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The bill preserves and strengthens federal support, participant protections, and oversight for AmeriCorps/Senior Corps—sustaining large-scale volunteer programs and demonstrated public value—while limiting future restructuring options and creating potential fiscal and administrative costs for taxpayers and the Corporation.
Volunteers, nonprofit partners, and communities: preserves federal support and the Corporation for National and Community Service as an independent entity, ensuring continuity of AmeriCorps/Senior Corps grants and programs that deliver large-scale volunteer capacity (over 1.2 billion volunteer hours valued at roughly $38B).
Taxpayers and nonprofit beneficiaries: recognizes AmeriCorps and Senior Corps service as a high-return federal investment (estimated $17.30 returned per $1 of federal tax investment), indicating efficient use of taxpayer funds.
AmeriCorps participants (students and young adults): protects participant benefits by requiring reforms so the National Service Trust can meet obligations to members, reducing risk to members' promised benefits.
Taxpayers and federal managers: constrains executive-branch flexibility to restructure, downsize, or privatize the Corporation, potentially preventing future efficiency reforms or policy-driven changes to how national service is delivered.
Taxpayers: formalizing protections for the Corporation and the National Service Trust may create political pressure to maintain or increase appropriations, raising long-term fiscal costs for taxpayers.
Corporation leadership and staff (and partner nonprofits): imposes an administrative burden by requiring repeated CEO certifications over five years, diverting time and resources from program delivery and grant administration.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Prohibits using appropriated federal funds to eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service’s government-corporation status and requires CEO certifications to Congress.
Introduced April 17, 2025 by Christina Houlahan · Last progress April 17, 2025
Prohibits using federal appropriations to eliminate the Corporation for National and Community Service’s status as a government corporation and requires the Corporation’s CEO to certify compliance to two congressional committees within 30 days of enactment and annually for five years. It also records congressional findings about the value and history of AmeriCorps and the Corporation and states that only an act of Congress may eliminate the Corporation’s government-corporation status under existing law. The bill preserves the federal role in supporting national service, protects the National Service Trust’s obligations to AmeriCorps participants, and increases congressional oversight by requiring certification reports from the Corporation’s CEO to specified committees.