Inspired to Serve Act of 2025

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 5442 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5442 To build on America's spirit of service to nurture, promote, and expand a culture of service to secure the Nation's future, address critical needs of the Nation, and strengthen the civic fabric of American society. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 17, 2025 Mr. Panetta (for himself and Mr. Bacon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Ways and Means, Oversight and Government Reform, Veterans' Affairs, Homeland Security, Intelligence (Permanent Select), House Administration, the Judiciary, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To build on America's spirit of service to nurture, promote, and expand a culture of service to secure the Nation's future, address critical needs of the Nation, and strengthen the civic fabric of American society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Inspired to Serve Act of 2025''. SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. TITLE I--PRIORITIZATION OF CIVIC EDUCATION AND SERVICE LEARNING Sec. 101. Civic education fund. Sec. 102. Service-learning fund. Sec. 103. National civics assessment. Sec. 104. Excellence in civics award. Sec. 105. Development of material on civic education and effective citizenship. Sec. 106