Congress 111 - HR 1154 - ACTION Act

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Corporation for National and Community Service Education Education programs funding Executive agency funding and structure Federal officials Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management Higher education Income tax exclusion Social work, volunteer service, charitable organizations Student aid and college costs

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AmeriCorps: Together Improving Our Nation Act or the ACTION Act - Amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to base the calculation of the amount of the national service educational award on the average cost of attending a four-year institution of higher education, rather than a portion of a veteran's basic educational assistance allowance.

Excludes the national service educational award from an individual's gross income for tax purposes.

Permits the Corporation for National and Community Service to support a national service program that is carried out by another federal agency and implements the priorities of such agency.

Makes Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation a Cabinet position. Raises the Officer's compensation to Level I of the Executive Schedule.

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Apr 22, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
Apr 22, 2009

Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
Feb 24, 2009

Referred to House Ways and Means
Feb 24, 2009

Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
Feb 24, 2009

Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 24, 2009

Referred to House Education and Labor
Feb 24, 2009

Introduced in House

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