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(2) NONDISCRIMINATION
REQUIREMENT.—The 
VfP Office may not provide a stipend to an indi-
vidual under paragraph (1) unless the nonprofit or-
ganization to which the individual is assigned has 
certified to the VfP Office that it does not discrimi-
nate with respect to any project or activity receiving 
Federal financial assistance, including a stipend 
under this title, because of race, religion, color, na-
tional origin, sex, political affiliation, or beliefs. 
(3) COMPLIANCE WITH INELIGIBLE SERVICE CAT-
EGORIES.—Service carried out by a volunteer receiv-
ing funds under this section may not provide a direct 
benefit to any— 
(A) business organized for profit; 
(B) labor union; 
(C) partisan political organization; or 
(D) religious or faith-based organization for 
the purpose of proselytization, worship or any 
other explicitly religious activity. 
(d) FUNDING.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Administrator of the 
United States Agency for International Development 
shall make available the amounts appropriated pur-
suant to section 5104 to the VfP Office to pursue the
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objectives described in subsection (b) by carrying out 
the functions described in subsection (a). 
(2) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts made available 
under paragraph (1) may be used by the VfP Office 
to provide personnel and other resources to develop, 
manage, and expand the VfP Program, under the su-
pervision of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development. 
(e) COORDINATION.—The VfP Office shall coordinate 
its efforts with other public and private efforts that aim 
to send skilled professionals to serve in developing nations. 
(f) REPORT.—The VfP Office shall submit an annual 
report to Congress on the activities of the VfP Office. 
SEC. 5104. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out this title $10,000,000 for fiscal year 
2010, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the 
fiscal years 2011 through 2014. 
(b) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Not more than 10 per-
cent of the amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection 
(a) may be expended for the administrative costs of the 
United States Agency for International Development to 
manage the VfP Program.
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TITLE VI—EFFECTIVE DATE 
SEC. 6101. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—This Act, and the amendments 
made by this Act, take effect on October 1, 2009. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—Effective on the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation 
for National and Community Service may issue such regu-
lations as may be necessary to carry out this Act and the 
amendments made by this Act. 
SEC. 6102. SENSE OF THE SENATE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds the following: 
(1) President John F. Kennedy said, ‘‘The rais-
ing of extraordinarily large sums of money, given vol-
untarily and freely by millions of our fellow Ameri-
cans, is a unique American tradition . . . Philan-
thropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely . . . call 
it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an Amer-
ican tradition’’. 
(2) Americans gave more than $300,000,000,000 
to charitable causes in 2007, an amount equal to 
roughly 2 percent of the gross domestic product. 
(3) The vast majority of those donations, roughly 
75 percent or $229,000,000,000, came from individ-
uals.
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(4) Studies have shown that Americans give far 
more to charity than the people of any other industri-
alized nation—more than twice as much, measured as 
a share of gross domestic product, than the citizens of 
Great Britain, and 10 times more than the citizens 
of France. 
(5) 7 out of 10 American households donate to 
charities to support a wide range of religious, edu-
cational, cultural, health care, and environmental 
goals. 
(6) These charities provide innumerable valuable 
public services to society’s most vulnerable citizens 
during difficult economic times. 
(7) Congress has provided incentives through the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to encourage chari-
table giving by allowing individuals to deduct con-
tributions made to tax-exempt charities. 
(8) 41,000,000 American households, constituting 
86 percent of taxpayers who itemize deductions, took 
advantage of this deduction to give to the charities of 
their choice. 
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that Congress should preserve the income tax deduction 
for charitable contributions through the Internal Revenue
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Code of 1986 and look for additional ways to encourage 
charitable giving. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘Entitled The Ed-
ward M. Kennedy Serve America Act, an Act to reau-
thorize and reform the national service laws’’. 
Attest: 
Secretary.