Title: Promoting National Service and Reducing Unemployment Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Promoting National Service and Reducing Unemployment Act
This bill provides supplemental appropriations to (1) increase the number of national service positions approved under the AmeriCorps program, and (2) increase the living allowance for participants in the program.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9014 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9014

 To provide for supplemental appropriations to increase the number of 
   Americorps members and to increase the living allowances of such 
                    members, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 28, 2022

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
   Committee on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on 
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 committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for supplemental appropriations to increase the number of 
   Americorps members and to increase the living allowances of such 
                    members, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Promoting National Service and 
Reducing Unemployment Act''.

SEC. 2. SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS.

    In addition to any amounts otherwise appropriated or made 
available, there is appropriated such sums as may be necessary, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2023--
            (1) to increase by not less than 500,000 the number of 
        national service positions approved under subtitle C of title I 
        of the National and Community Service Act of 1990; and
            (2) to enable an increase in the living allowance of each 
        participant of a national service program to 200 percent of the 
        poverty line, as specified under section 140(a)(1) of the 
        National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42U. S.C. 
        12594(a)(1)), as amended by section 3.

SEC. 3. PERMANENT INCREASE IN LIVING ALLOWANCE.

    Section 140(a)(1) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 12594(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(1) Living allowance required.--Subject to paragraphs (2) 
        and (3), a national service program (including a national 
        service program carried out using assistance provided under 
        section 121) shall provide to each participant of such program 
        a living allowance in an amount equal to 200 percent of the 
        poverty line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
        Budget, and revised annually in accordance with section 673(2) 
        of the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) 
        applicable to a family of the size involved), and adjusted each 
        year after 2023 for inflation as measured by the Consumer Price 
        Index for All Urban Consumers published by the Secretary of 
        Labor.''.

SEC. 4. PERMANENT INCREASE IN COST PER MEMBER SERVICE YEAR.

    Section 189(a) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 
(42 U.S.C. 12645c(a)) is amended by striking ``$18,000 per full-time 
equivalent position'' and inserting ``125 percent of the amount of the 
minimum living allowance of a full-time participant per full-time 
equivalent position''.
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