Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-5563
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2008-03-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Alaska
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Black colleges
Child health
Civics education
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Community development
Compensatory education
Computer literacy
Conferences
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation directors
Corporation for National and Community Service
Cost effectiveness
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Curricula
Depressed areas
Disaster relief
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Engineering
Environmental Protection
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Ex-offenders
Executive reorganization
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Federal-territorial relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial planning
Financial services
Foster home care
Foundations
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government service contracts
Graduate education
Grandparents
Grievance procedures
Health
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
History
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Inspectors general
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Leadership
Learning
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Mental illness
Mentoring
Military base closures
Minorities
Minority education
National service
Native Americans
Nonprofit organizations
Northern Mariana Islands
Older workers
Parent and child
Parents
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Policy sciences
Public health
Recidivists
Rehabilitation of criminals
Rural economic development
Rural health
Salaries
Scholarships
School-age child care
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Service learning
Social Welfare
Student employment
Student loan funds
Summer employment
Technical education
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation engineering
Travel costs
Urban affairs
Urban economic development
Veterans' benefits
Volunteer workers
Wages
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: 
Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, or the GIVE Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (NSCA) and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (DVSA) to revise the programs under such Acts and reauthorize appropriations for such programs through FY2012.
 
 Revises under NSCA: (1) the School-Based and Community-Based Service-Learning programs and Higher Education Innovative Programs for Community Service (Learn and Serve programs); (2) National Service Trust programs (AmeriCorps); (3) the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC); and (4) the Investment for Quality and Innovation program.
 
Eliminates the current Community-Based Learn and Serve programs.
 
Establishes a new Learn and Serve program, Innovative Service-Learning Programs and Research, providing matching grants to: (1) provide community service-learning opportunities to elementary and secondary, college, and graduate students, including summer of service programs; and (2) research and evaluate service-learning.
 
Includes among eligible AmeriCorps programs: (1) an E-corp program increasing community access to technology; (2) a program engaging citizens in public safety, health, and emergency preparedness services; (3) a youth mentoring program; (4) a program to reduce recidivism by re-engaging court-involved youth; and (5) the Education Awards Only program.
 
Establishes an AmeriCorp pilot grant program for state-approved, member-selected, national service positions.
 
Increases National Service educational awards for AmeriCorps, NCCC, and Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) participants.
 
Includes among needs to be met under the NCCC program, disaster relief, infrastructure improvement, environmental and energy conservation, and urban and rural development.
 
Requires states to develop comprehensive plans for volunteer and paid service by Baby Boomers and older adults.
 
Establishes an Office of Outreach and Recruitment in the Corporation for National and Community Service (Corporation).
 
 Requires the Corporation to plan pilot service programs to better utilize and serve veterans and displaced workers.
 
Authorizes the Corporation to provide grants to innovative and model service programs that include service programs for disadvantaged youth.
 
Eliminates federal funding for the Points of Light Foundation.
 
Establishes a new Energy Conservation Corps program awarding: (1) matching grants to states for projects providing youth and young adults with career training in support of energy conservation, infrastructure and transportation improvement, and emergency operations; (2) competitive grants for school-based green Learn and Serve programs; and (3) competitive grants to National Senior Service Corps (Senior Corps) programs involving seniors in energy efficient housing, infrastructure rehabilitation, and environmental and energy conservation education projects.
 
Revises under DVSA: (1) the VISTA program; and (2) the Senior Corps, including the Retired and Senior Volunteer program (RSVP), the Foster Grandparent program, and the Senior Companion program.
 
Gives priority in VISTA participant selection to disadvantaged youth and retired adults of any profession.
 
Authorizes new VISTA grant programs of national significance that provide poor and rural communities with: (1) services reintegrating formerly incarcerated individuals into society; (2) financial literacy and planning; (3) before-school and after-school services; (4) community economic development initiatives; (5) assistance to veterans and their families; and (6) health and wellness services. Eliminates the VISTA Literacy Corps, University Year for VISTA, and Literacy Challenge Grant programs.
 
Raises the minimum and maximum stipend provided to VISTA participants. 
 
Prioritizes RSVP projects in specified areas. 
 
Makes anyone 55 years of age or older eligible as Senior Corps volunteers.
 
Provides, under the Senior Corps demonstration program, incentive matching grants to Senior Corps programs that exceed specified performance measures, enroll most of their volunteers in outcome-based service programs, and increase their enrollment of Baby Boomer volunteers.
 
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the number of AmeriCorps, VISTA, and NCCC participants should reach 100,000 by 2012.
 
Congressional Commission on Civic Service Act - Establishes a Congressional Commission on Civic Service to provide recommendations to Congress on improving opportunities for individuals to volunteer or perform national service.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Corporation should try to: (1) coordinate its service programs so that senior citizens and their grandchildren can share volunteer opportunities and/or be assigned to the same geographic area; and (2) work with the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide opportunities for young service participants to collect oral histories from senior citizens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-12
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 277 - 140 (Roll no. 131).
action_date: 2008-03-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-03-12
text: Failed of passage/not agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 277 - 140 (Roll no. 131).
action_date: 2008-03-12
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H1560-1561)
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5563.
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1468-1498; text of measure as introduced: CR H1468-1494)
action_date: 2008-03-11
text: Mr. Miller, George moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-03-10
text: Introduced in House