State Commissions

(a) Exception for seniors programs Section 178(h) of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12638(h)) is amended by striking the period and inserting the following: “, unless— (1) such State Commission applies to be a sponsor for a project authorized under title II of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 5000 et seq.); or. (b) Natural disaster placement flexibility That section 178(h) is further amended by adding at the end the following: (2) a natural disaster has been declared in such State, as determined by the Governor, in which case such State Commission may direct up to 25 percent of its allotted funds under section 129(e) that remain unobligated on the date of the declaration, for recruitment of participants for disaster response from the period beginning on the date of the declaration and ending on the last day of the full fiscal year following the date of that declaration.. (c) Prevention of duplicative subgrant recipient review Section 185 of the National and Community Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12644b) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection (c); and (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following: (b) Rule of construction Nothing in subsection (a), including the authority to make a modification under subsection (a), shall be construed to enable the Corporation to duplicate due diligence processes already applied by primary grant recipients to their subgrant recipients, to enable the Corporation to apply those processes to the subgrant recipients. Primary grant recipients shall maintain sole responsibility over compliance of subgrant recipients with Federal regulations under this Act relating to due diligence processes..