Sec. 3. Corporation for National and Community Service

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Section 121 of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12571 ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by redesignating paragraphs

(1)and

(2)as subparagraphs

(A)and (B), respectively; by striking Subject to and inserting the following: Subject to ; and by adding at the end the following: Not less than 10 percent of the grant amounts awarded under subsection

(a)for a fiscal year, shall be awarded to carry out or support the national service programs described in subsection

(a)that carry out or support projects or activities in rural communities with not more than 20,000 individuals. ; and in subsection (e)(4)— by striking The Corporation and inserting the following: The Corporation ; and by adding at the end the following: The Corporation shall waive the requirements of paragraph

(1)with respect to a national service program in any fiscal year that carries out or supports projects or activities in rural communities with not more than 20,000 individuals. . Section 122(a)(2) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12572(a)(2) ) is amended— in subparagraph (B)— by redesignating clauses

(vii)through

(ix)as clauses

(viii)through (x), respectively; and by inserting after clause

(vi)the following: providing services designed to recruit and mentor young members of Native American and Alaska Native tribes prior to enrollment in postsecondary education to work in health professions, including nursing and mental health professions; ; and in subparagraph (C)— by striking or at the end of clause (v); by striking the period at the end of clause

(vi)and inserting ; or ; and by adding at the end the following: any additional local indicator relating to the recruitment and mentoring of health of Native American and Alaska Native tribal youth to work in health professions, that is approved by the Corporation, in consultation with the Director of the Indian Health Service. . The National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12603 ) is amended— in section 147(a) ( 42 U.S.C. 12603(a) )— by striking Except as provided and inserting the following: Except as provided ; by striking shall receive and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting the following: shall be entitled to receive a national service educational award equal to the amount described in paragraph (2). ; and by adding at the end the following: A national service educational award under paragraph

(1)payable to an individual described in such paragraph shall be equal to the lesser of— $21,970.46; or an amount equal to the in-State tuition to complete a program at a public institution of higher education in the State in which the individual is enrolled or accepted to be enrolled. There shall be available to the Corporation, from funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such funds as may be necessary to carry out this subsection for fiscal year 2018 and each succeeding fiscal year. ; and in section 501 ( 42 U.S.C. 12681 ), by adding at the end the following: There are authorized to be appropriated such additional sums as are necessary for the administration of this Act and the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 ( 42 U.S.C. 4950 et seq.), including the programs and activities, and functions of such Acts, and the goals described in paragraph (2). It is the sense of Congress that amounts appropriated under paragraph

(1)should be sufficient to provide or facilitate volunteer service opportunities and programs for not fewer than 250,000 volunteers in full-time national service per year before the end of the 5-year period beginning on the date of enactment of the 21st Century Community Service Expansion Act . . Section 177 of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 20 U.S.C. 12637 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: Under such regulations as the Office of Personnel Management may prescribe, an individual who has completed a satisfactory full term of service of not less 1,700 hours under any program under this Act shall be eligible for appointment in the Federal competitive service in the same manner as Peace Corps Volunteers as prescribed in Executive Order No. 11103. . Section 117 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (relating to qualified scholarships) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: Gross income shall not include any national service educational award described in subtitle D of title I of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12601 et seq.). . The amendment made by this subsection shall apply to taxable years ending after the date of the enactment of this Act.

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