H. Amdt. 962 - Amendment Established a Temporary Congressional Commission on Civic Service Within the Legislative Branch. The Commission Would Be Tasked with Making Recommendations to Congress About How to Improve Opportunities for Public Service.

To Reauthorize and Reform the National Service Laws.

H.R. 2857 — 110^th Congress (2007–2008)

Summary

The 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. (by CRS)

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Title

To reauthorize and reform the national service laws.

Other Titles

• Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act
• GIVE Act
• Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act
• GIVE Act

Sponsor

Carolyn McCarthy

Co-Sponsors

• Timothy H. Bishop
• Dennis J. Kucinich
• Raúl M. Grijalva
• Yvette D. Clarke
• Gregory W. Meeks
• Michael McNulty
• Jason Altmire
• Christopher Shays
• Rush Holt
• Linda T. Sánchez
• Dale E. Kildee
• Donald Payne
• Ron Klein
• Zoe Lofgren
• Doris O. Matsui
• Robert E. Andrews
• David Loebsack
• Joe Courtney
• John A. Yarmuth
• Phil Hare
• Joe Sestak
• Mazie K. Hirono
• Bob Etheridge
• Danny K. Davis
• David E. Price
• John P. Sarbanes
• William Jefferson
• Susan A. Davis
• Carol Shea-Porter
• Todd Russell Platts
• Rubén Hinojosa
• George Miller

Subjects

• Higher education
• Administrative remedies
• Aged
• Alaska
• Armed forces
• Authorization
• Black colleges
• Budgets
• Business
• Child health
• Children
• Citizenship education
• Colleges
• Communications
• Community and school
• Community development
• Compensatory education
• Computer literacy
• Conferences
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Corporation directors
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• Cost effectiveness
• Crime prevention
• Criminal justice
• Curricula
• Defense economics
• Depressed areas
• Disaster relief
• Dropouts
• Drug abuse
• Drug abuse treatment
• Economic policy
• Education
• Education of the disadvantaged
• Educational accountability
• Educational innovations
• Elementary and secondary education
• Elementary education
• Emergency management
• Emergency medicine
• Energy
• Energy conservation
• Engineering
• Environmental protection
• Evaluation research (Social action programs)
• Ex-offenders
• Executive departments
• Executive reorganization
• Families
• Family services
• Federal advisory bodies
• Federal aid to education
• Federal-territorial relations
• Finance
• Financial planning
• Financial services
• Foster home care
• Foundations
• Gifts
• Government corporations
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Government publicity
• Government service contracts
• Graduate education
• Grandparents
• Grievance procedures
• Health policy
• Hispanic Americans
• Indian education
• Indians
• Infrastructure
• Infrastructure (Economics)
• Inspectors general
• Job training
• Juvenile delinquency
• Labor
• Law
• Leadership
• Learning
• Literacy programs
• Mathematics
• Medical care
• Medicine
• Mental illness
• Mentoring
• Military base closures
• Minorities
• Minority education
• National service
• Nonprofit organizations
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Older workers
• Parent and child
• Parents
• Performance measurement
• Personal budgets
• Policy sciences
• Politics and government
• Public contracts
• Public health
• Recidivists
• Rehabilitation of criminals
• Rural affairs
• Rural economic development
• Rural health
• Salaries
• Scholarships
• School-age child care
• Science policy
• Scientific education
• Secondary education
• Service learning
• Social services
• State and local government
• Student employment
• Student loan funds
• Summer employment
• Technical education
• Technology
• Transportation
• Travel costs
• Urban affairs
• Urban economic development
• Veterans
• Veterans' benefits
• Volunteer workers
• Wages
• Welfare
• Youth services

Related Bills

• H.Res. 1015 (110^th) : Providing for Consideration of the Bill (H.R. 2857) to Reauthorize and Reform the National Service Laws.
• H.R. 5563 (110^th) : Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act

Major Actions

Introduced	6/26/2007
Referred to Committee
Amendments (11 proposed)

Bill History

• All Votes
• All Actions
• Amendments

	Chamber/Committee	Motion	Date	Result
select this vote	House	Amendment 10 to H.R. 2857	3/06/2008	This amendment DID NOT PASS the House 153 voted YES 260 voted NO 20 voted present/not voting
select this vote	House	Amendment 11 to H.R. 2857	3/06/2008	This amendment PASSED the House 252 voted YES 161 voted NO 20 voted present/not voting
select this vote	House	Table Appeal of the Ruling of the Chair: H.R. 2857 Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education “GIVE” Act	3/06/2008	This motion PASSED the House 221 voted YES 191 voted NO 15 voted present/not voting
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the McCarthy (NY) amendment (A001) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the McKeon amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the Matsui amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
currently selected	House	On agreeing to the McDermott amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the English (PA) amendment (A005) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the English (PA) amendment (A006) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the English (PA) amendment (A007) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the Sutton amendment (A008) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote
select this vote	House	On agreeing to the Sutton amendment (A009) Agreed to by voice vote.	3/07/2008	PASSED by voice vote

	Action	Date	Description
	Introduced	6/26/2007
		6/26/2007	Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
		6/27/2007	Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
	Put on a legislative calendar	6/27/2007	Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 44 - 0.
		9/11/2007	Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
		9/11/2007	Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities Discharged.
		11/01/2007	Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Education and Labor. H. Rept. 110-420.
	Put on a legislative calendar	11/01/2007	Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 265.
		3/05/2008	Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1015 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2857 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. A specified amendment is in order.
		3/06/2008	Rule H. Res. 1015 passed House.
		3/06/2008	Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 1015.
		3/06/2008	House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 1015 and Rule XVIII.
		3/06/2008	The Speaker designated the Honorable Ellen O. Tauscher to act as Chairwoman of the Committee.
		3/06/2008	Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 2857 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Specified amendments are in order.
		3/06/2008	GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2857.
		3/06/2008	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment, the Chair put the question on the adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Flake amendment until later in the legislative day.
		3/06/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Inslee amendment.
		3/06/2008	Amendment (A011) offered by Mr. Inslee.
		3/06/2008	POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Inslee amendment, the Chair put the question on the adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Platts demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the Inslee amendment until later in the legislative day.
		3/06/2008	Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2857 as unfinished business.
		3/06/2008	Considered as unfinished business.
		3/06/2008	The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
		3/06/2008	UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of amendments which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
		3/06/2008	The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2857.
		3/06/2008	The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
		3/06/2008	The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
		3/06/2008	Mr. Lungren, Daniel E. moved to recommit with instructions to Education and Labor.
		3/06/2008	DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Lungren motion to recommit with instructions, pending reservation of a point of order. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with a complete new text consisting of the bill H.R. 3773, as passed by the Senate.
		3/06/2008	Mr. Miller, George raised a point of order against the motion to recommit with instructions. Mr. Miller stated that the motion to recommit with instructions sought to insert non-germane material into the bill. Sustained by the Chair.
		3/06/2008	Mr. Lungren, Daniel E. appealed the ruling of the chair. The question was then put on sustaining the ruling of the chair.
		3/06/2008	Mr. Miller, George moved to table the motion to appeal the ruling of the chair
		3/06/2008	Mr. Kuhl (NY) moved to recommit with instructions to Education and Labor.
		3/06/2008	DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Kuhl motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment inserting a new section entitled Criminal History Checks.
		3/06/2008	Pursuant to section 2 of H. Res. 1015, the Chair announced that further proceedings on H.R. 2857 would be postponed.
select this vote	Vote	3/06/2008	Amendment 10 to H.R. 2857
select this vote	Vote	3/06/2008	Amendment 11 to H.R. 2857
select this vote	Vote	3/06/2008	Table Appeal of the Ruling of the Chair: H.R. 2857 Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education “GIVE” Act
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the McCarthy (NY) amendment.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A001) offered by Mrs. McCarthy (NY).
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the McCarthy (NY) amendment (A001) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A002) offered by Mr. McKeon.
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the McKeon amendment.
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Matsui amendment.
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the McKeon amendment (A002) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A003) offered by Ms. Matsui.
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the McDermott amendment.
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the Matsui amendment (A003) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A004) offered by Mr. McDermott.
currently selected	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the McDermott amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A005) offered by Mr. English (PA).
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the English amendment.
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the English (PA) amendment (A005) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A006) offered by Mr. English (PA).
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the English amendment.
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the English amendment.
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the English (PA) amendment (A006) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A007) offered by Mr. English (PA).
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the English (PA) amendment (A007) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A008) offered by Ms. Sutton.
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Sutton amendment.
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Sutton amendment.
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the Sutton amendment (A008) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A009) offered by Ms. Sutton.
		3/07/2008	DEBATE - Pusuant to the provisions of H. Res. 1015, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with ten minutes of debate on the Flake amendment.
select this vote	Vote	3/07/2008	On agreeing to the Sutton amendment (A009) Agreed to by voice vote.
		3/07/2008	Amendment (A010) offered by Mr. Flake.

	Number	Sponsor	Date Offered	Status
select this vote	H. Amdt. 959	McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY4]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Manager's amendment consists of the text of the amendment contained in House Report 110-539 and printed on pages H1376-H1380 in the Congressional Record for March 6, 2008. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 960	McKeon, Howard [R-CA25]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment to require the Corporation to establish priorities for programs funded under the national service laws that recruit veterans into service opportunities; promote community-based efforts to meet the needs of military families while a family member is deployed; and promote community-based efforts to meet the needs of military families when a member of the family returns from a deployment. The amendment also would require the Corporation to annually report to Congress on the number and percentage of national service positions eligible for the education award that are filled by veterans, and to establish annual goals for increasing those numbers and percentages. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 961	Matsui, Doris [D-CA6]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment integrated two competitive funding streams and improved collaboration between state and national entities. Show amendment details
currently selected	H. Amdt. 962	McDermott, Jim [D-WA7]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment established a temporary Congressional Commission on Civic Service within the Legislative Branch. The Commission would be tasked with making recommendations to Congress about how to improve opportunities for public service. Actions March 6, 2008, 11:21 pm ET - Amendment (A004) offered by Mr. McDermott. March 6, 2008, 11:27 pm ET - On agreeing to the McDermott amendment (A004) Agreed to by voice vote. Full Text of this Amendment The text of this amendment is not available.
select this vote	H. Amdt. 963	English, Philip [R-PA3]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment added a section at the end of bill stating that it is the Sense of Congress that the Corporation for National and Community Service should make the maximum effort possible to coordinate the recruiting and assignment procedures of their various programs to allow senior citizens and their grandchildren to share volunteer opportunities and/or be assigned to the same geographic areas during their period of service. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 964	English, Philip [R-PA3]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment added a section to the bill stating that it is the Sense of Congress that the Corporation for National and Community Service should make the maximum effort possible to coordinate with the National Endowment for the Humanities to provide opportunities for young people enrolled in NACS programs to collect oral histories from senior citizens in the communities where they serve. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 965	English, Philip [R-PA3]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment required the Board of Directors of the Corporation for National and Community Service to coordinate with veterans' organizations serving veterans with disabilities to provide opportunities for young people enrolled in existing NACS programs to serve as drivers in the DAV Transportation Network on a full-time, part-time, or as-needed basis. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 966	Sutton, Betty [D-OH13]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment required the Corporation for National and Community Service to consider whether an area has a mortgage foreclosure rate greater than the national average when considering applications from States and other eligible entities. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 967	Sutton, Betty [D-OH13]	March 6, 2008	Passed by voice vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment required the Corporation for National and Community Service to conduct a study to identify specific areas of need for displaced workers and how existing programs and activities carried out under the national service laws can better serve displaced workers and communities affected by plant closings and job losses. The amendment also would require the Corporation to develop and carry out a pilot program based on the findings of the study. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 968	Flake, Jeff [R-AZ]	March 6, 2008	Failed by roll call vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment sought to strike the "summer of service" grant program and reduce the authorized amount designated for the program. Show amendment details
select this vote	H. Amdt. 969	Inslee, Jay [D-WA1]	March 6, 2008	Passed by roll call vote on March 6, 2008.
	Amendment added an Energy Conservation Corps, which would seek to address the nation's energy and transportation infrastructure needs while providing work and service opportunities. Show amendment details