ACTION for National Service Act

America's Call To Improve Opportunities Now for National Service Act or the ACTION for National Service Act

This bill (1) converts the Corporation for National and Community Service into the National and Community Service Administration and revises its membership, leadership, and authority; (2) reauthorizes programs carried out by the administration; (3) establishes a National Service Foundation to accept and administer gifts on behalf of the administration; (4) modifies the calculation of national service educational awards; and (5) otherwise modifies provisions related to national and volunteer service programs.

Additionally, the bill

• creates a 21st Century American Service Outreach Program to notify individuals age 17 and not more than age 30 of opportunities to participate in and apply for such national and volunteer service programs;
• increases living stipends for such volunteers and the cap on such full-time positions;
• provides a living allowance to members of the National Civilian Community Corps, under specified conditions; and
• provides an exclusion from gross income, for income tax purposes, for such educational awards and living allowances.