I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1151 
To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to establish 
Encore Service Programs, Encore Fellowship Programs, and Silver Schol-
arship Programs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 24, 2009 
Ms. DELAURO (for herself, Mr. SERRANO, Mr. GRIJALVA, Ms. NORTON, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Mr. MARKEY of Massachusetts, and Mr. FATTAH) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Edu-
cation and Labor 
A BILL 
To amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 
to establish Encore Service Programs, Encore Fellowship 
Programs, and Silver Scholarship Programs, 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 ‘‘Encore Service Act 
of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Programs funded under the National and 
Community Service Act of 1990 have the potential 
to dramatically increase the number of individuals 
age 50 or older engaged in national service, applying 
decades of experience to solving community prob-
lems. 
(2) The potential pool of older individuals who 
could provide national service is enormous and rap-
idly growing. The population of people age 50 or 
older, which today is more than 94,000,000 individ-
uals, is expected to grow by over 22 percent in the 
next 10 years, to almost 115,000,000 individuals. 
(3) Studies show that over half of the 
78,000,000 individuals considered part of the Baby 
Boomer generation, those turning 50 between 1996 
and 2014, are interested in providing meaningful 
service to their communities. 
(4) Research further shows that older individ-
uals are not adequately connected to national service 
or work opportunities in the public sector. 
(5) For some individuals age 50 or older, par-
ticipation in national service can serve as an impor-
tant pathway and transition experience, leading 
them into second careers in the public or nonprofit 
sector. 
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(6) Today’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Pro-
gram (RSVP) helps baby boomers anxious to make 
use of their education, skills, and expertise to pro-
tect seniors against fraud, work on a national falls 
prevention campaign, and volunteer to green the 
economy. Research shows that individuals enrolled in 
the program volunteer more hours of service per 
year than those not in the program. 
(7) The National Senior Volunteer Corps pro-
grams, which are national service programs that cur-
rently engage older individuals, have deployed mil-
lions of individuals in the United States in service to 
their communities but are currently at capacity and 
in need of resources to grow. 
SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, wherever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the reference shall be considered to be made to a 
section or other provision of the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12501 et seq.). 
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TITLE I—ENCORE SERVICE 
PROGRAM 
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 101 (42 U.S.C. 12511) is amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(30) ENCORE SERVICE PROGRAM.—The term 
‘Encore Service Program’ means a national service 
program authorized under section 122(a)(15). 
‘‘(31) ENCORE
SERVICE
PARTICIPANT.—The 
term ‘Encore Service Participant’ means an indi-
vidual age 50 or older who is a participant in an ap-
proved Encore Service Program.’’. 
SEC. 102. ELIGIBILITY. 
Section 122(a) (42 U.S.C. 12572(a)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (15) as para-
graph (16); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (14) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(15) A service program that engages only indi-
viduals age 50 or older, or individuals age 50 or 
older and other individuals in intergenerational serv-
ice activities, serving in service positions to address 
a specific community need.’’. 
SEC. 103. PRIORITY. 
Section 122 (42 U.S.C. 12572) is amended— 
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