(a) Authorizations
(1) Volunteers in Service to America There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out parts A and B of subchapter I of this chapter, excluding section
4959 of this title, $56,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.
(2) Literacy activities There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out section
4959 of this title, $5,600,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.
(3) Special volunteer programs There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out part C of subchapter I of this chapter, excluding section
49951 of this title, such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1996.
(4) Literacy challenge grants There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out section
49951 of this title, such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1994 through 1996.
(5) Specification of budget function
The authorizations of appropriations contained in this subsection shall be considered to be a component of budget function 500 as used by the Office of Management and Budget to cover education, training, employment, and social services, and, as such, shall be considered to be related to the programs of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education for budgetary purposes.
(b) Subsistence The minimum level of an allowance for subsistence required under section
4955 (b)(2) of this title, to be provided to each volunteer under subchapter I of this chapter, may not be reduced or limited in order to provide for an increase in the number of volunteer service years under part A of subchapter I of this chapter.
(e) Volunteer service requirement
(1) Volunteer service years Of the amounts appropriated under this section for parts A, B, and C of subchapter I of this chapter, including section
4995 of this title, there shall first be available for part A of subchapter I of this chapter, including sections
4954 (e) and
4959 of this title, an amount not less than the amount necessary to provide 3,700 volunteer service years in fiscal year 1994, 4,000 volunteer service years in fiscal year 1995, and 4,500 volunteer service years in fiscal year 1996.
(2) Plan
If the Director determines that funds appropriated to carry out part A, B, or C of subchapter I of this chapter are insufficient to provide for the years of volunteer service required by paragraph (1), the Director shall submit a plan to the relevant authorizing and appropriations committees of Congress that will detail what is necessary to fully meet this requirement.
