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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Part III · Chapter 129 — National and Community Service

§ 12595. National service educational awards

Statutory text

(a)

Eligibility generally

A participant in a national service program carried out using assistance provided to an applicant under section 12571 of this title shall be eligible for the national service educational award described in division D if the participant—

(1)

serves in an approved national service position; and

(2)

satisfies the eligibility requirements specified in section 12602 of this title with respect to service in that approved national service position.

(b)

Special rule for VISTA volunteers

A VISTA volunteer who serves in an approved national service position shall be ineligible for a national service educational award if the VISTA volunteer accepts the stipend authorized under section 4955(a)(1) of this title.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. National and Community Service Act

    Pub. L. 101–610 title I § 141 · 104 Stat. 3127

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 12595

    (Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 141, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(b), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 814.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 141, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(b), Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 814.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 141. GENERAL AUTHORITY. The Commission may make grants under section 102 to States for the creation of full- and part-time national and community service programs.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 141 of Pub. L. 101–610 was classified to section 12571 of this title prior to the general amendment of subtitle D of title I of Pub. L. 101–610 [former part D of this subchapter] by Pub. L. 103–82, § 102(a).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective , see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as an Effective Date of 1993 Amendment note under section 1701 of Title 16, Conservation.

Credits

(Pub. L. 101–610, title I, § 141, as added Pub. L. 103–82, title I, § 101(b), , 107 Stat. 814.)

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