Protect National Service Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2933 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2933

To prohibit the use of funds to eliminate the Corporation for National 
                         and Community Service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 17, 2025

 Ms. Houlahan introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                  Committee on Education and Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the use of funds to eliminate the Corporation for National 
                         and Community Service.

    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 ``Protect National Service Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) A recent study from Voices for National Service found 
        that every $1 in Federal taxes invested in AmeriCorps and 
        Senior Corps returns $17.30 to society.
            (2) Over the last 30 years, more than 900,000 Americans 
        have served as AmeriCorps members, contributing more than 
        1,200,000,000 hours of service to their communities and 
        accounting for a value of more than $38,000,000,000 across 
        every United States State and United States Territory.
            (3) The statute first authorizing the agency, and 
        subsequent reform efforts, have received strong bipartisan 
        support over multiple decades, including from Presidential 
        administrations of both parties.
    (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) any reform or reorganization of the Corporation for 
        National and Community Service should be done--
                    (A) in accordance with existing laws;
                    (B) in a manner that maintains the United States 
                support for national service;
                    (C) in a manner that allows the National Service 
                Trust to continue to meet all of its obligations to 
                participants in AmeriCorps; and
                    (D) in a manner that maintains the Federal 
                Government's active role in meeting unmet human, 
                educational, environmental, and public safety needs, as 
                well as in renewing the ethic of civic responsibility 
                by encouraging citizens to participate in national 
                service programs; and
            (2) only an act of Congress can eliminate the Corporation 
        for National and Community Service as a Government corporation, 
        as defined in section 103 of title 5, United States Code.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF FUNDS TO ELIMINATE THE CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL 
              AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

    (a) In General.--Consistent with section 1413 of the Omnibus 
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1999 (22 
U.S.C. 6563), no Federal funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
by the American Relief Act, 2025 (Public Law 118-158) or any other or 
prior appropriations Act may be made available to eliminate the status 
of the Corporation for National and Community Service as a Government 
corporation, as defined in section 103 of title 5, United States Code.
    (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
construed to indicate that the elimination, dismantlement, or 
subsummation of the Corporation for National and Community Service is 
permissible under existing law.
    (c) Certification.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this act, and annually for 5 years thereafter, the Chief 
Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service 
shall certify to the appropriate Committees compliance with this 
section.
    (d) Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined.--In this section, 
the term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means--
            (1) the Committee on Education and Workforce of the House 
        of Representatives; and
            (2) the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
        of the Senate.
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