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This bill, known as the National Service GI Bill Act, proposes several key provisions: 1. It requires states that receive federal higher education assistance to offer in-state tuition rates to individuals who have served in an approved national service position (such as AmeriCorps) for at least 1,700 hours within a year. This provision aims to make higher education more accessible for national service volunteers. 2. It amends the National and Community Service Act of 1990 to require states and their subdivisions seeking federal assistance to implement programs that encourage students from middle school onwards to consider military, national service, or public service career paths, and to register their intent to pursue such programs upon high school graduation. 3. It increases the educational award amount for full-time national service participants to be twice the national average of annual tuition and fees at 2-year institutions of higher education. 4. It provides non-competitive hiring authority, allowing individuals who have completed a term of national service to be appointed to the competitive civil service in a similar manner as former Peace Corps volunteers. 5. It excludes national service educational awards and the discharge of student loan debt related to such awards from an individual's taxable gross income. The overall purpose of this bill is to incentivize and support national service programs, such as AmeriCorps, by making higher education more accessible and providing various benefits for participants.

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