Domestic Volunteer Service Amendments

Summary

Domestic Volunteer Service Amendments - Amends the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 to require VISTA volunteers with grievances to use the hearing procedures established by the Act. Makes authorized stipends for volunteers mandatory and increases the maximum stipend from $75.00 to $90.00 per month. Authorizes the payment of end-of-service stipends to a volunteer, his family, or his designate prior to the end of such service under circumstances determined by the Director of ACTION. Limits the amount of academic credit student volunteers may receive for their work for the University Year for ACTION program. States that service in such program shall be for not longer for one year. Declares that a volunteer shall not be made to forfeit the rights to any government assistance to which he is otherwise entitled by reason of service in any Federal volunteer antipoverty program and the fact that such person fails to seek or refuses to accept employment or training during the period of volunteer service. Sets the number of members of the National Voluntary Service Advisory Council at 15. Requires the Council to remain in existance until otherwise provided by law. Establishes under the Associate Director for Domestic and Anti-poverty Operations the Office of Voluntary Citizen Participation to encourage citizens to participate in planning, evaluating, and publicizing the availability of government programs. Declares employees of all full-time ACTION programs to be Federal employees for purposes of the Internal Revenue Code, Hatch, Social Security, and Federal Tort Claims Acts, and specified provisions of the United States Code relative to compensation of Federal employees. States that programs receiving services of ACTION volunteers shall be deemed to be receiving Federal financial assistance for purposes of equal employment opportunities provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 15 May 1978

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 6 April 1978

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