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HAMDT 227 (103rd)

An amendment comprised of ten amendments offered en bloc to extend the period of time within which a national service participant must use his or her educational award from five years to seven years after service is completed; to add to the list of the types of programs eligible for assistance under the bill programs that seek to eliminate hunger in communities and rural areas; to specify that the agencies that would be responsible for establishing the Urban Youth Corps would be the Transportation Department and the Housing and Urban Affairs Department; to prohibit the Corporation for National Service, or its Chairperson, from allocating, expending, or transferring to any other federal agency funds made available under this act for construction, repairs, or capital improvement without the prior concurrence of the House Public Works and Transportation Committee and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee; to prohibit the corporation or its chairperson from entering into a lease for real property or from disposing of surplus real property without such prior concurrence of the two aforementioned committees; to require the Board of the Corporation for National Service to review programs or projects conducted or funded by the Corporation in order to improve the coordination between the national service programs and othe. federal programs dealing with those who participate in the communities that benefit from national service activities; to include among the programs of national significance under the Retired and Senior Volunteer programs, programs that provide health, education, and welfare services that augment the services provided by state and local agencies; to provide that no funds may be made available under the bill to any entity that does not certify that all its employees are authorized to work in the United States; to enforce the "Made in America" labeling provisions; to implement the "Buy American" provisions; to authorize the Public Lands Corps to carry out appropriate projects on all federal and non-federal lands as part of a disaster prevention or relief efforts in response to an emergency or major disaster declared by the President; to provide that no leave provided under the Family and Medical Leave Act may be counted towards civil service retirement; and to provide that no action involving the obligation or expenditure of funds under a national service law may be taken until the Corporation for National Service has sufficient appropriations available to satisfy that obligation or expenditure.

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