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HR 1388 - National Volunteer Program Expansion - National Key Vote
Phil Hare voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Read statements Phil Hare made in this general time period.
Timeline
- April 21, 2009 Executive Signed
- March 31, 2009 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- March 26, 2009 Senate Bill Passed
- March 18, 2009 House Bill Passed
- March 9, 2009 Introduced
Issues Related to HR 1388
Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - Became Public Law No. 111-13 - April 21, 2009
Title: National Volunteer Program Expansion
Legislation -
Concurrence Vote Passed
(House)
(275-149) -
March 31, 2009(Key vote)
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Title: National Volunteer Program Expansion
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to pass a bill that establishes national community service organizations and provides funding for community service organizations and projects.
- Authorizes funding to promote, operate, and expand service-learning programs in elementary and secondary schools through training, curriculum development, program assessment methods, and community outreach (Sec. 1201).
- Allows the Secretary of Education to designate up to 25 Campuses of Service, or institutions of higher education where service-learning is an important component of the curriculum to receive a government award to develop or disseminate service-learning models (Sec. 1203).
- Establishes Youth Engagement Zones to involve middle and high school students in community service, including Summer of Service programs (Sec. 1204).
- Expands AmeriCorps openings over 8 years, allowing for up to 250,000 AmeriCorps volunteers by fiscal year 2017 (Sec. 1301).
- Establishes the Education Corps to improve schools, the Healthy Futures Corps to serve unmet health needs within communities, the Clean Energy Corps to work on energy projects, the Veterans Corps to work with veterans and their families, and the Opportunity Corps to work with the economically disadvantaged (Sec. 1302).
- Raises the amount of the full-time national service educational award to the maximum amount of a Federal Pell Grant (Sec. 1404).
- Aims to increase the percentage of disadvantaged youths in the National Civilian Community Corps to over 50 percent by 2012 (Sec. 1503).
- Expands the National Civilian Community Corps' mission to include projects on energy conservation, environmental stewardship or conservation, infrastructure improvement, urban and rural development, or disaster preparedness needs (Sec. 1506).
- Establishes the Serve America Fellowship to assist with areas of national need, as determined by the State Commissions on National and Community Service (Sec. 1805, 1606).
- Establishes Silver Scholarships and Encore Fellowships and expands the Foster Grandparent Program, Senior Companion Program Grants, and the National Senior Service Corps to encourage community or national service among citizens age 55 and older (Secs. 1805, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145).
- Establishes the Social Innovation Fund, National Service Programs Clearinghouses, and Volunteer Generation Fund to help local groups train, develop, and maintain volunteers (Secs. 1807, 1808).
Legislation -
Bill Passed
With Amendment
(Senate)
(79-19) -
March 26, 2009(Key vote)
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Title: National Volunteer Program Expansion
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to pass a bill that establishes national community service organizations and provides funding for community service organizations and projects.
- Authorizes funding to promote, operate, and expand service-learning programs in elementary and secondary schools through training, curriculum development, program assessment methods, and community outreach (Sec. 1201).
- Allows the Secretary of Education to designate up to 25 Campuses of Service, or institutions of higher education where service-learning is an important component of the curriculum to receive a government award to develop or disseminate service-learning models (Sec. 1203).
- Establishes Youth Engagement Zones to involve middle and high school students in community service, including Summer of Service programs (Sec. 1204).
- Expands AmeriCorps openings over 8 years, allowing for up to 250,000 AmeriCorps volunteers by fiscal year 2017 (Sec. 1301).
- Establishes the Education Corps to improve schools, the Healthy Futures Corps to serve unmet health needs within communities, the Clean Energy Corps to work on energy projects, the Veterans Corps to work with veterans and their families, and the Opportunity Corps to work with the economically disadvantaged (Sec. 1302).
- Raises the amount of the full-time national service educational award to the maximum amount of a Federal Pell Grant (Sec. 1404).
- Aims to increase the percentage of disadvantaged youths in the National Civilian Community Corps to over 50 percent by 2012 (Sec. 1503).
- Expands the National Civilian Community Corps' mission to include projects on energy conservation, environmental stewardship or conservation, infrastructure improvement, urban and rural development, or disaster preparedness needs (Sec. 1506).
- Establishes the Serve America Fellowship to assist with areas of national need, as determined by the State Commissions on National and Community Service (Sec. 1805, 1606).
- Establishes Silver Scholarships and Encore Fellowships and expands the Foster Grandparent Program, Senior Companion Program Grants, and the National Senior Service Corps to encourage community or national service among citizens age 55 and older (Secs. 1805, 2142, 2143, 2144, 2145).
- Establishes the Social Innovation Fund, National Service Programs Clearinghouses, and Volunteer Generation Fund to help local groups train, develop, and maintain volunteers (Secs. 1807, 1808).
Legislation -
Bill Passed
(House)
(321-105) -
March 18, 2009(Key vote)
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Title: National Volunteer Program Expansion
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to pass a bill that establishes national community service organizations and provides funding for community service organizations and projects.
- Authorizes funding to promote, operate, and expand service-learning programs in elementary and secondary schools through training, curriculum development, program assessment methods, and community outreach (Sec. 1201).
- Allows the Secretary of Education to designate up to 25 Campuses of Service, or institutions of higher education where service-learning is an important component of the curriculum, to receive a government award to develop or disseminate service-learning models (Sec. 1202).
- Establishes Youth Engagement Zones to involve middle and high school students in community service, including Summer of Service programs (Sec. 1203).
- Establishes the Education Corps to improve schools, the Healthy Futures Corps to serve unmet health needs within communities, the Clean Energy Corps to address environmental needs, the Veterans Corps to work with veterans and their families, and the Opportunity Corps to work with the economically disadvantaged (Sec. 1302).
- Aims to increase the percentage of disadvantaged youths in the National Civilian Community Corps to over 50% by 2012 (Sec. 1503).
- Expands the National Civilian Community Corps' mission to include projects on energy conservation, environmental conservation, infrastructure improvement, urban and rural development, or disaster preparedness needs (Sec. 1506).
- Establishes State Commissions on National and Community Service to determine local need for community service programs (Sec. 1605).
- Creates a study of the E-Verify system to determine citizenship status (Sec. 1710).
- Establishes the Serve America Fellowship to assist with areas of national need, as determined by the State Commissions on National and Community Service (Sec. 1803).
- Establishes Silver Scholarships and expands the National Senior Service Corps to encourage community or national service among citizens 55 and older (Secs. 1803, 2203).
- Establishes the Innovative and Model Program Support, Social Innovation Fund and Volunteer Generation Fund to support non-profit, faith based and civic programs (Secs. 1803, 1822).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - March 9, 2009
Title: National Volunteer Program Expansion
Sponsors
- Carolyn McCarthy (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Jason Altmire (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert E. 'Rob' Andrews (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Madeleine Z. Bordallo (GU - D) (Out Of Office)
- Yvette D. Clarke (NY - D)
- Joseph D. 'Joe' Courtney (CT - D)
- Rosa L. DeLauro (CT - D)
- Steven L. 'Steve' Driehaus (OH - D) (Out Of Office)
- Chaka Fattah Sr. (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Raul M. Grijalva (AZ - D)
- Philip G. 'Phil' Hare (IL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Martin T. Heinrich (NM - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rubén E. Hinojosa Sr. (TX - D) (Out Of Office)
- Mazie K. Hirono (HI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Rush D. Holt Jr. (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (TX - D)
- Dale E. Kildee (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Ron Klein (FL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Dennis J. Kucinich (OH - D) (Out Of Office)
- Carolyn B. Maloney (NY - D)
- Doris O. Matsui (CA - D)
- James A. 'Jim' McDermott (WA - D) (Out Of Office)
- George Miller (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Donald M. Payne (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tom S. Perriello (VA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jared S. Polis (CO - D) (Out Of Office)
- David Eugene Price (NC - D)
- Charles B. 'Charlie' Rangel (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Gregorio Camacho 'Kilili' Sablan (MP - D)
- Joseph A. 'Joe' Sestak Jr. (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Carol Shea-Porter (NH - D) (Out Of Office)
- Betty Sutton (OH - D) (Out Of Office)
- Paul D. Tonko (NY - D)
- Christopher 'Chris' Van Hollen Jr. (MD - D) (Out Of Office)
- Peter F. Welch (VT - D)
- Lynn C. Woolsey (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- David Wu (OR - D) (Out Of Office)