Legislative Updates
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Congress Finalizes FY21 Funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service
Congress cleared a spending package for President Trump’s signature that will provide $900 billion to address the COVID-19 pandemic and fund all the federal agencies through the fiscal year ending on September 30, 2021. The FY21 spending bill provides the...
Read More »Senate Appropriations Committee Recommends $50M Increase for CNCS
The Republican leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee released a dozen fiscal year 2021 spending bills, including the Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations bill. The Labor-HHS bill includes nearly $1.2 billion for the Corporation for National and Community Service...
Read More »President Signs CR to Fund CNCS until Dec 11
President Trump signed a fiscal year 2021 continuing resolution (CR), a short-term spending bill that averts a government shutdown and funds the Corporation for National and Community Service into December. While the House of Representatives passed a FY21 Labor-HHS Appropriations...
Read More »House Passes Stimulus with $350M for CNCS
The House of Representatives passed H.R. 8406, the Heroes Act, a $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief and economic stimulus package that includes $350 million for the Corporation for National and Community Service. The legislation passed on a party line vote of...
Read More »House Appropriations Committee Increases Funding for CNCS by $50M
The House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal year 2021 Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations bill out of committee. In total, the bill would provide nearly $221 billion for the Labor-HHS-funded agencies and accounts, including $196.5 billion in regular discretionary...
Read More »The CORPS Act: Cultivating Opportunity and Response to the Pandemic through Service Act
The CORPS Act calls for strengthening and expanding AmeriCorps and Senior Corps to help our nation recover from COVID-19.
Read More »Pandemic Response and Opportunity Through National Service Act
The Pandemic Response and Opportunity Through National Service Act would dramatically expand national service in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
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