCATION CAPS. 
(a) DIRECT GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION.—Sec-
tion 1886(h)(4)(F) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(h)(4)(F)) is amended— 
(1) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘clause (iii) and’’ 
after ‘‘subject to’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
‘‘(iii) 
INCREASE
ALLOWED
FOR 
HEALTH
PROFESSIONAL
SHORTAGE 
AREAS.—For cost reporting periods begin-
ning on or after January 1, 2018, clause 
(i) shall not apply in the case of a hospital 
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or nonprovider setting located in a health 
professional shortage area (as defined in 
section 332 of the Public Health Service 
Act).’’. 
(b) 
INDIRECT
MEDICAL
EDUCATION.—Section 
1886(d)(5)(B) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395ww(d)(5)(B)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating the second clause (x), as 
added by section 5505(b) of the Patient Protection 
and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111–148), as 
clause (xi) and moving such clause 4 ems to the left, 
and realigning the left margins of subclauses (II) 
and (III) of such clause and items (aa), (bb), (cc), 
and (dd) of subclause (II) of such clause appro-
priately; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new 
clause: 
‘‘(xii) For discharges occurring on or 
after January 1, 2018, in determining the 
hospital’s number of full-time equivalent 
residents for purposes of this subpara-
graph, clause (iii) of subsection (h)(4)(F) 
shall apply to clause (v) in the same man-
ner and for the same period as such clause 
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(iii) applies to clause (i) of such sub-
section.’’. 
Æ 
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