Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part A · Chapter 66 — Domestic Volunteer Services
§ 4956. Participation of program beneficiaries
Statutory text
To the maximum extent practicable, the people of the communities to be served by volunteers under this subchapter shall participate in planning, developing, and implementing programs thereunder, and the Director, after consultation with sponsoring agencies (including volunteers assigned to them) and the people served by such agencies, shall establish in regulations, a continuing mechanism for the meaningful participation of such program beneficiaries.
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.
Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973
Pub. L. 93–113 title I § 106 · 87 Stat. 394
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4956
Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 398
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 398Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 106. participation’ of beneficiaries To the maximum extent practicable, the people of the communities to be served by volunteers under this title shall participate in planning, developing, and implementing programs thereunder, and the Director, after consultation with sponsoring agencies (including volunteers assigned to them) and the people served by such agencies, shall take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe, a continuing mechanism for the meaningful participation of such program beneficiaries.Pub. L. 98–288 § 7 · 98 Stat. 189
Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 4956
Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in regulations” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in regulations” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 7. participation of beneficiaries Section 106 of the Act is amended by striking out “take all 42 USC 4956. necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe” and insert in lieu thereof “establish in regulations”.
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1984—Pub. L. 98–288 substituted “establish in regulations” for “take all necessary steps to establish, in regulations he shall prescribe”.
Credits
1973–1984 · 2 acts
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(Pub. L. 93–113, title I, § 106, , 87 Stat. 398; Pub. L. 98–288, § 7, , 98 Stat. 191.)