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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1066 
To amend the Peace Corps Act to provide continued funding for the Peace 
Corps, to increase the readjustment allowances for Peace Corps volun-
teers and volunteer leaders, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 13, 2009 
Mr. FARR (for himself, Mr. DRIEHAUS, Mr. HONDA, Mr. PETRI, Ms. MCCOL-
LUM, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. OLVER, Mr. WELCH, Mr. WAXMAN, 
Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mrs. CAPPS, Mr. 
TIERNEY, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. VIS-
CLOSKY, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. ETHERIDGE, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, 
Mr. CALVERT, Mr. TAYLOR, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. 
BERRY, Mr. FATTAH, Mr. PIERLUISI, Ms. DELAURO, Mrs. HALVORSON, 
Mr. MEEKS of New York, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, Mr. 
PERLMUTTER, Ms. SOLIS of California, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. HIRONO, 
Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia, Mr. HARE, Mr. 
TEAGUE, and Mr. KAGEN) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend the Peace Corps Act to provide continued funding 
for the Peace Corps, to increase the readjustment allow-
ances for Peace Corps volunteers and volunteer leaders, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Peace Corps Expan-
sion Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) On October 14, 1960, then Senator John F. 
Kennedy addressed students on the steps of the Uni-
versity of Michigan Union to enlist their effort to 
make the world a better place by serving their coun-
try abroad. 
(2) On March 1, 1961, then President John F. 
Kennedy signed an Executive Order establishing a 
Peace Corps that was ‘‘designed to permit our peo-
ple to exercise more fully their responsibilities in the 
great common cause of world development’’. 
(3) Since President Kennedy established the 
Peace Corps, more than 190,000 volunteers have 
served in 139 countries. 
(4) The Peace Corps is focused on grassroots, 
bottom-up development, with volunteers working 
side-by-side with community members in the most 
humble communities around the world. 
(5) The Peace Corps has an impressive record 
of engendering good will through the service that 
American volunteers provide. 
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(6) President Obama and Vice President Biden 
have articulated their intent to double the size of 
Peace Corps in an expeditious and considered man-
ner. 
(7) 13,011 Americans applied in 2008 to volun-
teer their service to serve the world’s poorest com-
munities in the Peace Corps, a 16 percent increase 
over the 11,246 received in 2007. 
(8) At the budget level, the Peace Corps is able 
to provide placements for fewer than 4,000 Ameri-
cans seeking the opportunity to serve their country 
and the world. 
(9) Several countries have requested Peace 
Corps volunteers to work together with their people 
to advance economic development and human flour-
ishing, but have not yet received volunteers. 
SEC. 3. FUNDING FOR THE PEACE CORPS. 
Section 3 of the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2502) 
is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$270,000,000’’ and all 
that follows through the end period and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘$450,000,000 for fiscal year 
2010, $600,000,000 for fiscal year 2011, and 
$750,000,000 for fiscal year 2012.’’; and 
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(B) by redesignating subsection (h) as sub-
section (e). 
SEC. 4. READJUSTMENT ALLOWANCES FOR PEACE CORPS 
VOLUNTEERS AND VOLUNTEER LEADERS. 
(a) VOLUNTEERS.—Section 5(c) of the Peace Corps 
Act (22 U.S.C. 2504(c)) is amended in the first sentence 
by striking ‘‘$125’’ and inserting ‘‘$250’’. 
(b) VOLUNTEER LEADERS.—Section 6(1) of the 
Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2505(1)) is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘$125’’ and inserting ‘‘$250’’. 
Æ 
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