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[CITE: 42USC4971]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                 CHAPTER 66--DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICES
 
          SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL VOLUNTEER ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAMS
 
                    Part B--University Year for VISTA
 
Sec. 4971. Congressional statement of purpose

    (a) The purpose of this part is to assist students, through service-
learning and community service programs, to undertake volunteer service 
in such a way as to enhance the educational value of the service 
experience, through participation in activities that strengthen and 
supplement efforts to eliminate and alleviate poverty and poverty-
related problems. Its purpose further is to provide technical assistance 
and training to encourage other students and faculty to engage in 
volunteer service on a part-time, self-supporting basis, to meet the 
needs of the poor in the surrounding community through expansion of 
service-learning and community service programs and otherwise.
    (b) This part provides for the University Year for VISTA (UYV) 
program of full-time volunteer service by students enrolled in 
institutions of higher education. The purpose of the UYV program is to 
strengthen and supplement efforts to eliminate poverty and poverty-
related human, social, and environmental problems by enabling students 
at cooperating institutions to perform meaningful and constructive 
volunteer service in connection with the satisfaction of course-work 
while attending such institutions. Volunteer service under this part is 
conducted in agencies, institutions, and situations where the 
application of human talent and dedication may assist in the solution of 
poverty and poverty-related problems and secure and exploit 
opportunities for self-advancement by individuals experiencing such 
problems.

(Pub. L. 93-113, title I, Sec. 111, Oct. 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 399; Pub. L. 
98-288, Sec. 9, May 21, 1984, 98 Stat. 191; Pub. L. 99-551, Sec. 5, Oct. 
27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3073; Pub. L. 101-204, title II, Sec. 201(2), Dec. 
7, 1989, 103 Stat. 1813; Pub. L. 103-82, title III, Sec. 330(a)(2), (3), 
Sept. 21, 1993, 107 Stat. 902.)


                               Amendments

    1993--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 103-82 substituted ``University Year for 
VISTA (UYV)'' for ``University Year for ACTION (UYA)'' and ``purpose of 
the UYV'' for ``purpose of the UYA''.
    1989--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 101-204, which directed the amendment of 
the first sentence of subsec. (a) by inserting ``and community service'' 
after ``service-learning'' both places it appears, was executed by 
making the insertion once in each of the first and second sentences of 
subsec. (a), as the probable intent of Congress.
    1986--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99-551, Sec. 5(1), (2), designated 
existing provisions as subsec. (a) and struck out ``This part provides 
for the University Year for ACTION (UYA) program of full-time volunteer 
service by students enrolled in institutions of higher education, 
together with appropriate powers and responsibilities designed to assist 
in the development and coordination of such programs. The purpose of 
this part is to strengthen and supplement efforts to eliminate poverty 
and poverty-related human, social, and environmental problems by 
enabling students at such cooperating institutions to perform meaningful 
and constructive volunteer service in connection with the satisfaction 
of such students' course work during their periods of service while 
attending such institutions, in agencies, institutions, and situations 
where the application of human talent and dedication may assist in the 
solution of poverty and poverty-related problems and secure and exploit 
opportunities for self-advancement by persons afflicted with such 
problems.''
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 99-551, Sec. 5(3), added subsec. (b).
    1984--Pub. L. 98-288 inserted after first sentence ``The purpose of 
this part is to assist students, through service-learning programs, to 
undertake volunteer service in such a way as to enhance the educational 
value of the service experience, through participation in activities 
that strengthen and supplement efforts to eliminate and alleviate 
poverty and poverty-related problems.'' and substituted ``provide 
technical assistance and training to encourage other students and 
faculty to engage in volunteer service on a part-time, self-supporting 
basis, to meet the needs of the poor in the surrounding community 
through expansion of service-learning programs and otherwise'' for 
``encourage other students and faculty members to engage, on a part-
time, self-supporting basis, in such volunteer service and work along 
with volunteers serving under this part; and to promote participation by 
such institutions in meeting the needs of the poor in the surrounding 
community through expansion of service-learning programs and otherwise. 
Its purpose further is to provide for a program of part-time or short-
term service--learning by secondary and post-secondary school students 
to strengthen and supplement efforts to eliminate poverty and poverty-
related human, social, and environmental problems''.


                    Effective Date of 1993 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 103-82 effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 392 
of Pub. L. 103-82, set out as a note under section 4951 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 99-551 effective Oct. 1, 1986, except as 
otherwise provided, see section 11 of Pub. L. 99-551, set out as an 
Effective Date note under section 4950 of this title.
