3.0.0 3487 2022-02-03T05:08:45Z 2022-02-03T05:08:45Z Senate S S 2008-09-12 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-09-12T17:05:41Z 2008-09-12 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8482-8498) IntroReferral 2008-09-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE N H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2008-09-12 True O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL 2008-09-12 True M000303 Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ] JOHN MCCAIN R AZ SIDNEY 2008-09-12 True D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN 2008-09-12 True C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2008-09-12 True C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2008-09-12 True K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2008-09-22 False C001057 Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN] Norm Coleman R MN 2008-09-22 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2008-09-22 False S001142 Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR] GORDON SMITH R OR H. 2008-09-22 False W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2008-09-22 False G000445 Sen. Gregg, Judd [R-NH] Judd Gregg R NH 2008-09-24 False M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2008-09-24 False S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2008-09-26 False W000437 Sen. Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] Roger Wicker R MS F. 2008-09-26 False M000702 Sen. Mikulski, Barbara A. [D-MD] BARBARA MIKULSKI D MD ANN 2008-10-01 False L000035 Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR] BLANCHE LINCOLN D AR LAMBERT 2008-10-01 False C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2008-10-02 False R000146 Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV] HARRY REID D NV M. 2008-11-19 False R000361 Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] JAY ROCKEFELLER D WV 2008-11-19 False Social Welfare AIDS (Disease) Academic performance Access to health care Agriculture and Food Americans in foreign countries Armed Forces and National Security Charities Child health Church and social problems Citizen participation Colleges Community and school Community organization Compensatory education Conferences Congress Congressional reporting requirements Data banks Depressed areas Developing countries Disaster relief Dropouts Economics and Public Finance Education Education of the disadvantaged Educational accountability Elementary and secondary education Elementary education Emergency Management Energy Energy conservation Energy efficiency Entrepreneurs Environmental Protection Families Federal advisory bodies Federal aid to Indians Federal aid to education Government Operations and Politics Government and business Government paperwork Government publicity Governmental investigations Grandparents Grants-in-aid Health Health education Higher education Home repair and improvement Housing and Community Development Human immunodeficiency viruses Hunger Information technology International Affairs Job hunting Labor and Employment Low-income housing Malaria Malnutrition Medically uninsured Mentoring Minorities National parks National service Native Americans Nonprofit organizations Older workers Parks Personal budgets Potable water Poverty Preventive medicine Public Lands and Natural Resources Public-private partnerships Recycling of waste products Refuse and refuse disposal Religion Rivers Scholarships Science, Technology, Communications Secondary education Service learning Sports and Recreation State parks Sustainable development Technical assistance Trails Translating and interpreting Tuberculosis Veterans' benefits Veterans' employment Volunteer workers Wages Water Resources Development Water pollution control Women Women's education Women's employment Social Welfare 00 2008-09-12 Introduced in Senate 2008-09-29T20:32:47Z Serve America Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to create two new service-learning programs: (1) a Youth Engagement Zones to Strengthen Communities program, providing competitive grants to partnerships between local educational agencies that serve high-need, low-income communities and certain community-based or state entities to engage students and out-of-school youth in service-learning addressing specific challenges faced by their communities; and (2) a Campus of Service program, which annually grants up to 30 institutions of higher education (IHEs) with exemplary service-learning programs the funds to assist their students' pursuit of public service careers, and the right to nominate additional individuals for ServeAmerica Fellowships.

Directs the Corporation for National and Community Service (Corporation) to contract for a 10-year, longitudinal service-learning impact study.

Establishes the Commission on Cross-Sector Solutions to America's Problems to study ways in which the federal government and businesses can more effectively collaborate with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to address pressing national and local challenges.

Creates a Community Solutions Funds Pilot program awarding competitive matching grants to grantmaking institutions or partnerships between such institutions and state or local governmental entities which will use the grants to provide competitive matching subgrants to community organizations for use in replicating or expanding proven solutions to specifically identified community challenges.

Establishes an Innovation Fellowships Pilot program awarding competitive grants to individuals who are veterans, or have completed at least one period of national service, to establish innovative nonprofit organizations that address national and local challenges.

Creates a ServeAmerica Corps program providing formula grants to states and awarding competitive grants to states and nonprofit organizations to fund national service in low-income communities by: (1) Clean Energy Service Corps that improve certain clean energy indicators, including energy efficiency and conservation measures; (2) Education Corps that improve certain education indicators, including student engagement, achievement, and graduation; (3) Healthy Futures Corps that improve certain health indicators, including health care access; (4) Opportunity Corps that improve certain opportunity indicators, including financial literacy and access to housing, and employment-related services; and (5) Encore programs designed to take advantage of the skills of participants age 50 and older. Creates additional incentives for national service participation by individuals age 50 and older.

Makes ServeAmerica Corps participants eligible for national service educational awards.

Directs the Corporation to create a Civic Health Index enabling states and communities to assess their civic health.

Establishes the ServeAmerica and Encore Fellowships program providing ServeAmerica Fellowships to IHE-nominated individuals and Encore Fellowships to individuals age 50 or older who agree to be placed with nonprofit organizations to carry out projects in specified areas of national need. Makes ServeAmerica fellows eligible for national service educational awards.

Creates a Volunteer Generation Fund program awarding competitive matching grants to states and nonprofit organizations to increase the availability and capacity of volunteers to address state priorities with regard to areas of national need or work with nonprofit civic entities, including faith-based organizations, to address such needs.

Establishes a National Service Reserve Corps of individuals who have completed a term of national service to respond to national disasters and other emergencies.

Directs the Corporation, within 180 days of this Act's enactment, to conduct a nationwide Call to Service Campaign.

Requires the Office of Volunteers for Prosperity (VfP) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement a VfPServe program providing skilled professionals with fixed-amount stipends to offset their costs of volunteering abroad to address specified VfP objectives aimed at ameliorating living conditions in developing countries.

]]> Serve America Act Short Titles as Introduced Serve America Act Display Title Serve America Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to expand and improve opportunities for service, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2008-09-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3487is/xml/BILLS-110s3487is.xml 2008-09-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8482-8498) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.